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The Year in Food

Moscow’s restaurant scene continued to grow at a rapid rate over the course of the year, with hundreds of new restaurants springing up around town. To help keep track of the bewildering selection of new eateries that have opened in the last 12 months, the Winter Guide has compiled a list of noteworthy additions to the capital’s culinary compendium.

The very start of the year saw the opening of Gorki on 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya Ulitsa. The restaurant follows the now-fading trend in retro-Soviet restaurants that offer a classical throwback menu and interior. Seafood restaurant La Maree’s appearance was also one of the last in a skein of similar seafood restaurant openings around town.

One trend that gathered steam during the year was the democratization of the restaurant market combined with the growing popularity of restaurant chains. RosBusinessConsulting places the yearly growth of the inexpensive eateries segment at 20 percent and predicts that this tempo would be sustained for at least three to five years. Meanwhile, the Finam investment company’s research showed that the upmarket segment has been oversaturated, resulting in the number of fine-dining establishments in Moscow falling by some 5 percent to approximately 160. Reflecting this trend, RP-Com restaurant-management company unveiled a strategy of repositioning its upmarket eateries toward the middle-class market. As a part of this drive, RP-Com closed its upscale restaurants Beluga and Borgo, with Borgo being reinvented as the more family-friendly Pasta della Mamma. Summing up the trend was the restaurant Snobs’ reincarnation as the eatery Casual.

Meanwhile, chains became increasingly popular with both restaurateurs and the dining public alike. The expat-pleasing Correa’s added a second, larger venue in the Zamoskvorechye area. Both the Viaggio and the Pasta Project chains appeared, offering pasta dishes at affordable prices. Da Cicco added a third venue serving its inexpensive Italian cuisine. Ukrainian restaurant Khutorok added an outlet on Leningradsky Prospekt and lovers of micro-brewed beer were rewarded with the opening of one more branch of the brewery-restaurant chain Durdin.

Besides the countless sushi bars that continued to open around town, other Asian cuisines continued to make inroads, with Chinese chain Pekinskaya Utka opening a new branch out on Rublyovskoye Shosse and upmarket Tan opening downtown at Mayakovskaya. But the Asian sensation that took the capital by storm this year would have to be Thai cuisine. It not only made appearances on the menus of numerous Chinese restaurants such as Pekinskaya Utka, Dzhun Go and Tan, but also played the starring role at a range of new Thai restaurants, including Indokitai (which later merged with the Italian restaurant Carpaccio), Taisky Slon, Om Cafe and finally the highly regarded and highly expensive Blue Elephant.

Other notable developments included the opening of two high-altitude bar/restaurants — the Sky Lounge on the 22nd floor atop the Academy of Sciences building just off Gagarin Square in the south, and City Space (pictured above), with its 360-degree panoramic views from 140 meters up on the top of Swissotel Krasnye Holmy hotel near Paveletsky Station. For those with a more terrestrial budget, the area around Ulitsa Timura Frunze has started to resemble a small slice of the East Village with the opening of Suzy Wong right next door to Keks and the even more recent opening of Vodka Bar one block back on Ulitsa Lva Tolstogo.

Blue Elephant

31 Novinsky Bulvar, (Novinsky Passazh complex) (M. Smolenskaya)

580-7756,

Carpaccio

42 Ul. Ostozhenka (M. Park Kultury)

246-0433, 11am-midnight

Casual

3 1st Obydensky Per. (M. Kropotkinskaya)

775-2310, 11am-last customer.

City Space

52 Kosmodamianskaya Nab., Building 6 (M. Paveletskaya)

787-9800, 5pm-2am

Correa’s

32 Bolshaya Gruzinskaya Ul., Building 1 (M. Barrikadnaya)

933-4684, 8am-10pm, Sat. & Sun. 9am-10pm

Correa’s

40 Ul. Bolshaya Ordynka, Building 2 (M. Polyanka / Tretyakovskaya)

725-5878, weekdays 8am-midnight, weekends 9am-midnight, kitchen open until 10:30pm

Da Cicco

13/12 Profsoyuznaya Ul. (M. Profsoyuznaya)

125-1196, noon-11pm, Sun. noon-midnight

Da Cicco

3 Banny Per. (M. Prospekt Mira)

786-8646, 11am-midnight.

Durdin

80 Leningradsky Prospekt (M. Sokol)

780-5435, noon-midnight

Durdin

56 Ul. Bolshaya Polyanka (M. Polyanka)

953-5200, noon-midnight

Durdin

4a Volgogradsky Prospekt (M. Proletarskaya)

780-0139, noon-midnight.

Dzhun Go

24/2 Tverskaya Ul. (M. Mayakovskaya)

755-8403, noon-midnight

Gorki

3 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya Ul., Building 1, Corpus 1 (M. Mayakovskaya)

noon-midnight

Indokitai

42 Ul. Ostozhenka (M. Park Kultury)

246-0433, 11am-midnight

Keks

11 Ul. Timura Frunze (M. Park Kultury)

246-0864, 11am-last customer

La Maree

28 Ul. Petrovka (M. Pushkinskaya)

200-0930, noon-midnight

Om Cafe

15 Ul. Novy Arbat, Building 1 (M. Arbatskaya)

202-1582, 11am-midnight

Pasta della Mamma

12/9 Spiridonyevsky Per. (M. Pushkinskaya)

730-5600, noon-midnight

Pasta Project

1 Ul. Pokrovka (M. Kitai-Gorod)

928-6767, 8:30am-11:30pm, Sat. & Sun. 10am-11:30pm

Pasta Project

22 Verkhnyaya Radishchevskaya Ul. (M. Taganskaya)

915-1048, 9am-11:30pm, Sat. & Sun. 11:30am-1:30am

Pekinskaya Utka

24 Tverskaya Ul. (M. Mayakovskaya)

755-8401, 11am-midnight

Sky Lounge

32a Leninsky Prospekt (M. Leninsky Prospekt)

938-5104, Fri. & Sat. 24 hours, Sun.-Thu. until last guest.

Suzy Wong

11 Ul. Timura Frunze (M. Park Kultury)

245-4849, noon-last guest.

Taisky Slon

25 Khoroshyovskoye Shosse (M. Polezhayevskaya)

974-8401, noon-last customer.

Tan

13 Oruzheiny Per., Building 1 (M. Mayakovskaya)

726-8133, 251-0877, noon-midnight.

Viaggio

9/1 Bolshoi Spasoglinishchevsky Per., Corpus 16 (M. Kitai Gorod)

923-9723, 11am-midnight.

Viaggio

26-30 Bakuninskaya Ul., Building 1 (M. Baumanskaya)

223-3075, noon-11pm.

Vodka Bar

18b Ul. Lva Tolstogo (M. Park Kultury)

246-9669, noon-last guest





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