The back story
How Moscow eats
From the candlelit library of Café Pushkin to the glass dome of White Rabbit, from the Metropol’s Savva to the Dr. Zhivago grand café, Moscow dines in style.
Moscow’s great restaurants are theatre. Café Pushkin on Tverskoy Boulevard serves Russian cooking in a 19th-century-style mansion round the clock; next door, Turandot is a palace of Chinese cooking. White Rabbit sits under a glass dome on the 16th floor at Smolenskaya Square, Savva cooks in the Hotel Metropol, and the Grand Café Dr. Zhivago, in the Hotel National, makes the Russian classics, from syrniki to pelmeni, its own.
The grand rooms
Café Pushkin and Turandot on Tverskoy Boulevard, and Savva in the Hotel Metropol.
With a view
White Rabbit, on the 16th floor at Smolenskaya Square 3, under its glass dome.
Russian classics
The Grand Café Dr. Zhivago in the Hotel National, and Café Pushkin.
Book the big names ahead, especially on Friday and Saturday nights.
Our advice: try blini, pelmeni and borscht at least once, and leave room for medovik, the honey cake.
Why it's on our list
- The grand rooms
- With a view
- Russian classics
Location
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More in depth
The back storyRussian CuisineBorscht and shchi, pelmeni and pirozhki, blini with sour cream or caviar, syrniki for breakfast, olivier salad at New Year and medovik for afters: the dishes of Moscow, and where to taste them.
The back storyThe grand hotels of MoscowThe Metropol and the National face the Kremlin and the Bolshoi, The Carlton looks down Tverskaya, the Savoy hides on Rozhdestvenka and the Hotel Ukraina rises over the river. Here is where to stay, district by district.
The back storyRed Square and the KremlinThe Kremlin’s cathedrals and the Armoury, St Basil’s and Red Square, GUM and the State Historical Museum: the heart of Moscow, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.