Arab restaurants in Moscow: addresses, menus, reviews

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

To taste Arabic cuisine these days, you don't have to go on a long journey: you can easily find such establishments in Moscow. Arabic cuisine restaurants with addresses are presented in this article. A brief description of them and guest reviews are given.

Abu Ghosh

This restaurant is located at 42 Sivtsev Vrazhek lane, building 5. Nearby metro stations are Smolenskaya and Kropotkinskaya.

Restaurant opening hours are every day from 9 am to 11 pm.

Average check is 400-800 rubles.

Abu Gosh in Moscow is a small restaurant with an open kitchen, painted white brick walls, pink cabinets and chairs, tiles with oval patterns, a communal table, high tables by the windows, handmade crockery, an antique fountain brought from Rome.

The establishment has an extensive authentic menu, which features several types of hummus, salads (shanglish, fattoush, tabouleh), snacks (batata-harra, falafel, zeitim, gwina levana), sambusiki (Arabic pies with different fillings), flatbread laffa, desserts (knafe, baklava, kataef).

Coffee is prepared exclusively in the oriental way -with cardamom or with milk and spices. The restaurant has free water, which you can pour right in the hall.

Visitors of the restaurant really like the interior and atmosphere in the cafe, the courtesy and attentiveness of the staff. They are satisfied with the taste of the food, but note that the portions are too small. Hummus and Lebanese coffee are especially praised. Not everyone likes an open kitchen in a small room, because of which the clothes are saturated with the smell of food. Some considered the small room a disadvantage (it gets cold when the door is opened in winter), there are complaints about the speed of service, errors in the order happen.

Scheherazade

This Arabic restaurant in Moscow is located near the VDNKh metro station, at 17 Yaroslavskaya Street, in the building of the Globus Hotel (on the ground floor).

Working schedule - from 7 to 3 hours daily.

Average check - 1500-2000 rubles, beer - 200 rubles per glass.

The restaurant offers Arabic and European cuisine. Special offers include a grilled menu, halal and meatless dishes.

The restaurant "Scheherazade" has a summer terrace, which is open during the warm season. Live broadcasts are arranged for sports fans. Here you can order breakfast and business lunch, take coffee with you, pay by card. There is secure parking next to the hotel.

The Arabic menu features cold starters, salads, hot starters, soups, hot dishes and charcoal dishes.

Popular dishes includethe following:

• Hummus - peas whipped with olive oil and tahina.
• Mtabal - eggplant puree, grilled with garlic and sesame oil.
• Beans with tomatoes.
• Muhallal - pickles with garlic and hot peppers.
• Salads - fattoush, tabbouleh, with ayran and fresh cucumbers, with arugula, etc.
• Ful is a dish of boiled beans, fresh tomatoes, garlic, herbs, with lemon juice and olive oil.
• Sampuseki (patties) with cheese and herbs, meat and pine nuts.
• Arabian pita with cheese/minced lamb.
• Shawarma with chicken/meat.
• Lentil soup.
• Kyufta - minced lamb with tomatoes, onions and spices.
• Sharhat matfieh - veal chop.
• Fatte - peas whipped with tahina, Arabic pita, lamb, pickles and garlic.
• Lulya kebab and kebabs in stock.

On Saturday and Sunday, the Scheherazade is waiting for guests at the buffet from 12 to 18 hours. Arabic dishes, various salads, snacks, desserts, oriental sweets, tea are offered.

In the positive reviews about the restaurant, you can read about delicious food, great hookah and oriental dances, good breakfasts and business lunches. Those who left negative reviews are dissatisfied with the service and the meager choice of dishes.

Tazhineria

Tazhineria is a Moroccan restaurant in Moscow with an average bill of 800 to 1200 rubles. The institution is located on the Danilovsky market at the address: Mytnaya street, 74.

Guests are welcome daily from 8 am to 9 pm.

Restaurantis a food zone in the Danilovsky market. In addition to the main dishes, breakfasts and business lunches are served here.

In "Tazhineria" you can order:

• Couscous with lamb ribs and vegetables/shrimp.
• Vegetarian couscous with baked vegetables.
• Arabic rice.
• Green beans.
• Moroccan flatbread.
• Moroccan Meze.
• Beet soup.
• Homemade cheese.
• Hariru with chickpeas and lamb.
• Moroccan bouillabaisse.
• Hummus.
• Berber tagine with vegetables and chicken/leg of lamb.
• Fish tagine.
• Chicken/lamb sausages on the way out.
• Beef kyuftu with potatoes.

Fans of Moroccan cuisine quite appreciate the quality of the local food. The pluses include a wide selection of dishes, large portions, fast service. Of the shortcomings, they note the difficulty in finding a free place.

Kasbar

Restaurant "Kasbar" in Moscow is located at the address: Turchanov pereulok, 3, building 5/Ostozhenka, 53/6. The nearest metro stations are Park Kultury and Kropotkinskaya.

The establishment is open from 12 noon until the last customer.

The club-restaurant is located on two floors. The hall on the ground floor has a capacity of 60 seats. The interior is made in the style of the Ancient East. The hall on the second floor is decorated in high-tech style and can accommodate up to 110 guests. There is a hookah in the halls, in the evening you can watch belly dance here.

Besides the halls, the restaurant has a summer terrace. On the territory therepavilions: Chinese, Arabic, Japanese and European.

The establishment has a dress code and face control.

