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Vegetarian food restaurants. Vegan, vegetarian restaurants and cafes of the world

There are not so many vegetarian cafes and restaurants in Moscow yet. However, for a vegetarian, vegan, or raw food diet, there is plenty to eat. All types of vegetarian establishments are represented in the city: canteens, cafes, restaurants, café-cookery. The overwhelming majority of them are located in the center of Moscow. Several interesting establishments are located on the streets, Tverskaya and Bolshaya Dmitrovka - these are beautiful historical streets just 15-20 minutes walk from Red Square. Also, as a rule, there are vegetarian cafes or fast food at fashionable cultural clusters that attract intellectual youth - ArtPlay, Krasny Oktyabr and others.

What is very important, vegetarian dishes are also available in most ordinary restaurants and chain cafes, which are thousands of them in Moscow. This section of the menu becomes especially diverse during Orthodox Lasts (late February - early April and June - early July), when the demand in restaurants for dishes prepared without meat and dairy ingredients increases sharply.

Vegetarian cafes and canteens

In the center of Moscow, it is convenient to visit establishments close to the main attractions. On the popular walking street Maroseyka at 4 there are two vegetarian establishments at once - a canteen Jagannat and cafe « LovingHut "... In the early 2000s, Jagannat was almost the only place in Moscow with vegetarian cuisine. Today it is a chain of six small establishments in the city center. Jagannat is one of the most budget-friendly vegetarian places in Moscow. Here you can have a hearty meal for quite modest money by Moscow standards (the average bill is around 600 rubles).

Jagannat cuisine is a mix of vegetarian dishes from different parts of the world: from India, Europe, Thailand, China, Mexico, and, of course, Russia. Here you can taste such dishes of Russian origin as lean borscht and pearl barley... In general, the abundance of dishes on the menu will not leave even the fastidious visitor hungry. The Jagannat assortment includes many handmade sweets: rasa, burfi, halva, sherbet, peanut fret, yeast-free pastries. We also offer inexpensive set meals (250 rubles). It is usually crowded and noisy here at lunchtime. There is a vegetarian food shop in the dining room. Another institution "Jagannat", which can be reached from the Kremlin in 20 minutes, is located at 11.

« LovingHut "... This is a small vegan cafe. This establishment “for its own” does not have a signboard, so you need to focus on the signboard “Beard”. Directly below it is the entrance to the building, on the 3rd floor of which there is "Loving Hut". Dishes in this cafe are made only from herbal ingredients, including raw food. The menu includes several types of pizzas (450-590 rubles), cutlets made from sunflower and pumpkin seeds with buckwheat (350 rubles), falafel, vegan shawarma, three types of soup for 250 rubles each. From 12 to 16 hours there are business lunches: 250-300 rubles for soup + falafel (or the second day) + tea. In the dessert section there are interesting proposals, for example, chocolate raw food bars made from natural ingredients (200 rubles for 55 g.)

One of the main attractions of Moscow -. There is a cafe directly opposite her main entrance. "Juice" serving vegetarian, vegan and raw foodists. Address: Lavrushinsky lane, 12. The cafe menu includes dishes of Greek, Indian, Italian and Russian cuisine. There is a rich selection of desserts made without eggs or refined sugar, including nuts and dried fruit candies. The menu includes about a dozen salads from 295 to 415 rubles, soups from 225 to 385 rubles, including raw borscht and cream soup made from sprouted buckwheat. The interior features warm light colors and wooden furniture. A cozy art space has been created in the cafe: at lunch or dinner, here you can flip through art albums, read books about artists. From 12 to 16 hours on weekdays, a 20% discount is valid for all menu items.

A 15-minute walk from the Tretyakov Gallery is a small vegetarian establishment "Celery"(Bolshaya Yakimanka str., 32). It is very tiny, literally for two tables. The menu includes a classic set: falafel, chickpea cutlets, hummus, pasta, soups. There are vegetable burgers (250-320 rubles), desserts. Dishes are cooked by baking, but there are some that are suitable for raw foodists. The place is convenient for short snacks, as well as for takeaway food.

