14 best Italian restaurants in Moscow

People who once visited Italy know how tasty the local cuisine is. But those who have never set foot on Italian soil no less love soundly cooked pasta or spaghetti with a glass of good wine.

In the capital there are many different places offering different gastronomic delights. Our experts selected 14 of the best Italian restaurants in Moscow worthy of the title of italiano vero.

Rating of the best Italian restaurants in Moscow

Nomination	a place	restaurant name	price
Rating of the best Italian restaurants in Moscow	1	Balzi rossi	2 500 - 4 000 ₽
	2	Semifreddo	2 500 - 4 000 ₽
	3	Cantinetta Antinori	2 500 - 4 000 ₽
	4	Andiamo	1 500 - 2500 ₽
	5	Donna Margaret	1 500 - 2500 ₽
	6	Jamie`s Italian	1 500 - 2500 ₽
	7	Florentini	700 - 1500 ₽
	8	Community	2 500 - 4 000 ₽
	9	Ceretto	1 500 - 2500 ₽
	10	Giovedi cafe	1 500 - 2500 ₽
	11	Accetiti	1 500 - 2500 ₽
	12	Buono	2 500 - 4 000 ₽
	13	Square bb	700 - 1500 ₽
	14	"IL Patio"	700 - 1500 ₽

Balzi rossi

Rating: 4.9

Leader becomes open in the historic high-rise restaurant. According to critics, it is here that they cook the most delicious fish in the city, and the rum baba is no different from the one that can be tasted in Genoa. The quality of food on top. This is due to the professionalism of the Italian chefs led by a talented chef, Emmanuel Mongillo. All products are purchased from trusted suppliers. Seafood, for example, is driven straight from the Seychelles.

The menu is diverse. We advise you to try dishes from all its sections. In addition to Italian cuisine, here represented European, Singaporean, Asian and Mediterranean. The price is fixed, ranging from 600 to 1500 p. A rich wine list offers to try the classic hits of Europe and the wines of New World.

The restaurant has an oyster bar. A projector and two screens are installed, which often display sports broadcasts. The room is closed by agreement under the banquet. The services of a children's animator are available. Not everyone may like color music and a loud bit.

Address: Moscow, Kudrinskaya Square, 1. Contact by phone: +7 (495) 144-74-14. Open daily from 12:00 to 00:00.

Semifreddo

Rating: 4.9

The second line gets the institution with an almost sixteen-year history. The award-winning chef Nino Graziano works here. Before coming to Russia, his Sicilian restaurant received two Michelin stars. Guests are offered classic Italian, Sicilian and author's cuisine. Nino selects products with special meticulousness, looking for pheasants, then special goat cheese. As a true professional, the chef knows that the authorship should be a little bit in order to preserve the essence of the original recipe.

Critics and visitors particularly note the soup of shrimp brought from Sicily and bronzino; flowery salad with veal jelly; Tagliata served as Japanese tataki with soybean-ginger sauce. Guests can refer not only to the usual menu, but also to two tasting ones: the traditional Sicilian (without wines) and the creative. The wine list is distinguished by the variety of drinks presented, and will become a guide to Italian wine houses.

The premises are made in an elegant and discreet style, which blows comfort.White-washed tablecloths and curtains contrast with black chairs, chandeliers, sconces. You can eat or just have a cup of coffee on the summer terrace. The cost of an average bill of about 6500 p.

Address: Moscow, Timur Frunze, 11, building 55. Call: +7 (495) 181-55-55. Open daily from 12:00 to 23:30.

Cantinetta Antinori

Rating: 4.8

The third position goes to a respectable restaurant, in which you can often encounter senior officials. Due to the abundance of expensive cars and security guards at the entrance, it becomes clear that the institution is a favorite place for visiting dignitaries. For someone like this will be a clear disadvantage. Despite this, we recommend the restaurant, as the presented dishes are notable for their special elegance. If you are a true gourmet, then you will not pass by Cantinetta Antinori.

In the kitchen there is a chef, Mauro Panebyanko, who is a pastry chef by profession. Tiramisu preparation is considered to be the best in Moscow. Mauro presents Tuscan classics to the guests, reflected in beef steak, roasted in truffle salt; calf cheeks, stewed in cherry sauce; beef tagliata with chianti sauce, baked in whole on an open fire, and subsequently chopped into fine pink petals. The wine list offers about two and a half thousand bottles. The average score is from 2 to 7 thousand rubles.

Address: Moscow, Money Lane, 20. For questions, please call: +7 (499) 241-33-25. Open daily from 12:00 to 00:00.