This Arabic restaurant in Moscow is famous for dishes made from lamb according to old recipes: kebabs and costalets. Visitors are offered famous Arabic snacks:

• Babachanuzh.
• Falafel.
• Hummus.
• Arabian sweets.

In addition to Arabic cuisine, you can order European and Japanese dishes. Of the European dishes, the most popular are: salmon tartare, arugula with king prawns, Poseidon salad, hot foie gras, roast duck with figs, sea bream fillet. The Japanese menu has a large selection of rolls.

On Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays the restaurant hosts club parties. Banquets and private parties can be organized here.

There are not so many reviews about this Arabic cuisine restaurant in Moscow, and they are generally good. Most people like the food and the staff, the hookah, the prices, the summer terrace. The institution is more designed for lovers of oriental cuisine. According to some guests, the interior in the Arabic style is not for everyone, too intrusive, while to other guests, on the contrary, it seemed like an oriental fairy tale.

Sugar

Sahara is a chain of oriental restaurants on the Moscow Ring Road with an interior resembling a tent: gilded decor elements, draperies on the ceiling and walls, lamps, tubs with palm trees.

In the menu of the Sahara restaurant, in addition to the forge of the East, there are European, Russian and Georgian dishes. From special offers: children,lenten, seasonal menu, grilled and halal food.

Visitors of the institution are offered such types of services as:

• Food delivery.
• Sports broadcasts.
• Breakfasts.
• Coffee to go.
• Karaoke.
• Children's room.
• Live music.
• Dancefloor.
• 24-hour kitchen.
• Free parking.

Besides this, the restaurant has its own bakery, a summer terrace, a small garden with a living corner and a pond.

The average bill in "Sahara" is 1500 rubles, not including drinks.

The institution works around the clock.

You can find a restaurant at the following addresses:

• MKAD, 34th kilometer, building 6. Lesoparkovaya metro station.
• MKAD, 26th kilometer, building 6. Orekhovo metro station.
• MKAD, 73rd kilometer, house 7, bldg. 1. Planernaya metro station.
• MKAD, 56th kilometer, building 10. Molodezhnaya metro station (temporarily closed due to fire).

There are a lot of good reviews about the restaurant. Guests write about the warm atmosphere, delicious shawarma - the best in the city, colorful interior, great variety on the menu, fairly large portions, friendly staff, fast service. Among the shortcomings, poor access and difficulties with parking, inflated prices are noted. There are also negative reviews about Sahara, which mainly refer to insufficiently polite staff.

Mr. Lebanese

The restaurant is located in Glinishevsky lane, 3, not far from the Tverskaya metro station.

Opening Hours:

• Sunday-Thursday– from 12 to 00 hours.
• Friday and Saturday from 12:00 to 2:00.

The restaurant serves breakfasts and set meals, provides a food delivery service, packs coffee to go.

Average check per person is 1000-1500 rubles.

The menu features authentic Lebanese dishes, including:

• Cold maza including: hummus, labni, mutabal, baba ghanoush, shanglish, satat tabuli and fattoush, flatbreads.
• Hot maza: sambusiki with cheese and spinach, kibby, falafel, makanek, sujuk.
• Mashaui: lamb, veal, chicken wings, kebab, shish-tauk, castalette, sauces.
• Desserts: borazek, kataif, Lebanese coffee.
• Soups: spicy lamb, sabaneh, vegetarian makhluta, cold laban.
• Hot dishes: steaks (rib-eye, Beirut, tee-bon, New York, salmon, etc.), dajaj mehshi, daoud basha, couscous and others.

Judging by the reviews, this Arabic restaurant in Moscow makes a good impression on visitors. Guests write that this is a cozy place with a beautiful interior, pleasant music, polite waiters, delicious authentic cuisine. According to many, the true atmosphere of Lebanon is not here.

Persia

The restaurant is located on Krasnokholmskaya embankment, at 1/15, next to the Taganskaya metro station.

From Monday to Saturday guests are served from 12 to 5 o'clock, on Sunday - from 12 to 00 o'clock.

The average check is 1500 rubles, the price of a business lunch is 390 rubles.

BThe restaurant serves a business lunch, delivers food, packs coffee to go, offers craft beer, sports broadcasts. There is a children's room, a summer terrace, a projector and ten screens, an English menu, board games, a bar counter, live music, a dance floor, children's animation, free parking and their own bakery.

In addition to the main menu, there are children's, seasonal, lenten, halal, fitness, pancake, grill, kosher, exotic and diet.

Many guests like the decor, atmosphere, cuisine, quality of service. Visitors write about polite staff, cleanliness and comfort, delicious dishes, beautiful interior. There are complaints about small portions.

Marrakesh

The restaurant is located at two addresses:

• Kuznetsky Most, 9.
• Neglinnaya, 10.

The institution is open every day, from 12 to 6 o'clock. The average check is 1500 rubles.

In addition to Arabic cuisine, here you can order:

• Uzbek pilaf, Kazan kebab, tovuk sai.
• Georgian kebabs.
• Italian homemade pasta.

Some guests liked the place, they praise the atmosphere, food, hookahs, and waiters. Others speak negatively about the restaurant: they did not like the food, the prices seemed too high, the music was too loud.

Other Arabic restaurants in Moscow

In addition to the above, you can add a few more:

• "Sinbad", Lyusinovskaya, 62.
• Sherbet, Myasnitskaya, 17/1.
• Beirut, Mashkova, 22.
• "Hookah", Novoslobodskaya, 14/19, p. 8.

Here you can enjoy Arabic cuisine in an Oriental atmosphere.