If you find yourself in the Center for Design and Architecture "ArtPlay" (Nizhnyaya Syromyatnicheskaya str., 10/12), you will have the opportunity to have a snack in a vegan cafe "Fruits & Veges"... But you need to be prepared for the fact that the atmosphere in it is hipster and super-democratic. The cafe itself looks more like a multi-colored shed, and it is surprising that inside it there is no great crampedness. From 12 to 16 on weekdays there are business lunches (soup + main course + salad) - 250-300 rubles. Falafel roll - 150 RUB

"Self-assembled tablecloth". This is the only cafe in Moscow that prepares only dishes for raw foodists (they do not undergo heat treatment). The cafe is very small. Rather, it's even a freshly prepared raw food store with a couple of tables. It is located not far from the Garden Ring, at st. Lyusinovskaya, 11. The menu includes raw-food pizza (75 rubles per piece), flax cutlets, spelled pancakes, rolls with sunflower seed pate, cakes (150 rubles). Both the name of the cafe and most of the dishes on its menu come from Russians. folk tales... The names of the salads sound like this: "Firebird", "Fur coat of the sea king" (all for 200 rubles). Card payments are not accepted.


"Avocado"... This is a vegetarian, vegan and raw food cafe. There are two Avocados in Moscow - at 5/6 Tverskaya Street and at 12 Chistoprudny Boulevard, building 2. The dishes on the menu are collected here from all over the world: from Italy, France, Greece, the USA, from Asian countries. Here you can choose from several types of pasta, taste risotto, lasagne, hummus or Lebanese eggplant. The interior is made in European style, in light colors. Music concerts are sometimes held in the café. There is a large selection of smoothies and fresh juices on the menu. Raw food dishes in the menu are presented on separate pages, which is very convenient.

"Fresh» — these are two vegetarian restaurants in the medium plus category. Their name echoes the name of a chain of famous Canadian vegetarian cafes. Spouses Dmitry and Irina Azarov imported the idea to Russia and created a very interesting place with good food. The menu includes full hot and cold dishes. For hot meals, all kinds of grilled tofu steaks with herbs, sun-dried tomatoes, sunflower sprouts or beans are offered (from 500 rubles). There are vegetarian burritos (from 550 rubles), burgers with mushrooms, seitano, vegetables and herbs (400-550 rubles). Business lunches are offered on weekdays: juice + soup + sandwich - 250 rubles. In "Fresh" unusual lemonades, for example, a mixture of apple, palm fruit, maccha, mint, lemon or grapefruit, ginger, lemon and grapes, at a price of 250 rubles. The dessert section is very diverse in this restaurant. It offers familiar names to everyone, such as "chocolate brownie", " carrot cake"," Cheesecake "," Napoleon cake "- only created without the use of eggs and milk. There are some unusual desserts like raw chocolate and pineapple pancakes. There is a menu in English.

Institutions "Fresh" are located on Bolshaya Dmitrovka (11) and (Ermolaevsky lane, 10/7). Closer to the Kremlin - a restaurant on Bolshaya Dmitrovka. You can walk here from the heart of the capital in 20 minutes, visiting sights such as the Historical Museum and the Bolshoi Theater along the way. And a visit to the Fresh restaurant on the Patriarch's Ponds can be combined with a stroll through this one of the most picturesque districts of the capital and visiting memorable places associated with the work of the writer Mikhail Bulgakov. Near the Patriarchs, on Bolshaya Sadovaya, there are two museums dedicated to him at once.

This article provides a list of vegetarian cafes and restaurants in Moscow.

Its uniqueness lies in its constant updating - I regularly track closed establishments.

And I also write only about the places I have visited personally. I do not write commercial reviews !!

There are not as many vegetarian, vegan and raw food restaurants and cafes in Moscow as in St. Petersburg, but there are also many, there are plenty to choose from and where to visit.

FOR RAW FOOD

There are many raw food stores in Moscow, and there are only one restaurants (more precisely, cafes). Now it is called "Self-assembled tablecloth".

VEGAN

I would recommend going to a restaurant .


This place is definitely not for respectable ladies and gentlemen. But those who are under 25 may like it. There is a cafe Fruits & Veges on the street Nizh. Syromyatnicheskaya 10, building 12 in the former bunker of the plant. Inside is a stylish mess, the habitat of hippies, or rather hipsters.

They are not much concerned with the quality, storage conditions of food and cleanliness, but they pay a lot of attention to the interior - it is really stylish and inexpensive here. And everything is clearly vegan. Although good food (soups, hot dishes, etc.) appears there only after 12:00. ...

