Delicatessen

Top choice in Moscow


The affable and chatty owners of this place travel the world and experiment with the menu a lot, turning burgers, pizzas and pasta into artfully constructed objects of modern culinary art. The other source of joy is a cabinet filled with bottles of ripening fruity liquors, which may destroy your budget if consumed uncontrollably (a pointless warning, we know).

The latter asset brought Delicatessen into the World's Top 50 Bars list – entering at number 50 and climbing to number 41 in 2016. Go through the archway next to Shokoladnitsa cafe, turn left and look for a green door on your right. The sign above it reads: ‘Thank you for finding us’.


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