Vegetarian Cuisine Moscow

AVOCADO

Cuisine: Vegetarian
Address: Chistoprudny Boulevard, 12/2
Nearest metro station: Chistye Prudy, Kurskaya
Telephone: (495) 921-7719
Working hours: 10.00-23.00
Additional service: business lunch, take away service
Average bill: £10
Credit cards: Credit cards: Diners Club, Eurocard, JSB, Master Card, Master/Eurocard, Visa

The menu of the Avocado generously offers best vegetarian dishes of the world cuisine. The speciality of the cafe is healthy and tasty dishes with "awaken seeds" - germs of peas, sesame, flax, pumpkin, sunflower and lentil. Only ecologically clean products and water from the purest springs are used here. The menu features only non-alcoholic drinks - natural juices, all kinds of cocktails, non-alcoholic beer and alcohol-free wines, as well a fine selection of green, black, herbal and fruit tea. At the Avocado you can enjoy healthy and tasty food and a wonderful view onto ponds surrounded by century-old trees. Every Thursday well-known guitarist, A. Kravchenko, plays here offering flamenco, jazz and improvisations.
 

DZHAGANNAT EXPRESS

Cuisine: Vegetarian
Address: Kuznetsky Most, 11
Nearest metro station: Kuznetsky Most
Telephone: (495) 928-3580
Working hours: 11.00-23.00
Additional service: take away service
Average bill: £10
Credit cards: not accepted

“Juggernaut”, as we’re told in the menu, is a centre for healthy eating and socialising, so smoking, alcoholic drinks and swearing are banned. The restaurant follows the Veda philosophy that vegetarianism is the only way of leading a rational and humane existence. There is an eloquent absence of meat, fish and eggs on the menu, all of which is substituted with Soya products. Every evening at 19:00 here take place performances and live music by DJs: ambient, reggae, drum'n'bass, ethno etc. There's also vegetarian food store and ready and cheap vegetarian take-aways. Because of its good location and low prices the restaurant can be used as a fast-food. If you go to the restaurant, they serve healthy vegetarian Indian, Chinese, Japanese meals not expensive: for £8 you'll have a good dinner, for £5 eat-as-much-as-you-can salad bar.
 

OM CAFÉ

Cuisine: Vegetarian, Thai
Address: Novy Arbat, 15/1
Nearest metro station: Arbatskaya
Telephone: (495) 202-1582
Working hours: 11.00 – 00.00
Additional service: business lunch, buffet table
Average bill: £15
Credit cards: American Express, MasterCard, Visa

You will be welcomed here by friendly waitresses in long eastern attires, with amazing handbags embroidered with figures of Buddha. They will offer you Thai or vegetarian menu and treat you to unusual dishes made of ecological healthy products. For starters they serve Salad with wild lilies and vegetables or Salad with white and black wild mushrooms and sea kale, Soup with pickled Thai cabbage and tofu or Vegetable marrow stuffed with special vegetarian meat (made of wheat cellular tissue), Vegetarian lasagne or Tkharo with red beans and battered nut. If rather than having glass noodles or potato packora with deep-fried cheese, you prefer national Thai dishes. Chef from Bangkok Tkhongsunk Ch is also famous for his unusual desserts: saku in coconut milk, bananas in shredded coconut, exotic fruit (longan, ramputan, litchi) served in syrup with ice. 
 

TOFU

Cuisine: Vegetarian, Asian
Address: Malaya Dmitrovka street, 2/4, building 2
Nearest metro station: Pushkinskaya
Telephone: (495) 299-3073
Working hours: 12.00-0.00
Additional service:
Average bill: £15
Credit cards: Master Card, Visa

At last, an unapologetic, centrally located spot for vegetarians in Russia's biggest city. The emphasis is on Asian recipes, from Japanese noodles to Indonesian rice plates, and there's the inevitable sushi bar. The sushi is more organic than elsewhere in town but otherwise can be dismissed. The salads and soups are creative and lighter than those in most Russian restaurants, and the fruit-based desserts are well worth sampling. Tofu, while it does feature on the menu, is not the only nonmeat sustenance. The restaurant's design is rather austere, with bare solid wood tables and minimal wall-coverings. International travellers have made this their favourite spot, as have plenty of young, adventurous Russians.