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Moscow Restaurant Reviews

The Moscow restaurant world is slowly growing into the dining scene that a metropolis deserves. Restaurants of all classes and styles are opening every week, with imported foreign chefs battling it out for Moscow's upper and middle classes. There's a new breed of restaurants serving Russian fare as the fad for Western food loses some, but by no means all, of its glamour. Ethnic restaurants have arrived as well, and you can sample Tibetan, Indian, Chinese, Latin American, or Turkish any night of the week. Be warned, however, that chef turnover is high in Moscow and that a restaurant can swiftly go downhill or uphill.

Reserve plenty of time for your meal. In Russia dining out is an occasion, and Russians often make an evening (or an afternoon) out of going out to eat, especially at those Moscow showplaces replete with gilded cornices, hard-carved oak, and tinkling crystal. An unhurried splendor is definitely the order of the day.

Prices at high-class restaurants are more expensive than what you'd expect to pay in the United States, although they're probably comparable to London prices. Almost all the expensive hotel restaurants serve a Sunday brunch, when you can enjoy their haute cuisine and elegant surroundings at greatly reduced prices, usually between $30-$90. Restaurants generally post their prices in conditional units though payment is expected in rubles. Most restaurants link the units to the course of the dollar although linking their prices to the euro is becoming much more common. Some even fix it to their own imaginary course somewhere between that of the dollar and the euro. It's best to check before you order.

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