Earlier, there was a vegan fast food in Moscow, but then it flew away and closed, although it promised to return to open again closer to the center. We are waiting). And it was inexpensive and very - very good ...

VEGETARIANS - CONSIDERATIONS OF INDIA AND VEDIC COOKING

We offer you the best vegetarian, vegan and raw food cafes in Moscow. Information on these types of establishments is especially important for those who do not accept food of animal origin in the menu, adhere to the meat-free principle of nutrition, or want to try something new in the direction of gastronomy.

This page contains best options that will meet the needs for different occasions and taste preferences.

Vegetarian restaurant in Moscow

Eating a delicious dinner, having a romantic date, or ordering a lavish banquet with well-prepared plant-based dishes is easy! The page contains the best restaurants in Moscow, which will delight you with a cozy atmosphere, vegan delights and, of course, friendly service.

To quickly find a vegetarian restaurant, you should use a filter that will help you sort the establishments by type, rating, location. Each cafe is offered detailed description with status ratings and reviews from real visitors. After reading the descriptions, you can choose the appropriate option in just a few minutes. The following information will help to draw preliminary conclusions:

  • Working hours;
  • Features of the kitchen;
  • Description of the interior and surrounding area;
  • Average price tag and characteristics of individual dishes.

All this is in the descriptions of every establishment in Moscow offering vegetarian cuisine.

Vegan cafe in Moscow

There are small cafes in Moscow where you can sit in a quiet and cozy atmosphere, drink fresh juice and taste a delicious salad of fresh vegetables and fruits. If you need space for a celebration or a large-scale party, you can take a closer look at large restaurant complexes with large halls and open areas.

It is worth noting that some restaurants specialize in only one vegetarian cuisine, while others offer a choice (for example, French, Caucasian cuisine, children's menu.). And some of them do not process food thermally at all, for lovers of this - go to the raw food restaurants and cafes of Moscow.

Once upon a time in vegetarian Moscow there was only one "Jagannat", now everything has changed and vegetarian cafes are beginning to appear in the city, not only without an esoteric bias, but also with a gastronomic one. The Village, as a food publication in general, is looking for cafes and restaurants where it really tastes good, and it doesn't matter if they are vegetarian, Korean or meat-based. We are convinced that a limited list of foods - avoiding the use of meat, fish, and anything else - cannot be an excuse for the freshness of food. Vegetarian food, like any other, should be tasty and interesting. To find just one, The Village decided to explore everything that is on the green Moscow market. We found about 20 cafes and restaurants: vegetarian, vegan and raw food. Today the first ten: Fruits & Veges, Moscow-Delhi, Pico-co Café, Fresh, What the Food ?, Lifestyle, Jagannat, Raw Lunch, Receptor and a cafe at NYM Yoga studio.

Fruits & Veges

Vegan Cafe Short Menu

Muscovite Anton Lubny opened a new vegan cafe on the territory of Artplay. Anton is a vegan, not a fan of esotericism, but he understands that lentil soup should cost no more than 100 rubles - it was with this thought that he decided to open his place. In the implementation of his plans, it was not investors who actively helped him, but his friends. In particular, the interior of the new cafe, built in the form of an amphitheater with transforming tables, was made by the Yunaya architectural bureau headed by Misha Antonov (this agency was recently posted on Furfur).









The cafe has a capacity of 30 seats, but many take takeaway here. At the very bottom there is a bar counter and an open kitchen. Freshly squeezed juices (80 rubles) and smoothies (150 rubles) are prepared behind the bar. Next to the counter there is a temporary coffee shop of the Cherny cooperative. The presence of coffee enthusiasts in the fruit and vegetable house is not surprising: the projects have the same pricing principles. There are eight people in the team in total. These, according to the organizers, are "enterprising guys, most of whom combine work with study on the territory of Artplay": in the BHSAD, the Moscow School of New Cinema and the MARCH School of Architecture.

