Japanese Cuisine Moscow
SAPPORO
Cuisine: JapaneseAddress: Prospect Mira, 14
Nearest metro station: Prospekt Mira, Sukharevskaya
Telephone: (495) 207-39-41
Working hours: 12.00 - 23.00
Additional service: banquets, take away service, free parking
Average bill:£40
Credit cards: American Express, Diners Club, MasterCard, Visa, Visa Electron
“Sapporo” is the oldest Japanese Moscow restaurant. Visitors can be sure that they are offered original, authentic Japanese cuisine, and not an adapted European variant. The restaurant menu has a wonderful choice of sushi and sashimi, for example, “Sashimi mori”. It is a kind of seafood made dish comprised of the freshest tuna, octopus, yellowtail, shrimps and red caviar. Try any of their hot dishes - meat dumplings “Gedza”, mini shashliks “Yakitori”, salmon in teriyaki sauce, shrimps tempura and “Ramen” noodles in different variations. For dessert guests can choose either green tea Japanese ice-cream or national sweets or fruit. As to beverages in the bar, you’ll be offered both the widest choice of classical European wines, whisky, cognac and the widest range of well-known Japanese sake and plum wine.
SUSHI VYOSLA
Cuisine: JapaneseAddress: Nikolskaya street, 25
Nearest metro station: Lubyanka, Teatralnaya
Telephone: (495) 937-0521
Working hours: 12.00-0.00
Additional service:
Average bill: £15
Credit cards: MasterCard, Visa
One of the few places for the last several years on Moscow's fierce and fickle sushi bar scene, this restaurant is as hip and fresh as ever. Plates of ever-fresh and ever-changing sushi, sashimi, and rolls float around the bar on a continuous river. (Vyosla means "oars" in Russian.) The compact hall is usually full of wealthy Russians talking business or stopping in for a quick bite between shopping sprees. It's not a place for leisurely dining, but that means you never have to wait long for a seat. Choices change daily though you can request standard rolls and sushi combinations from the chefs on the island in the middle of the "river." Anything with Baltic Sea eel or scallops is worth sampling.
GINNO TAKI AND YAKITORIYA
Cuisine: JapaneseAddress: 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya street, 29, Bldg. 1; Tverskaya street, 6 and other locations
Nearest metro station: Belorusskaya; Okhotny Ryad
Telephone: (495) 250-5385; (495) 692-5350
Working hours: 11.00-6.00
Additional service: take away service
Average bill: £15
Credit cards: American Express, Diners Club, Euro Card, Master Card, Union, Visa
Both are Japanese food chains that are very similar in design and menu, although Yakitoriya was the pioneer in this field and has more outlets. Ginno Taki is derived from Japan’s most popular restaurant chain which has a similar name. Ginno Taki and Yakitoriya always have Fashion TV on for some reason, and if you don't like it, you can see how your sushi is being made. Both restaurants also have a delivery service. You should definitely go out to one of the two to get the feel of the Moscow Japanese cuisine frenzy.
PLANETA SUSHI
Cuisine: JapaneseAddress: Novy Arbat, 14/1; Taganskaya street, 1/2; 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya street 2/1
Nearest metro station: Arbatskaya; Marksistskaya; Mayakovskaya
Telephone: (495) 290-6869; 911-2259; 250-9509
Working hours: 12.00-0.00 Fri-Sat: 12.00-6.00
Additional service: take away service
Average bill: £10-15
Credit cards: American Express, Diners Club, Euro Card, Maestro, Master Card, STB, Union, Visa, Visa Electron
Sushi-bars are a perfect alternative to expensive restaurants of Japanese cuisine. The specialties of the restaurant are more than 40 kinds of sushi, sashimi, teriyaki, sake, plum wine and draft beer. The outlets are modern with a just a hint of Japanese influence in the design. Try dessert rolls of coconut and rice with exotic fruits.
BENIHANA
Cuisine: JapaneseAddress: Pushkinskaya Ploshchad, 5
Nearest metro station: Pushkinskaya
Telephone: (495) 209-1023
Working hours: 12.00-0.00
Additional service: business lunch, parking
Average bill: £15
Credit cards: American Express, Diners Club, Euro Card, Master Card, Visa
The very world-popular system of restaurants "Benihana" started from a small restaurant in New York Westside in 1964. The "Benihana" means "red flower". The restaurant has a special feature - cooking dishes on a special table "teppanyaki". Virtuoso-cookers fry beef, chicken, shrimps and a lot other things on the scorching table keeping with the ‘dining as entertainment’ philosophy that Benihana is famous for.
FUJI
Cuisine: JapaneseAddress: Bolshaya Dmitrovka street, 32
Nearest metro station: Pushkinskaya
Telephone: (495) 209-3240
Working hours: 12.00-23.00
Additional service: take away service, banquets, business lunch, parking
Average bill: £20
Credit cards: American Express, Count Down, Diners Club, Euro Card, Maestro, Master Card, Union, Visa, Visa Electron
The first Japanese restaurant in Moscow. It is decorated in modern Japanese style. The restaurant consists of two halls, in one of them there is a sushi-bar, in the other - pergolas for 6 people. The restaurant is decorated with a fountain and a pool. Traditional Japanese music. Sushi-bar, pan-jaki. Specialities of the house: made dish of sushi - £20 (tunny-fish, rudderfish, perch, shrimp, sea-eel, squid, octopus, Siberian salmon with cucumber roll).
AIKO
Cuisine: Japanese, AsianAddress: Frunzenskaya embankment, 24d
Nearest metro station: Frunzenskaya
Telephone: (495) 242-9773
Working hours: 12.00-0.00
Additional service: banquet service, parking
Average bill: £10
Credit cards: not accepted
The first Moscow club that combines a night discotheque and a Japanese restaurant opened on a barge. On the menu - over thirty dishes. Prices are quite reasonable and considerably lower than in most Japanese restaurants. Hot dishes: shrimps and vegetables in tampura-mori pastry, eel smoked with unadzyu rice, chicken with tikin-teriyaky sauce, ravioli with shrimps or gedza meat, marble beef sukiyaki-dzyu with vegetables and rice. The club has an original interior. Its spacious light hall is decorated with pastel-brown stylish paintings and a couple of dried trees edged with round flat stones.
RIS I RYBA (RICE AND FISH)
Cuisine: JapaneseAddress: Serafimovicha street, 2
Nearest metro station: Polyanka
Telephone: (495) 959-4949
Working hours: 24 hours
Additional service: banquet service, business-lunch, non smoking area, parking
Average bill: £20
Credit cards: Euro Card, Maestro, Master Card, Union, Visa, Visa Electron
The restaurant is designed in a space style. Prepared by two cooks dishes of Japanese cuisine are put on kaiten (conveyor), from which clients can take all in large quantities for £10, without taking strong drinks into account. You can order 120 dishes by the menu. A 50% reduction for the kids. Unfortunately not the best sushi in town. Stay away from the Moscow rolls, included in the sushi mixed platter, unless you're crazy about dill. The best thing here is the view.