Restaurant Guide

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This is a unique restaurant guide. We have collected information about the best restaurants of the city and performed it as an interesting author's guidebook around Moscow. We are sure that just having a look at it you will get to know a lot of new things about our city and discover plenty of restaurants worth drawing attention and visiting.
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It is usual to begin any more or less serious narration about Moscow history with a historical supper which was given in 1147 by Suzdal prince Juri Vladimirovich Dolgoruky in honor of a dear guest and ally Sviatoslav Olgovich who was the duke of Seversk. In those days a dense pinery was on the place of the present Kremlin, and the feast was held on the land belonging to boyar Stepan Kuchko. He was rich, independent and didn’t want to acknowledge any prince authority.
In cruel spirits of those times Kuchko was executed under a pretext, his land was joined to grand price estate property and Dolgoruky made his son marry a boyar’s daughter Ulita.
A transformation of an ordinary but rich settlement into a historically significant city took several centuries. At the same time Moscow was fast built and flourished despite of regular forays and conflagrations for spite of numerous enemies having grudge against a vivid trading city.
Inevitable confrontation which appeared after Moscow had lost its status of the official capital led to voluntary and involuntary comparison Moscow to Saint Petersburg. It turned out to be that Moscow could be characterized easier in these circumstances. ‘Nice living in a full and fat Moscow!
It is impossible to feel yourself in such a way in Saint Petersburg. Eyes can’t see everything. The landscape is full of straight, leisured and melancholy lines. Rain, hoarfrost, fog. In a restaurant it is dark, cold, smells badly after a yesterday’s booze, food is vapid, sofas are dirty. There are no individual, own features. It is impossible to see how a native Russian person works, earns money, buy fine clothes, thinks up meals and beverages. In Moscow everything is different!’ It easy and pleasant to agree with P. Boborykin’s opinion. He was a Russian writer and unsurpassed expert of Moscow merchants' customs. It is the fact that one could live daintily and Russian style liberally in Moscow. One was a good judge of food also. Nowhere but in Moscow it was possible to taste such rasstegais, pozharskie cutlets and Guryevskaya kasha (semolina with raisins). Saint Petersburg gastronomes ordered fried young pigs and frozen rasstegais from Moscow. The followings Russian taverns were very characteristic for old Moscow: Gurin’s 'Bolshoy Moskovsky', Testov’s tavern, ‘Novotroitsky’ located in Ilyinka. A tavern was the very place where one conducted business deals and made prosperous bargains, eating tasty meals and drinking spirits or tea.
Although our modern megapolis has few in common with old Moscow which used to be amiable and a little bit cunning, an inimitable image and special spirit has been preserved in historical Moscow.