Café restaurants in Russia
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Beige Cafe
Beige might sound boring, but subtle lines and soft colours render this romantic cafe anything but. The setting is so sensual due in part to the circular room, arched doorways and rounded ceilings. The lack of sharp angles is cosy and comfortable, but still sophisticated. Dine on grilled fish and steaks, pasta, soup and salad, with an emphasis on fresh vegetables - this place is a great find for the health conscious.
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Kafe Natalya
Cosy, with quiet good taste, this is by far Gorno-Altaisk’s nicest café. Delicious daily specials are displayed in the heated cabinet making point-and-pick an easy option. Omelettes (from R40) make a good breakfast.
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U Tyoshi Na Blinakh
‘Auntie’s pancakes’ are being served up in so many locations now that it’s a wonder she’s not dropped dead yet. This cafeteria-style chain is a great place to fill up quickly and cheaply. Besides the tired-looking bliny, you can also sample hot soups, fresh salads and a variety of tasty pre-prepared mains. There are branches at: U Tyoshi na Blinakh; Historic Heart (Malaya Morskaya ul 4/1); Vosstaniya (Zagorodny pr 18; Vladimirskaya); Petrograd Side (Sytninskaya ul 16; Gorkov-skaya)
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Coffee Mania
With all of Moscow’s opportunities for high stepping, fine dining and big spending, where is the most popular place for the rich and famous to congregate? Can you believe it’s somewhere called Coffee Mania? The friendly, informal café is beloved for its homemade soups, freshly squeezed juices and steaming cappuccinos, not to mention its summer terrace overlooking the leafy courtyard of the conservatory. There are additional outlets near Kuznetsky Most and Kudrinskaya pl.
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Veranda U Dachi
Arkady Novikov’s unassuming Veranda u Dachi has been dubbed ‘a love letter to one’s home’. The well-worn rugs and slightly shabby furniture do not exactly jive with the fusion menu, which features Asian and Italian specialities at soaring prices. Nonetheless the cosy café and the adjoining art gallery are eternally popular spots among local residents.
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Pushkin Konditerskaya
If you want to impress your date, but you can’t afford the Café Pushkin for dinner, head next door to the konditerskaya (confectioner) for dessert. It’s every bit as opulent as the restaurant, from the crystal chandeliers down to the marble floors, with plenty of embellishments in between (not the least of which is the glass case displaying the sweets).
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Dieteticheskoe Café
This cosy cafeé and restaurant makes a lovely spot for a light meal or a drink in the evenings. Dishes include spaghetti, small sandwiches, goulash and zhorenaya riba (smoked fish). As is usual in Russian restaurants, the portions are small, but they are cheap enough so that you can order a few courses without having to run to the ATM.
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Delis
You might go in just for the rich, dark and addictive coffee; and who could blame you. But once you spot the salads and pastries, you're likely to stay a while. The menu also features a few simple mains - grilled salmon, tiger shrimp in garlic and lemon sauce etc. Fresh ingredients guarantee delicious results, as promised by the name.
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Van Gogh
The menu requires some deciphering, as all the choices are named after technical terms and geographic landmarks from the life of the artist. Once you figure it out, the soups, salads and pastas are excellent and innovative. This funky café livens up on Friday and Saturday nights, with local bands and free-flowing drinks.
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Gogol-Mogol
The front door is painted with a cake recipe in French, which should give you a pretty good idea of what you are getting into. There are a few lunch items on the menu, but this is really a place to come to indulge in rich French pastries and sweet drinks such as the namesake Gogol-Mogol (which is like egg-nog but it rhymes).
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Kafe Kolobok
When your budget’s stretched and stomach’s empty, no one does it like Kolo. A newer take on the old stolovaya. Freshly made dishes such as bliny, chicken or sausage meals, plus the happy breakfast bowls of kasha (porridge; R29) are shown in a removable-slot board by the serving line.
