Bars in 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.