Issue #28/83, February 10 - 17, 2000

(for one salad, entree, and one cocktail per person)
$ = up to $15.00	$$ = $15.00 to $30.00	$$$ = $30.00 to $50.00	$$$$ = $50.00 to ?

Baltschug

$$$

Cheers: The schmooze-central corporate brunch option; this is where expense accounts and government aid packages are blown; good chefs, German efficiency. Good smoked fish, hot veal, spaghetti bar.
Jeers: Better options elsewhere if you want atmosphere; low ceilings and pin lights on the sterile side.
M:Tretyakovskaya
Phone: 230 - 6500
Address: Baltschug Hotel, 1 Ulitsa Baltschuga
Hours: 8.00 - late

Lomonosov

$$$

Cheers: Moscow's most delicious brunch option: tasteful music and stage show, quality fish, caviar and meats; if you've got $47, come here for Sunday's best.
Jeers: Nothing much to jeer.
M: Belorusskaya
Phone: 931-9700
Address: Tverskaya-Yamskaya 1st Ul. 19, Palace Hotel
Hours: 12.00 - 01.00

Metropol

$$$$

Cheers: Turn of the century elegance in a tasteful setting; best place for tourists and business people to spend a Sunday afternoon; spacious interior allows for private conversation.
Jeers: No jeers, unless you don't have the $52 bucks.
M: Ploschad Revolutsy
Phone: 927-6061
Address: Teatralny Proyezd 1/4
Hours: 7-10:30, 12-15, 15-18 (only restaurant), 18-23 night bar 21-3

Radisson-Slavyanskaya

$$$

Cheers:Nice open setting in the lobby around a large, elegant fountain; great selection of fish, salads; least expensive brunch option at $35 a head. You can pretend you're the crazy nip in Fargo and say to your brunch partner, "Well, it's a Radisson, so you know it's pretty good."
Jeers:Ann Blundy may eat all of your food before you get there, and she might also enviously stare at the female Russian clientelle while cursing and talking to herself! It will depress you seeing her eat alone there. Desserts don't taste quite as good as they look; upstairs American Business Center with copy machines a-copying can detract from the elegant setting.
M: Kievskaya
Phone: 941-8020
Address: Berezhkovskaya Nab. 2, Radisson-Slavyanskaya Hotel
Hours: 12-15

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