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Coffee Bean in Chistye Prudy
One could claim that Coffee Bean started the coffee thing in Moscow, as the original outlet on Tverskaya has been around for years. It's still the coolest cafe in the city, with high ceilings, fantastic architectural details and large windows looking out onto the main drag. It's the rare place that does not allow smoking.
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Coffee Bean in Zamoskvorechie
One could claim that Coffee Bean started the coffee thing in Moscow, as the original outlet on Tverskaya has been around for years. It's still the coolest cafe in the city, with high ceilings, fantastic architectural details and large windows looking out onto the main drag. It's the rare place that does not allow smoking.
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Le Gateau at Pushkin Square
This French cafe feels more European than its counterparts, with dark leather furniture and richly coloured walls. The attempt to bring Paris to Moscow carries over to the menu, which features dark coffee and fresh croissants. This is a charming place for breakfast, lunch or your daily dose of caffeine, any time of day.
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Le Gateau in Barrikadnaya
This French cafe feels more European than its counterparts, with dark leather furniture and richly coloured walls. The attempt to bring Paris to Moscow carries over to the menu, which features dark coffee and fresh croissants. This is a charming place for breakfast, lunch or your daily dose of caffeine, any time of day.
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Le Gateau in Paveletskaya
This French cafe feels more European than its counterparts, with dark leather furniture and richly coloured walls. The attempt to bring Paris to Moscow carries over to the menu, which features dark coffee and fresh croissants. This is a charming place for breakfast, lunch or your daily dose of caffeine, any time of day.
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Le Gateau in Tsvetnoy Bulvar
This French cafe feels more European than its counterparts, with dark leather furniture and richly coloured walls. The attempt to bring Paris to Moscow carries over to the menu, which features dark coffee and fresh croissants. This is a charming place for breakfast, lunch or your daily dose of caffeine, any time of day.
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Coffee Bean
One could claim that Coffee Bean started the coffee thing in Moscow, as the original outlet on Tverskaya ul has been around for years. It’s still one of the coolest cafés in the city, with high ceilings, fantastic architectural details and large windows looking out onto the main drag.
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Cafe Margarita
With walls lined with bookshelves, and a location opposite Patriarch’s Ponds, this offbeat café is popular with a well-read, young crowd. These bookworms are pretty quiet during the day, but the place livens up in the evening, when it often hosts live acoustic, folk and jazz music.
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Le Café Valida
'Coffee…like Art' reads the menu at Le Café Valida. Coffee is not the only thing that is artistic at this trendy place: a DJ works the wax in the midst of funky, modern décor, and Perm's fashionable set nibble on creative salads and snacks while checking each other out.
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Terrasa Kafe
The Luch entertainment complex contains several eateries, including fast food, fine Russian cuisine and notably the airy glassed-in Tererasa. Enjoy fine views across pl Lenina. Menus range from Japanese to Uzbek and there’s a remarkably filling R150 lunch deal, available daily.
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Roga & Kopyta
Step off the 18th-century streets into the ‘Horn & Hoof’ coffee shop that also harks back to eras past. Wrought-iron furniture and B&W photos set the atmosphere. The menu has a good selection of soups, salads and main dishes, besides pastries and coffee drinks.
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Cafe Botik
This waterfront café (shaped like a boat) is in a prime location opposite the Botik Museum. Stop here for lake views and lunch before or after your excursion. Or come for the full afternoon and take advantage of the beach access, billiards and the banya (bathhouse).
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Mon Café
The hot-to-trot clientele is the decor at this otherwise minimalist French café north of the Mayakovskaya metro. The vaguely European fare is tasty, if overpriced. Don a short skirt or black shirt and take a seat on the upper level for the best view of the activity below.
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Montana Coffee at Paveletskaya
Formerly Zen Coffee, this place offers breakfast and business lunch, besides the double espresso decaf cappuccinos. It is physically impossible to do a serious stroll of the trendy pedestrian strip on Kamergersky pereulok without stopping to sip a drink at this outlet.
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