From suppliers Fruits & Veges choose not farmers and markets, but the usual "Auchan", Metro and a couple of other places, discovered empirically by the owner himself. There is no permanent menu - they talk about it with caution, since the declared one may not appear. A more or less stable menu usually contains falafel (150 rubles) and soups (borsch, hodgepodge, lentil) from seasonal vegetables... They plan to introduce breakfasts with pancakes and porridge. Falafel is cooked by a guy from Sevastopol - Yura Us. They say in the cafe that he specially came to Moscow to cook it here according to a certain recipe. It looks like a whipping up of unjustified importance: the falafel is not bad, but not at all such as to go after it on purpose. The falafel balls themselves are fried in advance, not after receiving the order; tomatoes from the conventional "Auchan" in a decent cafe in winter should simply be banned: there is definitely no health in this. You can temporarily replace them, for example, with a trade wind.

In the kitchen, alternately, but not regularly, two cooks work. Behind the bar, the bartender Kostya from the now closed Vegabar is experimenting. In the evenings one of the tables downstairs is occupied by a DJ. In the future, for the DJ, they want to make a separate wheelhouse in the wall above the bar. While the cafe in a van with a bomb shelter (this is not a joke: downstairs near the bar you can see two impressive locks - behind one of them is equipped with a wardrobe for employees) looks more like a student house than an institution aimed at business. The owner himself says that his main desire is to "create his own atmosphere" so that "it is comfortable on one side of the rack and on the other."

"Moscow-Delhi"

Indian vegetarian food
in a tiny room

Vegetarian workshop "Moscow-Delhi" was opened by a young couple with no experience in restaurant business: Galina Efimovna Kalinina, formerly involved in filmmaking, and Bott Johan Michael, French, who previously worked as a theater director. The food chief at Sumit Café Rewa Raguwanshi is a chef from Delhi. There are only three small tables in the room, at the same time it can fit up to 15 people. They use mostly organic products (half are brought from India), they do not use electric tools when preparing food - everything is done by hand.












During the day, food is prepared for dinner together: Sumit, Galya, Yohan and a couple of assistants. The restaurant opens for guests at six o'clock, on weekends you can agree and come earlier. There is no menu as such - the dishes are changed every day, sometimes repeating. There is no meat, fish, poultry or eggs. The food is simple: whole grain organic flour cakes, dal, vegetables.

On weekends, they make tali - a dish of rice, yogurt and sabja with a lot of spices and spices. For sweets, traditional Indian desserts are served burfi, baked milk gulabjamun and carrot halva. But for all its simplicity, here, like nowhere else on our list, it is precisely the gastronomic approach that is felt. Unlike most Indian restaurants in Moscow, which use ready-made spice mixes and other store-bought ingredients for cooking, Moscow-Delhi does everything from scratch on its own.

It happens that there is nowhere to sit in "Moscow-Delhi", but other times there is almost no one. Therefore, of course, you can try to come without an appointment, and if you're lucky, delicious dinner guaranteed to you. But it is still better to sign up, because during the day they cook here exactly for the number of people who are waiting for the evening. There is a dinner for one thousand rubles along with drinks. There is no alcohol, perhaps biodynamic wine will appear later.

Pico-co Café

Vegan food at the car wash and delivery

Getting into Pico-co from the street is not easy, so few people know about this vegetarian cafe. It is located on the second floor of a car wash on Yauzskaya embankment, a four-minute walk from the main entrance of Artplay. The idea of ​​the project belongs to the yoga-astrologer Nikita Kitin, the traveler-snowboarder Artyom Dikanov and the architect and concurrently consultant on Ayurveda Anastasia Nechiporenko.





There is nothing memorable inside: two halls - a large and a small one with a counter, a couple of televisions on the walls - in general, as it should be in a cafe, where visitors wait while their car is washed. With one exception: all food, including desserts, is vegan.

The menu includes salads and snacks, three sandwiches in a pita for 150 rubles each - "Vostochny", "Lobio" and "Chili". There are also soups that change depending on the day of the week, while miso with seaweed is always available. Initially, the food was prepared by the owners themselves, but now they have hired and trained staff.

The team has far-reaching plans to subscribe chefs from Syria or India to cook truly authentic national dishes. Owners find suppliers themselves.

For those who do not want to wander along the Yauzskaya embankment and make a close acquaintance with the washing staff, there is a delivery service in the cafe, however, now it covers only the territories of Artplay, Winzavod and Arma. In addition, Pico-co provides snacks to some of Moscow's yoga studios, including its own Yoga.Point. Another area of ​​Pico-co's activity is catering for parties and celebrations. Mainly meze is prepared for events. There are no restrictions in the geography of delivery. In the future, the guys want to develop a network of vegetarian fast foods in the south of Russia.

