Input from clients is welcomed. Owners please send me your descriptions. Invite me over to make a full report. Don't worry, I will not even ask for a free meal. Travellers, print out Saying you are a vegetarian before going off and good luck.
Dzhagannat Express. 11 Kuznetski Most, near "House of Artist" (not to be confused with the one across the Garden Ring from the Gorky Park), tel. 928-3580, www.newage2000.ru Central and easy to find. . [more]
Ganga Cafe. Metro Begovaya, Khoroshevskoye Shosse, dom 8, korpus 3. Open 9am to 8pm. Tel. 946-0036, 545-3316. Hare Krishna music but otherwise not too much propaganda, and cheap plentiful food.
Belye Oblaka ("White Clouds"). This is a New Age center. Books, neat things of magical significance, aromas, lectures... A good place to go to meet your ilk if you are into these things.
Put k Sebe ("Way to Self"). Leningradskoye Shosse, east side, 5-10 min. north from M. Belorusskaaya, tel. 257-3987. Moscow's oldest New Age type establishment. Now apparently is has a cafe. The owner of this page has never been there because of intense New Age atmosphere.
VEGETARIAN-FRIENDLY
Shesh-Besh Azeri Restaurant. Its quite substantial "salad bar" is greatly recommended. [more] Don't know where they get vegetables that fresh and peppers that hot. I typically take the salad bar (you can load your plate only ONCE, no coming back!) and order one loaf of bread, one pot of tea, and a couple of shots of good vodka. In an hour I come out slightly tipsy, with no interest in food for the next 12 hours. The whole descent into the sin of gluttony costs around $15.
BAD: THIS IS THE MOST SMOKING RESTAURANT IN MOSCOW.
Kish-Mish. New Arbat, north side, next door to Shesh-Besh, opposite the Titanic Casino. Same type of food but MUCH LESS SMOKE.
Pandur. An Indian restaurant on Tverskaya. Vegetarian-friendly, excellent food, and not too too expensive. [ADD MORE DETAILS]
Maharaja. North Indian. Ulitsa Pokrovka, dom 2/1. Tel. (095) 921-7758.
5-Spice. Sivtsev Vrazhek 3/18, Metro Kropotkinskaya, (095)203-1283, 938-8228. Chinese and Indian tandori. Vegetarian business lunch $10.
Club Bunker. Tverskaya 12. Had a sign "Special for Messieurs Vegetarians: Chinese wild rice - 30 roubles; Baked cauliflower in cream souse with cheese - 50 roubles; Vareniki with cabbage and mushrooms - 50; Grilled vegetables - 60; Potatoes and mushrooms - 50."
Avocado Cafe. Chistoprudny Boulevard 12-2, tel. 921-7719. Inner side of the ring, across streetcar tracks across the pond. The ad boasts that no dead animals ever touched the plates used in this establishment. A classy restaurants to my humble taste. Been there once, with a child. A special high chair was brought out, and a colouring book, all of which, of course, prompted the typical child behaviour of crying and throwing things. My view on dealing with children aside, I appreciated the gesture.
Yamskoye Pole Vegetarian Cafe. 3ya ul. Yamskogo Polya 14/16, near M. Belorusskaya, tel. 257-1052/0490. Open noon to 8pm Monday to Saturday and 1pm to 6pm Sunday.
Chinese Food Kiosks. These yellow trailers are scattered all around the city. The nearest one to me in at Klementovsky and Pyatnitskaya, 5 min. from the Tretyakov Fine Arts Gallery. Try to-fu and fried rice, and also "Monk's Dinner". Lots of oil and I suspect MSG.
Samovar
"Traditional Russian cuisine. They always have fast items on the menu (traditionally fasting precluded all products of animal origin, including fish, eggs, and dairy. In Orthodox Christian tradition in addition to Lent and a few other long fasts, every Wednesday and Friday were supposed to be fast. But there are obviously very few committed Christians now, who keep the tradition). For vegans, they serve various mushroom entrees, plus stuffed peppers, cabbage, etc. In fact, mushrooms are likely to be the center of a no-meat Russian meal. An excerpt from their menu lists tomatoes stuffed with salted mushrooms, a head of green cabbage stuffed with veggies in mushroom gravy, 5 varieties of mushroom dumplings, kasha with onion. They might accommodate your request for eggless bliny (pancakes). Myasnitskaya ul., dom 13. Tel. (095) 921-4688"
Submitted by Andrei Sarychev
Tamerlan
"A Mongolian restaurant. Their blurb says unlimited choice for vegetarians. The entrees they list are too exotic for me to understand and communicate to you. A kind of "make your own entree" -- you choose the ingredients."
Submitted by Andrei Sarychev
Tibet-Himalayas
"Tibetan and Indian cuisine. About ten vegan choices, like aubergines in hot garlic sauce, spinach in French bean paste, dried black champignons with bamboo and spicy potatoes Shoko Hatsa, Tibetan Wine soup, made of wine, rice, raisins, nuts, and twiglets, etc. Address: Ul. Pokrovka, d. 19. Tel. (095) 917 398"
Submitted by Andrei Sarychev
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