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Famous for its entertaining culinary shows, with chefs cooking your food on a teppan (hot metal plate) right at your table, Moscow’s Benihana also offers a wide selection of sushi, salads and soups. A great location on Pushkin Square, the city’s favourite meeting spot, ensures a steady flow of customers so a reservation is advisable.
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This huge Chinese restaurant works on a different concept to all others in Moscow. Everyone who attends, dining or not, will be charged the fixed price (approximately 500 roubles, varies between weekdays and weekends) for the buffet, and there are no exceptions. Nor is there any menu (except for drinks). Unlimited green tea is included and you’re then let loose on the largest Chinese buffet in Moscow, including cold appetisers, hot appetisers, main dishes, soups, rice, noodles, breads, desserts, ice creams and sorbets. The choice is immense, the quality excellent and the quantity vast. Modern Shanghai-style Chinese decor in one of the best value places in town.
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Shatush serves stunning Asiatic cuisine (Chinese, Thai and Viet[name]se) but avoids all the tired clichés of Chinese decor—no bamboo, red lanterns or Kazak girls pretending to be Chinese. Instead it’s top-end Shanghai modern, and the clientele are media and showbiz types. The atmosphere is elegant but informal and the ingredients are flown in from Asia to order by the owners.
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Shiolk offers very nicely prepared food, despite a location looking onto a railway station (around the corner from the Marriott Tverskaya). However, Shiolk’s best-kept secret is something you’ll need assistance finding. From 15:30 onwards, it has a marvellous oriental tea room downstairs in the basement, with mattresses on which to lounge while drinking a range of fine 'collectors’ teas. They will also, within reason, serve you items from the upstairs menu downstairs. The entrance to the tea room is from the grimy back courtyard, where you have to ring a doorbell at what looks for all the world like a disreputable massage parlour entrance. Researched beforehand, the tea room offers you the chance to astound your local partners with your insider knowledge of Moscow’s hidden gems.
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