Cuisine: Belgian, European, Beer Address: Sivtsev Vrazhek, 3 Nearest metro station: Kropotkinskaya Telephone: (495) 203-6841 Working hours: 12.00-23.00 Additional service: business lunch, 50% beer take away Average bill: £20-25 Credit cards: MasterCard, Visa
More than 20 types of Belgian Trappist abbey, white and fruit beers in what might pass for a medieval monastic atmosphere if you ignore the TV screens and the music. The wait staff are appropriately dressed.
SCHWARZWALD
Cuisine: European, German, Beer Address: Petrovka street, 14; Peschanaya street, 3 Nearest metro station: Kuznetsky Most, Teatralnaya; Sokol Telephone: (495) 2003595, 2004457; 157-2525 Working hours: 12.00-last dinner Additional service: business lunch, banquets, take away service Average bill: £15-20 Credit cards: Diners Club, Master/Eurocard, Visa
One of the most popular beer restaurants in Moscow. The interior features the masterful combination of German heaviness, good quality, spaciousness and home-like cosiness. Meals are relatively inexpensive, delicious and very big. The waitresses are usually very pretty and wear ridiculous but sexy “traditional” German costumes which aren’t quite low-cut but still revealing enough to be distracting. The basement level setting is spacious and the bar area is a phantastic place to sit and there is an extra private hall for functions. Schwarzvald has 12 different Czech and German beers on tap and a few more come in bottled version. The average beer costs about £3. The only complaint is that there is no budget beer on offer for the cash-strapped.
BEER HOUSE
Cuisine: Beer restaurant, Caucasian, French, German, Italian, Japanes Address: Nizhnaya Maslovka street, 5 Nearest metro station: Savyolovskaya Telephone: (495) 257-64-09 Working hours: 11.00 - 23.00 Additional service: business lunch Average bill: £15-20 Credit cards: American Express, Eurocard, Master/Eurocard, MasterCard, Visa
There are 15 kinds of beer on the menu, and 7 of them are draught (Siberian Corona, Carlsberg, Spaten, Krusovice, Velvet, Hoegaarden White). Especially for those who love exotics there are some bottled Japanese beers in the bar. With beer the restaurant offers generous snacks from the German beer menu – sausages and Bavarian sausages, pork ribs and pork shank and many other tasty things. Also you can try masterpieces of Japanese, Caucasian, French and Italian cuisines. Refined crawfish crème soup, tender foie gras with apples and strawberries, flavoursome spaghetti with Bolognese sauce and freshest sushi - these are only small excerpts from the wide menu developed by its chef. STARINA MULLER
Cuisine: Beer restaurant, European, German, Russian Address: Malaya Dmitrovka street, 18a; Shmitovsky Proezd, 2; Vorontsovskaya street, 35b Nearest metro station: Mayakovskaya; Ulitsa 1905 Goda; Taganskaya Telephone: (495) 299-8434; 259-1373; 797-2092 Working hours: 11.00-1.00 Additional service: business lunch, banquets Average bill: £10-15 Credit cards: Maestro, MasterCard, Visa, Visa Electron, Visa Maestro
More than 20 types of Belgian Trappist abbey, white and fruit beers in what might pass for a medieval monastic atmosphere if you ignore the TV screens and the music. The wait staff are appropriately dressed.
TINKOFF
Cuisine: Beer restaurant, European, German, Italian, Japanese, Mixed Address: Protochny Pereulok, 11 Nearest metro station: Smolenskaya Telephone: (495) 777-3300 Working hours: 12.00-2.00 Additional service: banquets, business lunch, children’s room, free parking Average bill: £20 Credit cards: Maestro, MasterCard, Visa, Visa Electron, Visa Maestro
The pre-eminent beer restaurant in Moscow, Tinkoff produces Russia’s most famous micro-brewed beer. On top of their seven regular beers (£2.5) they also produce a special beer for each season (£3.5). Tinkoff distinguishes itself from most other Russian breweries by adhering to the 1516 beer purity law from Germany which ensures quality in the selection of ingredients and in the brewing process itself. The result is a fuller, tastier and healthier beer than you will find elsewhere. This spacious and stylish Spartan restaurant also serves up a fresh menu each season. Tinkoff’s business lunches are an unbelievable deal with a £5 price tag buying three courses: a starter, a soup and a main course with garnish. Your choice of tea, mineral water or a 0.33L beer is thrown in for good measure. The rest of the day an average main course costs around £10 but the meals are filling and quite tasty. Tinkoff also hosts some good bands on a regular basis and their Live Beer Festival which runs every year around the same time as Oktoberfest is always great fun.