Fresh Cafe

Huge selection of drinks from fruits, berries
and vegetables with strange names

Fresh is a Canadian-imported vegetarian cafe that belongs to the chain that was invented in the late 90s by Ruth Tal. On the Russian side, the spouses Dmitry and Irina Azarov are responsible for the cafe on Bolshaya Dmitrovka. Both are adherents of vegetarianism and a healthy lifestyle. Before the opening, Irina went to Toronto for an internship, and Ruth, in turn, came to Moscow during the launch of the cafe. As a result, Moscow Fresh has turned out to be more modern and fresher than the Canadian ones, whose interiors have already become outdated. The Moscow interior was handled by the bureau of the sisters Olga and Irina Sundukov. But the menu in the restaurants of both countries is similar.














The easiest way to compare the menu is by cocktails: Ruth came up with some of the recipes 15 years ago. All drinks are prepared in front of the guests, behind a small bar. In addition to mixtures of fruits, berries and vegetables, Fresh makes Whitgrass shots (100 rubles, double - 200 rubles) from young wheat shoots, and also adds nutritious protein to some cocktails.

There is an option to create juice according to your own recipe - three ingredients from the list will cost 275 rubles per 250 milliliters. Food suppliers are different, there are a lot of them, as the institution tries to maintain a high level of food quality.

The kitchen in Moscow Fresh was set up by Ruth's friend, chef and vegan surfer Ricardo Morales. Now he opens with her new restaurant in his native Mexico. The owners promise that by the summer Morales will definitely visit the establishment and, possibly, update the menu. Home in the kitchen in his absence - Ekaterina Agapova. She prepares salads, hot dishes with basmati rice, buckwheat or noodles, seasoning them with tofu and chickpeas. There are five types of burgers on the menu (400 rubles) made from legumes, grains and vegetables, which vegetarians say they come here can confuse meat-eaters. Prices correspond to the location: a large portion of a hot dish is 550 rubles, a small portion is 200 rubles cheaper, salads are 450 rubles. There are lunches for 400 rubles. Fresh also cooks falafel (450 rubles), deep-fried onion rings (250 rubles) and sweet potato fries (300 rubles).

The menu contains alcohol, but unusual: organic wines (Kalis Chardonnay Grillo Sicilia Igt 2011 and Kalis Nero D "avola Shiraz Sicilia Igt 2011), biodynamic wines (Mongrana 2009, San Pietro Nero 2011 and San Pietro Gavi Docg 2011 ) and organic unfiltered beer Brunehaut.In the spring it is planned to open another full-fledged establishment under the name Fresh.

What the Food?

Delivery service "surprise lunch"

What The Food? is not a cafe, but a service whose subscribers receive every time different lunch of the ingredients listed on the Facebook page. The service for the delivery of "surprise meals" was invented by friends Masha Fedorova and Natasha Shashkova, who had previously worked in Moscow advertising agencies. The girls collected money for the project using the Boomstarter crowdsourcing platform. The WTF debut took place at the Forma New Year Festival in Artplay. Those who wished were offered to buy intriguing boxes with secret contents.





Natasha and Masha are vegetarians, so now they cook exclusively dinners from vegetables, however, they use cheese and milk. The girls publish colorful photos with the ingredients of the future lunch on the WTF Facebook page, where customers can evaluate the composition and place an order. The girls also take photos themselves, put on the lights and arrange photo shoots at home.

The cost of one serving weighing 450 grams is 350 rubles. Delivery is carried out by the Smartomato service, from two meals it is free, for one you have to pay 200 rubles. Masha and Natasha cook together, do it either in their own equipped kitchen, or at friends in a cafe. Recipes and combinations are created by themselves at weekly meetings. Products are now bought in markets and hypermarkets such as "Auchan". In the future, fish will be added as a new ingredient, but they promise to leave a completely vegetarian set to choose from.

Now, aspiring entrepreneurs are actively involved in the preparation of all the documents necessary for working with food, and by summer they dream of opening their own cafe or small kiosk on the territory of some creative cluster or park.

