Thai Cuisine Moscow
HKONG
Cuisine: Chinese, ThaiAddress: 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya street, 7
Nearest metro station: Belorusskaya, Mayakovskaya
Telephone: (495) 200-5763, 250-5420
Working hours: 11.00-00.00
Additional service: business lunch, take away service, banquets
Average bill: £35-40
Credit cards: American Express, Diners Club, Eurocard, Master/Eurocard, MasterCard, Visa, Visa Electron
This was the first restaurant in Moscow to serve Pan-Asian cuisine. Chinese, Thai, Taiwanese and Japanese are all represented and some dishes have a European touch to them, which befits a restaurant named after the cultural melting pot that is Hong Kong. The interior is elegant but not overdone, making the restaurant stylish but still fairly relaxed - the sharp lines geometry, antique things, pretentious luxuriance of dragons, laconic color scale: black, beige, deep brown and all the shades of old gold. On weekdays there is a 15% discount between 12.00 and 16.00 while on weekends between 11.00 and 18.00 there is 20% off. The menu features a large range of tasty dishes to choose from.
BAAN THAI
Cuisine: ThaiAddress: Bolshaya Dorogomilovskaya street, 11
Nearest metro station: Kievskaya
Telephone: (495) 240-0597
Working hours: 12.00-0.00
Additional service: delivery, banquets, business lunch
Average bill: £20
Credit cards: American Express, Cirrus, Diners Club, Eurocard, JSB, Maestro, Master/Eurocard, MasterCard, Visa, Visa Electron, Visa Maestro
When you come to this restaurant it seems that you are in a varnished box full of jewels like in an oriental tale. This sensation is resulted by the design interior: dark wood with opalescent mirrors, emerald accent in textile and Thai masks on the walls. The restaurant menu is quite vast and comprises the popular trends of Thai cuisine. Guests are offered as the starter spring-rolls with vegetables or shrimps, frog legs fried with garlic and pepper and bamboo skewered shrimps. Among a wide choice of salads pay attention to malako, where the shrimps and fruit are presented with style, served in papaya boat. Still not exactly cheap but less expensive than Blue Elephant, Baan Thai serves up some tasty treats for lovers of this cuisine.
BANGKOK
Cuisine: ThaiAddress: Bolshoy Strochenovsky pereulok, 10
Nearest metro station: Serpukhovskaya
Telephone: (495) 237-9402, 237-3074
Working hours: 12.00 - 23.00
Additional service: business lunch, delivery, free parking
Average bill: £20
Credit cards: American Express, Diners Club, MasterCard, Visa, Visa Electron
Don't be put off by the tired-looking entryway or the cheaply printed menu: this place serves excellent, authentic cuisine - possibly the best Thai in town. If you ask for it spicy, they'll give it to you spicy. A real Thai cookery is impossible without seafood. It's roasted, stewed, steamed and stuffed. The Tom Yum King prawn soup with lemongrass (£10) is a pure bliss. A great attention in Thai cuisine is paid to the design of fruit desserts that is no less important that the taste. Here you can try a real master's work – a rose from water-melon decorated with tropical flowers by pineapple and mango. Too beautiful to look at and too pity to eat. The Bangkok is the first Moscow restaurant that has Thai chef, Thai cookery and the real Thai atmosphere.
BLUE ELEPHANT
Cuisine: ThaiAddress: Novinsky Bulvar, 31
Nearest metro station: Smolenskaya
Telephone: (495) 580-7756
Working hours: 12:00-23:30
Additional service: free parking
Average bill: £50
Credit cards: American Express, Cirrus, Diners Club, Eurocard, Japanese, JSB, Maestro, Master/Eurocard, MasterCard, Union, Visa, Visa Electron, Visa Maestro
The Moscow chapter of an international chain of Thai restaurants. You will find the best Thai Food in Moscow here, even if you have to pay through the nose for it. The restaurant features lots of plants and fake rock walls but doesn’t seem at all tacky. If you’re planning on a one-off visit or are new to Thai food then the Royal Thai Banquet set menu is a great option. It offers samples of a whole variety of Thai dishes and is priced at about £40 per person. That may sound a bit pricey, but unfortunately you won’t get much better ordering off their a la carte menu with an average bill still up around £35. The cuisine in 'Blue elephant' won’t disappoint your expectations. Having ordered the starter “Blue elephant’s pearls” you will get acquainted with the whole variety of the best local starters and you’ll definitely like “Massamana” - a lamb stewed on low fire in delicate medium spiced sauce.
OM CAFÉ
Cuisine: Vegetarian, ThaiAddress: Novy Arbat, 15/1
Nearest metro station: Arbatskaya
Telephone: (495) 202-1582
Working hours: 11.00 – 00.00
Additional service: business lunch, buffet table
Average bill: £15
Credit cards: American Express, MasterCard, Visa
You will be welcomed here by friendly waitresses in long eastern attires, with amazing handbags embroidered with figures of Buddha. They will offer you Thai or vegetarian menu and treat you to unusual dishes made of ecological healthy products. For starters they serve Salad with wild lilies and vegetables or Salad with white and black wild mushrooms and sea kale, Soup with pickled Thai cabbage and tofu or Vegetable marrow stuffed with special vegetarian meat (made of wheat cellular tissue), Vegetarian lasagne or Tkharo with red beans and battered nut. If rather than having glass noodles or potato packora with deep-fried cheese, you prefer national Thai dishes. Chef from Bangkok Tkhongsunk Ch is also famous for his unusual desserts: saku in coconut milk, bananas in shredded coconut, exotic fruit (longan, ramputan, litchi) served in syrup with ice.