STARAYA TAGANKA (OLD TAGANKA)
Cuisine: Beer restaurant, Caucasian, European, French, German, Russian Address: Taganskaya street, 1/1 Nearest metro station: Marksistskaya, Taganskaya Telephone: (495) 912-71-82, 632-72-72 Working hours: 11.00-23.00 Additional service: banquets, business lunch Average bill: £15-20 Credit cards: Maestro, MasterCard, Visa, Visa Electron, Visa Maestro
Descending the stairs you fall into the indescribable beauty of the basement of the old mansion with three halls: beer, Old Russian and VIP. If your heart demands beer and German delicacies – you are welcome to the beer hall. Soup out of Weiseburg sausages with a cheese rissole, Burgundy sirloin, classical rollmops out of soft herring, pork shin, crayfish in beer… If the main course is not so easy to choose then things are very simple with beer: “Siberian Crown” (“Sibirskaya Korona”), 'Spaten', 'Krusovice', 'Hoegaarden', 'Guinness', 'Heineken', 'Lowenbrau' – you may choose according to your taste and mood. Probably you’d like to try favourite dishes of the Russian imperial court? Plain “Country borsch” with a pampushka (kind of fritter), ravioli with mushrooms, burned and not burned pancakes, stroganoff veal and other dainties will be especially tasty here, under the age-old arched vaults. As for the European part of the menu, it is performed by the French cuisine. There are dishes made from fowl, venison, roe and hog. BIERHAUS
Cuisine: Beer restaurant, German, Austian Address: Kozitsky Maly Pereulok, 2/12 Nearest metro station: Chekhovskaya, Pushkinskaya, Tverskaya Telephone: (495) 229-08-47, 229-11-31 Working hours: 12.00-last dinner Additional service: banquets, take away Average bill: £15-20 Credit cards: American Express, Diners Club, Eurocard, Maestro, Master/Eurocard, MasterCard, Visa, Visa Maestro
In this restaurant meals are not considered only as something to chew while drinking a beverage. Many 'Bierhaus' dishes are exclusive: try Viennese schnitzel, Knuckle roasted with traditional sauerkraut and potatoes or national Austrian snacks – garlic toasts with cheese or fried sausages. Even common herring turned into Salzen in 'Bierhaus': sauerkraut and other pickles were added to salty fish to make up an incredibly tasty dish!
ALPENGLUK
Cuisine: Beer restaurant, Austrian, Fish, Italian Address: Vavilova street, 81 Nearest metro station: Profsoyuznaya Telephone: (495) 132-8783 Working hours: 12.00-0.00 Additional service: business lunch, take away service, free parking Average bill: £15-30 Credit cards: Diners Club, Eurocard, Maestro, Master Card, Master/Eurocard, Visa, Visa Electron, Visa Maestro
"Alpengluk" means "Alpine happiness" in German. The restaurant presents dishes of those countries that border Alpine Mountains, such as France, Italy, Austria and Switzerland. The interior of the restaurant reminds of a chalet in Alpine Mountains. Cream-colored walls, lace curtains, black and white photos on the walls create an atmosphere of cosiness and easiness. The restaurant features three halls and VIP-room. Unusual detail of the interior decoration is glass floor in the hall. Through the glass the guests could see the wine cellar located on the lower storey. The menu of the restaurant features various delicious dishes. Swiss cuisine is presented by fondue, the national dish prepared of five sorts of melted cheese and white wine. The guests of the Alpengluk Restaurant are offered meat, fish, vegetable, and even chocolate fondues. The menu also features German meat courses, cold and hot appetizers of Mediterranean cuisine, French onion soup, trout fish with almonds, and exquisite dishes prepared by chef from Austria. The restaurant boasts rich carte of wines. Wine connoisseurs are welcome to attend the cellar and choose a bottle of wine to his or her taste.
BAVARIUS
Cuisine: Beer restaurant, German Address: Sadovaya-Triumfalnaya Ulitsa, 2/30, building 1; Komsomolsky Prospekt, 21/10 Nearest metro station: Mayakovskaya; Frunzenskaya Telephone: (495) 299-4211; (495)245-2395 Working hours: 12.00-0.00 Additional service: take away service, banquets, business lunch, happy hours, parking Average bill: £20 Credit cards: Diners Club, Master Card, Visa, Visa Electron
Wide selection of German beers in an atmospheric setting. Prices are about average for these places but are written in currency units at a warped exchange rate which might be slightly annoying. Huge, juicy sausages, sauerkraut, German brews and a fully acceptable unfiltered house beer.
Cuisine: Belgian, European, Beer 
Cuisine: Beer restaurant, European, German, Russian