"Lifestyle"

Vegetarian Israeli food

The "Lifestyle" restaurant on Prechistenka is not entirely vegetarian, but its menu contains vegetarian dishes in almost every section. The founders Julia Gurevich and Katya Volgina were passionate about a healthy lifestyle, from this passion four and a half years ago, the concept, name and place itself emerged. Before "Way of Life" they tried their hand at a small cafe on the territory of the "Yug" business center.














According to Yulia's calculations, vegetarian positions in the cafe make up a quarter of the menu. Everything is cooked by the chef from Israel Oleg Waldman. Oleg graduated from the Tel Aviv cook school, worked in the Israeli army, and then in the restaurant of the Crowne Plaza hotel on the Mediterranean Sea. He also came to Moscow at the invitation of the Crowne Plaza chain.

The chef's roots can be traced in the menu, there is a whole section with Israeli dishes: shakshuka - Israeli scrambled eggs (229 rubles), falafel with tahini (399 rubles), hummus, tabbouleh, various pickles. The products are bought from small trusted suppliers - the Standard Vkusa farm network and the Zdorvenkovo ​​farm; Gurevich herself regularly brings spices from Israel.

The restaurant's space resembles a living room in a country house with lamps under shades and wooden chairs of Soviet design. Music from Elvis Presley to Lana Del Rey plays in the background. The institution is designed for 60 seats. Cafes oppose televisions, and also give a discount if guests gathered at the same table turn off their phones and put aside.

Jagannat

Vegetarian canteen

The oldest vegetarian cafe in Moscow, opened by entrepreneur and yogi Georgy Aistov. Aistov is one of the organizers of the Ethnomir Vegetarian Festival, and now he is engaged in the Samurai: 47 Ronin exhibition project. Over the fourteen years of its existence, "Jagannat" from a restaurant with an esoteric bias has turned into a kind of vegetarian fast food. Now, in addition to the main cafe on Kuznetsky Most, there are three more establishments at Kurskaya, Taganskaya and Maroseyka








Yaroslav Smirnov is responsible for the new cafes of the chain. He is also the ideologue for Vegetarian magazine, which is distributed in all cafes. Chef-technologist Anatoly Vedensky is engaged in the menu of all four. He has been working at Jagannath for over ten years and ensures compliance with all technologies and recipes. Products for cafes are collected from all over the world: spices are brought from India and Thailand, tofu and soy milk are ordered in Europe, some ingredients are ordered in Mexico. Vegetables have been ordered from the same supplier for many years in a row.

On the menu: vegetarian snacks, salads, soups and indian sweets from saffron, sesame, macrobiotic desserts. Everything costs ridiculous money by Moscow standards, but Jagannat tastes like a canteen. There are options for vegans. Also under the roof of "Jagannath" they sell vegetarian and dietary products(cereals, soy products, seeds for sprouting, tofu) and hold various events, from concerts of ethnic music to culinary master classes.

"Raw lunch"

Raw food cafe on Gilyarovskogo

The raw food cafe has grown this summer to the store of the same name, opened by Svetlana Zemtsova a couple of years ago. The founder of the project has come a long way from vegetarian to raw food diet. She started with what she herself began to do chocolate candies from raw food ingredients. Now this technology is actively used in cafes. According to Aleksey, the assistant manager, they are not looking for suppliers in the cafe or in the store - they come on their own. After that, their products are checked for compliance with the requirements and the availability of the necessary certification. They are checked in the laboratory by the raw food biologist Yuri Frolov, he is also the owner of his own ecovillage in the Tver region and supplies greens, vegetables and fruits. The Raw Dinner employees adhere to the principles of a raw food diet. True, they admit that sometimes they break down for vegetarianism.











The cafe prepares raw salad made of avocado, zucchini, mung bean and cucumbers, seasoned with raw mayonnaise (large portion - 100 rubles, small portion - 50 rubles), pizza on a raw food crust (100 rubles per slice). There are several types of rolls - almond, pumpkin seeds and wakame seaweed (six pieces - 150 rubles).

Drinks are used to make cocktails from guarana, acai, whitgrass, chia seeds and other currently advertised ingredients with the addition of apples, bananas or oranges. Depending on the amount of fruit, the price ranges from 150 to 200 rubles per 200 milliliters. There are freshly squeezed juices (200 milliliters - 100 rubles) and raw cocoa from almonds (100 rubles).

