Bars

Moscow, Moscow

Arkady Novikov's Moscow restaurant group has built the most comprehensive and acclaimed hospitality empire in Russia — a collection of outstanding restaurants and bars across Moscow that has set the standard for Russian luxury dining and cocktail culture for three decades. Novikov's extraordinary contribution to elevating Russian restaurant and bar culture to international standards and his remarkable role as Russia's most influential restaurateur create bars of considerable Russian hospitality significance.

Petrovka ul. 20/1, Moscow, 107031

Moscow, Moscow

Moscow's Arbat Street bar scene represents one of Russia's most legendary pedestrian entertainment corridors — the famous "Arbat" street immortalized in Russian literature and song, where the spirit of 19th-century Russian Romanticism, Soviet-era bohemian dissidence, and contemporary Russian nightlife coexist in one of Moscow's most culturally charged urban environments. The Arbat's extraordinary literary and artistic heritage (Pushkin had a house here, and Bulat Okudzhava immortalized the street in his songs) and its vibrant contemporary bar scene create bars of genuine Russian cultural heritage significance.

ul. Arbat 12, Moscow, 119002

Moscow, Moscow

Moscow's craft cocktail scene has emerged as one of the most sophisticated in Eastern Europe — a city where the extraordinary wealth concentration, cosmopolitan ambitions, and remarkable Russian bartending talent have created a cocktail culture that has produced multiple World's 50 Best Bars honorees. Moscow's outstanding craft cocktail bars represent a remarkable Russian luxury culture development that has placed the city firmly on the global cocktail circuit.

Mystnicheskiy per. 5, Moscow, 101000

Moscow, Moscow

Mendeleev Bar in Moscow is a speakeasy cocktail institution named after the Russian chemist who invented the periodic table — a hidden bar accessed through a secret bookcase entrance that has been one of Moscow's most celebrated and inventive cocktail experiences for over a decade. The bar's extraordinary theatrical entrance concept and its outstanding cocktail program have made it one of the most distinctive bar experiences in Russia.

Petrovka ul. 20/1, Moscow, 107031

Moscow, Moscow

Moscow's rooftop bar scene offers extraordinary views over one of Europe's most spectacular and historically complex cityscapes — a city of 12 million where Soviet Stalinist skyscrapers (the famous "Seven Sisters" Gothic towers built 1947-1953), onion-domed cathedrals, Imperial baroque palaces, and ultra-modern contemporary towers create a skyline unlike any other on earth. Moscow's extraordinary architectural diversity and its remarkable contemporary luxury culture create rooftop bar experiences of considerable Russian cosmopolitan significance.

Tverskaya ul. 3, Moscow, 125009

Moscow, Moscow

Pravda Bar near Pushkin Square in Moscow is a sophisticated craft cocktail bar named with characteristic Russian irony for the legendary Soviet propaganda newspaper, offering an outstanding cocktail program in the heart of the Russian capital's most culturally and historically charged district. The bar's remarkable location near Pushkin Square (where some of the first and most courageous Soviet-era dissident demonstrations took place) and its excellent cocktail quality create a bar of considerable Russian historical and contemporary cultural significance.

Tverskoy bulv. 16/1, Moscow, 125009

Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast

Novosibirsk is Russia's third largest city and the capital of Siberia — a remarkable scientific and cultural center in the heart of the Asian continent where the extraordinary Akademgorodok (Academic City, one of the world's greatest concentrations of scientific research institutions) and Russia's largest opera house outside Moscow create a bar culture shaped by Russian intellectual and academic traditions. Novosibirsk's remarkable identity as the capital of Russian Siberia and its surprising cultural sophistication create bars of considerable Russian regional significance.

Krasny pr. 17, Novosibirsk, 630099

Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg

El Copitas in Saint Petersburg is consistently ranked among the World's 50 Best Bars — a Mexican-themed speakeasy bar operating on a voluntary contribution basis (guests are asked to pay what they think the experience was worth) that has become one of the most extraordinary and acclaimed bar experiences in Europe. El Copitas's remarkable voluntary payment model and its extraordinary agave spirit program have made it one of the most discussed and celebrated bars in the world.

Potëmkinskaya ul. 7, Saint Petersburg, 191123

Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg's Nevsky Prospekt bar scene represents the most historically magnificent urban bar corridor in Russia — the main avenue of Peter the Great's imperial capital city, stretching 4.5 km from the Admiralty to the Alexander Nevsky Monastery through the heart of one of the world's most architecturally extraordinary cities. Nevsky Prospekt's remarkable concentration of outstanding bars, restaurants, and cultural institutions creates a bar environment of extraordinary Russian imperial heritage significance.

Nevsky pr. 24, Saint Petersburg, 191186

Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg's Vasilyevsky Island bar scene creates extraordinary nightlife experiences in the city built by Peter the Great on reclaimed Neva River delta islands — a city whose extraordinary White Nights (when the sun barely sets for several weeks in June and July) create a summer nightlife culture unique in the world, where bars and clubs remain packed at 4am in full daylight. Saint Petersburg's remarkable White Nights phenomenon and its extraordinary imperial architecture create bar experiences of genuine Russian atmospheric significance.

Sredny pr. 36, Vasilyevsky Island, Saint Petersburg, 199053