Near the metro station "Okhotny Ryad" restaurants and cafes are in large numbers. After all, this is the center of Moscow, there are always a lot of tourists, city guests who want to look into a pretty place near the main attractions of the capital. And among the locals themselves, these institutions are well-deserved popularity. We will talk about several restaurants in this article.
Steakhouse Network
If you decide to go to a restaurant on Okhotny Ryad, then be sure to pay attention to the network of steakhouses that has long been loved by Muscovites and visitors. At Goodman Restaurant you can enjoy postcard views while enjoying excellently prepared marbled meat. Here it is made using a special technology, using a camera for combined and dry ripening of meat.
In the Goodman restaurant on Okhotny Ryad you will plunge into a comfortable interior. Noble wood, dark skin, black and white photographs of old Moscow will help you feel like a real aristocrat of the beginning of the last century.
Overlooking the Kremlin
It is interesting that in addition to the main hall in this restaurant on Okhotny Ryad there are several separate rooms in which you can retire. The Kremlin’s cabinet is considered the most prestigious of them, with a view of the Kremlin. There are several separate banquet halls for small and very large-scale companies.
In fine weather, you can take a seat on the summer terrace, which offers a wonderful view of the Bolshoi Theater.
This restaurant on Okhotny Ryad is located at Okhotny Ryad, house 2. There is also a shopping gallery called "Fashion Season". After 22 hours, the entrance to the steakhouse is open only from the side of the Revolution Square.
Goodman Menu
The menu of this establishment will pleasantly surprise any gourmet. The main attention should be paid, of course, to steaks. Prime steaks are made from domestic Black Angus beef, which has the highest marbling degree. Gobies are fed 200 days. The cost of such a steak is 3,490 rubles.
Choyce Steaks are made from meat grown in Latin America. This is an average degree of marbling; gobies are fed 120 days. You can order a steak from the central, head and rib parts. The cost of the dish is 2,490 rubles.
There are options for alternative steaks. This is the Country Ranch steak from the cervical-scapular part, it has a low degree of marbling, a portion costs 990 rubles. Filet mignon with foie gras served with cherry sauce, asparagus, crunchy croutons and seasonal fruits (1,590 rubles).
"Chateau de Paris" - a classic French cuisine, served with fried spinach and sweet pepper, which is baked on charcoal.
The most budget option - "Flank steak" for 790 rubles. It is prepared from a tenderloin of the muscle part of the abdomen of a bull, which is pre-fed for 120 days. It is worth noting that this meat has a low degree of marbling.
In total in Moscow there are 9 restaurants of this network. In the reviews, visitors often note that although the meat is of high enough quality, the service is very poor.
La bella società
The Italian restaurant on Okhotny Ryad, which attracts a large number of visitors, is called La bella società. The institution itself positions itself as an expensive and beautiful place in which you understand that emptiness may be appropriate. Here you can fully feel like a character in the famous director Paolo Sorrentino. It is interesting that the restaurant is located directly in the lobby of the club-cinema "Moscow", where you can enjoy after dinner the paintings of classic Italian cinema.
This Italian restaurant on Okhotny Ryad was created by financier Oleg Krymasov, who has rich travel experience, he tried to adopt the best he saw in a variety of restaurants around the world. From personal experience, he created the menu structure and most recipes. In the very first days of the restaurant’s work on Okhotny Ryad in Moscow, most visitors admitted that now they don’t have to miss foreign restaurants, since here they can get the same level of service and quality of food. The ideology of this institution is based on the taste and experience of the main creator of Krymasov.
There is a restaurant on Okhotny Ryad, 2, this is the shopping gallery of the Moscow Hotel.
Menu with Italian accent
The menu has a wide selection of seafood - lobsters (1,500 rubles per 100 grams), crabs (750 rubles per 100 grams), oysters "White Pearls" (650 rubles per piece).
Visitors are offered a variety of unusual snacks and salads: carpaccio made of octopus stewed at low temperature with bottarga, quail salad, crispy polenta and lettuce with dressing from mascarpone cheese, a warm seafood salad, arancini with spicy stuffing from lamb and pistachios.
In the classic Italian restaurant near the Okhotny Ryad metro station there is a large selection of pizza. Here you can find thin-crust pizza with artichokes, cacotta cheese and turkey, farm pizza with grilled zucchini, farm egg, sheep and goat cheese, portobello mushrooms, homemade smoked salmon and black caviar pizza, thin crust pizza with cacotta cheese and black truffle.
Mussels and pasta
Italian food lovers can enjoy risotto and pasta. Pasta is cooked here at the choice of the visitor with integral pasta. There are three options: green lentil fusili (gluten free), rice flour penne (gluten free), whole grain spaghetti with a low glycemic index.
Of the main dishes, the regulars will advise you to try mussels cooked in puttanesque sauce, Thermidor lobster, swordfish steak with parmesan, pine nuts and herbs, Venetian rabbit liver with foie gras and mashed potatoes.
