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Moscow is getting more and more restaurants, from grand luxurious restaurants with long intimidating menus to more modest ones with cuisines from all over the world. Now Moscow has more and more good restaurants for budget-minded people. Of course they are less glamorous but nevertheless their cuisines are mostly good and prices are much lower. In most of such restaurants you can have a good lunch for 12-25 dollars per person without vine.
| Whether you stay at Holliday-Inn Hotel, or Marriott-Tverskaya Hotel, or Marriott Grant or Court Yard by Marriott it is always worth to walk to Mayakovskaya Square to visit "IL PATIO" restaurant (1ya Tverskaya-Yamskaya, 2) where you can have pizza from $4, salad-bar for $7 or lunch for $12-18. Besides classical pizza, they offer a great variety of meat, seafood and vegetable dishes. You can even order pasta dishes according to your own recipe. This place is open from 12 am-12 pm and has an English menu.
http://il-patio.rosinter.com/?city=6144 |
| Fast-food place "ROSTIKS" is situated at the same building and it's like KFC where you can have fried chicken for $3-5. Rostik's is famous for its juicy crunchy chicken in original house batter. Chicken wings and sticks, nuggets, chicken shashlik, and a variety of other chicken dishes are always winners. Those watching their health will find a menu featuring vegetable salads with shrimps and toasts, chicken and vegetable sandwiches made with tortillas, and a variety of juices. http://www.rostiks.ru/map/ |
| "The American Bar & Grill" is also situated at the same building around the corner. This restaurant gives you the chance to eat not only classic American dishes, but also to try the best in Italian, Mexican, and even Thai cuisine. Buffalo wings, Italian pasta with seafood and spaghetti, Mexican soup, burritos and fajitas, Californian chicken with vegetables and mouth-watering South-East Asian treats are among the many delicious dishes you'll find at The American Bar & Grill. Metro Mayakovskaya, 1-ya Tverskaya-Yamskaya St., 2, bld.1 Open: 24 hours http://ambar.rosinter.com/about/ |
| "TGI Fridays" on Tverskaya str, 18 (Kodak-cinema building, 2nd floor) will make you feel like home, as it is an American restaurant chain. It was Friday's that invented the recipe for loaded potato skins, which has gone on to become not only the restaurant's hit, but also a signature American dish. They offer Jack Daniel's glazed ribs, Friday's quesadilla, a tortilla pancake with beef or chicken fillet; Fettuccine Alfredo, pasta served with Cajun sauce, etc. The dishes startle with the size of servings. And there are also salads, sandwiches, Friday's signature hamburgers, juicy steaks, Cajun recipes and chef's specials! http://fridays.rosinter.com/about |
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You may also visit the "Starlight Diners" Typical American diner with American prices. Delicious milk shakes, sandwiches, burgers, pizza, tex-mex cuisine. Kid's menu. Open 24 hours. Accepted cards: VV Electron, MC, AE Maestro (B. Sadovaya str., 16 at the Aquarium Garden). Five minutes walk from Mayakovskaya metro station. |
| The growing net of restaurants "SBARRO" - a kind of Italian style fast-food eateries - offers more than 15 different pizzas and hot dishes. The average cost of a good lunch is 8-15 dollars. Walk Tverskaya street and you will pass three Sbarro restaurants: metro Mayakovskaya, 15-1, Tverskaya-Yamskaya St., metro Tverskaya 10, Tverskaya St., metro Okhotny Ryad Manezhnaya Sq., Mall Okhotny Ryad (ground floor ) or CALL 741-77-55 AND ASK TO DELIVER PIZZA TO YOUR HOTEL. http://www.sbarro.ru/ |
| Those who want to try a Russian cuisine welcome to Marriott Grand Hotel, its restaurants "Russkiy pogrebok" and "Samobranka" are well-known as the best Moscow restaurants with the real Russian cuisine such as hot right from the oven pancakes with sour creme, black caviar, red caviar or salmon. You may also like pelmeni (dumplings) or mushrooms salted, marinated or home-made pasty ruddy, Russian borsch, etc. "Samobranka" restaurant is open daily from 06:30 till 22:30 and "Russkiy pogrebok" is open for dinner from 18:00 till 23:00. Dinner w/o vine is about $40 per person. http://marriott-moscow.ru/english/hotels/grand/restaurants/?1 |
| | If you will have time, take a taxi and go to Sadovaya-Spasskaya str. by the metro station Krasnie Vorota to visit the restaurant "The Merchant club "At the Mill" ("Na Melnitse")and experience the special place with the atmosphere of the Russian country-side folklore and try wondrous Russian cuisine based on ages-old recipes. Mind that dinner for two people will cost you $50-70. http://www.namelnitse.ru/eng/index.html |
 | There are more then ten Ukrainian-Russian restaurants "Korchma Taras Bulba" in Moscow. Ask at the reception desk of the hotel you are staying to get a taxi and go to the nearest one to try Russian food for budget-minded people. Potato cakes, Ukrainian red-beet soup, home fried pork sausage, stuffed cabbage rolls with mixed pork and beef, pasta pouches with different fillings: potatoes, mushrooms or fish - you will eat your fingers there! Hot dishes for $14-16, salads and drinks. http://www.tarasbulba.ru |
| If you prefer to stick to something familiar - visit the nearest "McDonald's", there are more then 50 in Moscow downtown. American fast food restaurant with English language menu offer Lunches for $2-5. |
If you are staying at the Court Yard Marriott City Center, walk about 10 minutes and you are on the Red Square. Go to the mall "OKHOTNYI RYAD" (THE UNDEGRAUND MALL) and besides shopping visit 3rd floor for a variety of fast food restaurants: Sbarro ( pizza and salad-bar $3-5), Rostiks (fried chicken and more - $3-5) and other places with French, Italian, Ukrainian and Russian cuisine for very reasonable prices.
Kosher food can be found in two good restaurants: the restaurant "ON MONMARTRE" not far from the Kremlin and the restaurant "GAMBRINUS" on Tverskoi Bulvar.
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