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style place is part shop, part cafe with a long common table and no permanent menu, since
they cook what they get and how they fancy at the time.
Nizhny Susalny per is accessed via a long underground passage connected to Kurskaya
metro (ring line) and Kursky vokzal (follow ul Kazakova signs). Once you get out, look out
for the gates leading into Arma about 100m further on you right.
GEORGIAN
MADAM GALIFE
noon-5am;
;
Prospekt Mira)
A brainchild of famous Georgian film director Rezo Gabriadze, this is much more than just
another Caucasian restaurant. It faces the charming Aptekarsky Ogorod gardens for starters,
and the interior design - mixing naive art with antiques brought from Georgia - is superb.
Food is a mixture of Georgian and European. To avoid disapointment, stick to the former.
Also adding to the awesome atmosphere is the live music - mostly piano and some other
jazzy ensembles - that plays every night.
DRINKING & NIGHTLIFE
Meshchansky
CAFE
SISTERS CAFE
495-623 0932;
www.facebook.com/sistacafe
; ul Pokrovka 6;
noon-11pm;
; Kitay-Gorod)
This cosy and quiet cafe-cum-bar has a distinct feminine touch about it - as if Chekhov's
sisters have finally made their way to Moscow and started a new life here. Cheapish
smoothies, lemonades and teas are on offer, but the wine and cocktail lists are equally im-
pressive. If you're hungry, they serve lovingly prepared Italian standards.
Retro furniture creates a cosy, homely feeling, but a striking mural with a girl facing a
blue abyss suggests that this place is about dreams and new horizons.
TEAROOM
CHAYNAYA VYSOTA
Tearoom? Gelateria? This place looks more like an academic library of tea and ice cream, an
impression enhanced by the fact that it shares premises with a bookstore. The tea menu is an
endless list of pu'ers and oolongs, while ice-cream flavours represent everything that grows
