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From my mailbox: How can you promote restaurants that serve murdered animals! Only pure vegetarian (preferably vegan!) establishments should be listed here. Response: Think of me as promoting not a restaurant, but a vegetarian option it offers. The aim of this site, at least while I am largely responsible for its content, is to present information to make travelling in Russia easier to the members of the international vegetarian community. I understand and even share your sentiment, but let me be a pragmatic information gatherer for practical travellers. If you are looking for ritual purity Russia is a destination to be avoided altogether..
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In addition to listing specific shops, I want to make a point that there is plenty of vegetarian food available in Moscow. Don't believe your cannibal friends who will tell you otherwise - it just didn't occur to them to notice these things.
Know of anything to be added to this list ? Tell me, share with others.
Organic vegetables market. Malaya Gruzinskaya 12, Metro Belorusskaya. [Expect a full report soon]
The Soya Center. Pervomayskaya 52, Metro Pervomayskaya or Izmaylovskaya. Tofu, fake sausage, patties, good soya sauce, sprouts etc. [more]
Farmers markets. Excellent placed to get vegetables, nuts, herbs, spices etc. Most of what is available from peasants is grown with minimal, if any, use of pesticides and mineral fertilizers. They just don't have the money for it
"Preobrazhensky Rynok" is the biggest and cheapest of these country markets. A visit there can also be of touristy value because you'll see ordinary people from all over ex-USSR. Nearest Metro: Preobrazhenskaya and Semenovskaya.
Dzhagannat Express Vegetarian Restaurant and Cafe, Kuznetsky Most 11, a few steps just west from the KGB headquarters, also has a health food store.
Please be assured that this is TYPICAL** for Moscow. But not for small Russian towns and villages, not yet.
Russian Sprout. Moscow 127540, Dubninskaya 16, corpus 5, tel./fax: (095) 195-3346, http://www.sprout.ru, mailto:rusp@rambler.ru Sells at the Soya Center on Permomayskaya and Moloko store on Kutuzovski and probably lots of other places. Fresh and inexpensive. Tested and approved by the webmaster personally.
Dom Meda (House of Honey) on Novokuznetskaya. Soya products, legumes, herb teas... Information and photos are coming up
Being a carnivore at heart, I strongly recommend this specific type of vegetarian fake meat as giving the most realistic impression that you are eating a piece of somebody rather than something. I usually get it in the House of Honey (Novokuznetskaya) or The Soya Center (Pervomaiskaya in Izmailovo).