In reviews, visitors appreciate the local menu and a rich wine list. For example, many celebrate here delicious and original designer cocktails, which are prepared in a local bar.
Novikov
Restaurant "Novikov" on Okhotny Ryad is one of the institutions that is part of a network of restaurants popular around the world. The first restaurant under this brand was opened in the capital of Great Britain. The English press criticized him immediately for stiffness and bourgeoisness, as a result he became famous not only throughout the country, but throughout the world, becoming very popular.
Its counterpart in Russia appeared in 2013, about two years after a high-profile debut in London. In the metropolitan restaurant "Novikov" the bet was placed on fresh and exceptional products, and not on technology, as in England. All fresh fish is promptly delivered by plane, and the Japanese chef Sae Yamaoka is in charge of everything in the kitchen. As a result, here you will taste elegant and strict Pan-Asian food, and everything is done with emphasized perfectionism.
This restaurant near Okhotny Ryad metro is located at Tverskaya Street, 3. It is located on the ground floor of The Ritz-Carlton Moscow Hotel.
Pan-Asian diversity
The restaurant's menu has a large selection of sushi and rolls, but the chef is Japanese. For the first, they will advise you on Vietnamese veal soup, Japanese seafood soup, fish soup with paw, black Chinese chicken soup, cream of mushroom soup.
In the meat section you will be offered Shouji chicken, beef tenderloin in chili sauce, Peking duck, rack of lamb with Yakitori sauce, grilled kobe with Vagyu sauce, even chicken skewers and buckwheat with rabbit.
Japanese chef's signature dishes are woks. Here is a variant of wok with grilled kobe and Vagyuvok sauce, vegetables and chili sauce, chicken in sweet and sour sauce, beef in pepper sauce or sea bass in Ho sauce.
Classic notes
Those who prefer a more classic menu will also find something to try. For example, khachapuri in Mingrelian or Adjarian.
In the reviews, visitors praise the institution for delicious and original food, but not everything is good with the service. For example, many say that none of the employees say goodbye to visitors who leave at the end of the evening. But they praise the pleasant interior and furnishings, the fast delivery of dishes, very unusual recipes.
Dr. Zhivago
Near metro station "Okhotny Ryad" restaurant Dr. Zhivago works on the ground floor of the National Hotel. It offers a beautiful view of the Kremlin, and visitors can enjoy modern and traditional Russian cuisine.
The interior of the institution is very similar to a children's book with pictures. Chandeliers in the shape of Kremlin stars, attractive mosaics on the ceiling, and varied reproductions of Petrov-Vodkin, Malevich, Samokhvalov and Deinek on the walls.
The role of the chef is Maxim Tarusin, who once worked in the legendary Moscow Yar. Here is an interesting, as they say, non-canonical menu. In addition to the classic sections ("Soups", "Snacks", "Salads and Hot") there are also original ones - "Cutlets", "Herring", "Julienne", "Dumplings".
The dishes are very plentiful and at a low price. If desired, one of the halls can be rented to arrange a real banquet in the spirit of Russian aristocrats, associates of the famous doctor Zhivago from the novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak.
The restaurant is located at: Mokhovaya street, house 15.
Original dishes
The menu will delight you with a large number of original dishes. The main menu presents a wide selection of salads and snacks. These are jellied meat of three kinds, carpaccio from duck with sea buckthorn and turnip, mushrooms in sour cream, salad with new potatoes, sour cream, dill and red caviar, cod liver with mustard dressing, warm salad with chicken giblets and wild lingonberries, Zhivago specialty olivier "with pickles.
For the first, they will offer hot and cold soups. For example, Moscow borscht, porcini mushroom soup with pearl barley, pumpkin cream soup with crab, five northern fish soup on rooster broth, daily cabbage soup with sauerkraut or okroshka on kvass / kefir, botany with crayfish, beetroot .
Now about the special sections of the menu. In the chapter "Cutlets" you will find a Kiev cutlet, fire, chicken with mushroom sauce, game with lingonberries and even three types of meat with crushed ice.
The institution has a large selection of dumplings - with venison, duck, mushrooms, crab, crucian carp and nelma. Serving from 480 to 720 rubles.
As we have already written, Julien is presented separately. For example, from crayfish necks, crabs, porcini mushrooms, beef tongue or quail. In the restaurant Dr. Zhivago has a large selection of varied caviar (sturgeon caviar or black, red, herring caviar in pancake with green onion, mushroom, pike, eggplant). Pancakes are served separately for caviar.
The restaurant serves special dishes brought directly from Sakhalin. These are comb prawns, crab meat, northern lobsters, Magadan and northern prawns. Also here you can taste Hasan, Pacific, Soloviev or Crimean oysters.
And from cold snacks it is worthwhile to separately tell about slices of Far Eastern salmon, boiled pork, sockeye salmon, sun-dried duck, beef tongue, sturgeon balyk or salmon.