Food and drinks are prepared right there, controlled with a blender. Here you can buy prepackaged unsweetened bread and raw kozinaki - 120 and 130 rubles, respectively. This is the end of the menu. But the newly arrived management team promises to revolutionize soon: to introduce a full-fledged menu with new interesting dishes and maybe hire a chef. The plans of the team are equal to the St. Petersburg raw food cafe "Ukrop".

Now "Raw Lunch" also works according to the "anti-cafe" system - for 100 rubles an hour you get tea (it can be heated if you wish, but there are also cold herbal infusions), raw candy and working Wi-Fi.

The interior of the cafe in the basement is modest in raw food style. To get inside, you must definitely take off your shoes - there is a carpet on the floor. In general, the room is designed for 60 seats, which are easily filled during events - raw food and environmental seminars.

"Receptor"

Korean and European vegetarian cuisine

The first institution with the name "Receptor" started working on Bolshaya Nikitskaya in 2010. The spouses Alexander Brailovsky and Nadezhda Pak opened their second cafe nearby, in Bolshoy Kozikhinsky, a year ago. Alexander is a vegetarian with fourteen years of experience, Nadezhda adheres to a pescetarian diet (that is, she eats fish). The spouses themselves cook in the cafe according to home recipes. The menu features a mixture of Korean and European cuisines. The origin of the hostess influenced the formation of such a combination: Nadezhda Pak is Korean, she has been cooking since she was five and knows a lot. traditional recipes and family culinary secrets. Both restaurants promote a healthy lifestyle, do not use dyes, preservatives and flavor enhancers in food preparation.










The menu has a large selection of vegetarian rolls, several vegetarian soups: lentil (370 rubles), pumpkin "Receptor" (350 rubles) and Korean "Tendyantige" with a bowl of rice for 390 rubles. Among the hot vegetarian dishes, there are, for example, beet cutlets with spinach leaves and pumpkin seeds (280 rubles). Buns are made from chickpea flour, and agar is used in desserts instead of gelatin. They prepare baked goods on their own, and they themselves make jam and smoke fish.

Dorogomilovsky and Kuntsevsky markets, as well as small farms, are chosen from suppliers. The menu of the establishments looks like it is mainly fish and vegetarian dishes.

The capacity of the cafe on Nikitskaya is 50 seats, the second - 80. The design tried to reflect the concept of a cozy home cafe- chairs made of untreated wood, many lamps with warm light, on the walls - reproductions of paintings by Larionov and other artists. They did the interior themselves: Aleksandr Brailovsky was assisted by the designer Aleksey Petrov. Musical evenings are organized on Friday and Saturday nights with live music.

NYM Yoga Studio Cafe

Vegan cafe at the yoga studio

The yoga studio is hidden in the alleys of the Arbat, the entrance to it is at the end of the building 4/5 on Plotnikov lane. The establishment occupies the entire basement floor. You can get to the cafe without attending classes, but there are usually no casual guests here.





NYM Yoga, founded by Ekaterina Kushner, is the only center in Moscow where jivamukti yoga is taught, a yoga direction founded by Western ideologists. For employees, in addition to the practice of vinyasas, meditations and mantras, an ethical attitude towards the world around is important. The studio maintains within its walls a special Greenpeace program "Green Office".

The cafe is run by a woman with an exotic appearance and Armenian-Jewish roots. Aida is a vegetarian, she cooks and comes up with recipes here from the very beginning. The cafe began with a small tea bar, where they periodically ordered food from vegetarian stores. Now the kitchen is equipped with household appliances, there are even small ovens for baking. The menu is vegan. In the presence of dishes from buckwheat, legumes, bulgur, couscous, quinoa, rice. There is hummus (250 rubles) and rolls with avocado (250 rubles). Freshly squeezed juices (180-200 rubles), fruit cocktails and lassi (from 210 rubles), hot teas, infusions (rosehip infusion - 150 rubles) and masala are prepared from drinks. There are also desserts: a vegetarian muffin (150 rubles) and carrot cake(160 rubles). All this can be eaten and drunk either at the bar counter, or in a separate room - the rest room. There are several tables, including one large communal table with benches.

Fruits and vegetables are purchased from the "Fruit Company", spices and coconut oil - from "Indian Spices". Much is transported from the nearby Happy Vegan Shop.

Photos: Olya Eikhenbaum, Lena Grusitskaya, Mark Boyarsky, Gleb Leonov, Semyon Katz, What The Food /