Andiamo

Rating: 4.8

The fourth is a modern institution, ideal for residents of the metropolis. In addition to Italian, Japanese cuisine is also presented. Virtuoso cooks combine relevant trends and the author's approach, thanks to which masterpieces are born. Particular emphasis is placed on pizza - there are more than twenty kinds of it. According to visitors, the pizza comes out really Italian: with a thin dough and moderately crispy. From the menu we also recommend to try risotto, homemade pasta, fish dishes and desserts. A large selection of wines will interest every guest.

The design of the rooms is laconic, made in restrained beige and brown tones. Subdued light and melodic music create a romantic and relaxing atmosphere for communication. During the day it is much lighter here, you can observe the life of the city through large stained glass windows. Make an average of about 2-5 thousand rubles.

Address: Moscow, Stroiteley, 4, building 2, and also on Prospekt Vernadskogo, 37/1. Call: +7 (495) 789-56-78, +7 (495) 930-81-81. Works daily, around the clock.

Donna Margaret

Rating: 4.7

The fifth place is occupied by a spacious and bright restaurant. Following the conceived concept, they did not focus attention on the interior. Externally, the institution resembles the cozy streets of Italy, where there is a lot of greenery, tangerine trees, sunlight and mouthwatering smells everywhere. The lack of unity and the difference of furniture, dishes - the main idea of ​​design. The main hall, similar to the market area, where the counter and pavement under their feet, can accommodate from 70 to 90 people, and the fireplace - from 80 to 90.

The main thing in the kitchen is Paolo Boccolini, the chef who cooks traditional Italian dishes according to recipes inherited from her grandmother. We especially recommend ossobuco with beef and polenta, beef scallopine with mashed potatoes and mushroom sauce, as well as a salad with sea bass. Be sure to order one of the offered pizzas and pie, for example, with pumpkin, apricots and dried apricots or chocolate-cherry. The average score is from 2 to 3 thousand rubles.

Address: Moscow, st. 1905, 2, building 1.Contact by phone: +7 (499) 682‑70-01, +7 (499) 682‑70-00. Open daily from 12:00 to 22:00.

Jamie`s Italian

Rating: 4.7

The sixth line goes to the restaurant, owned not only in England, but in the whole world by the chef - Jamie Oliver. The location of the place chosen is good - close to the Kremlin. Guests here are offered in a cozy atmosphere to taste the delicious dishes from the chef, Matteo Lai. The main dishes of the menu are local dishes from different regions of Italy, but have undergone changes from Jamie. Products are carefully selected and purchased mainly from farms, whether it be olive oil, eggs, vegetables, fish, sausage or meat. It is in this approach that the success of the network lies.

The decor in the restaurant is pleasant, no pathos. The institution is positioned as a family one, where it is always noisy and fun at home. Children are especially welcome here, for whom a special menu has been developed in the form of a filmstrip and a special entertainment room is open. The room can accommodate up to two hundred and five people. The average bill - from 1500 p.

Located on Okhotny Ryad, 2, TG "Fashion Season", 2nd floor. For all questions call: +7 (968) 544‑92-35, +7 (495) 540‑44-10, +7 (812) 640‑16-16, +7 (812) 903‑00-80. Open daily from 10:00 to 00:00.

Florentini

Rating: 4.7

The seventh position gets a network of Italian restaurants format steak house. Institutions are scattered throughout the city: Leninsky Prospekt, Old Basmannaya, Kaluzhskoe Highway, Michurinsky Prospect. The restaurant's chef is Artyom Dobrovolsky. Sure hands, along with the talent of this master, create new dishes that become masterpieces and amaze visitors with their delicious taste.

Here you can find Italian, European and author's cuisine. There is also a special menu: lean and vegetarian. We recommend to try the Florentine steak, Ligurian seafood soup, burrata and pizza. A rich wine list will not leave guests indifferent either.

The interior is decorated in an unusual way: lampposts, lamps, benches, windows with flowers, lots of lively greenery - all this brings the suburbs of Italy to the warm climate. The main hall is designed for 80 people. There is a wine cellar, where you can sit on soft sofas. Often the institution closes under the banquet. The place is great for organizing events and celebrations, including children. Make an average of about 2500 p.

Address: Moscow, Michurinsky Avenue, Olympic Village, 4, building 3, 1st floor. Call the numbers: +7 (495) 773-02-00, +7 (499) 649-71-99. Open daily from 12:00 to 00:00.

Community

Rating: 4.7

Eighth is the institution with the original interior. Guests can feel not only in the restaurant, but also in the huge library. Here are high racks reaching the ceiling, a multi-tiered chandelier made of crystal, a whole collection of panels and original posters, neon lights. Unique decor makes the place memorable and makes it stand out from the competition. Visitors in this setting can taste interesting dishes of vegetarian, oriental, pan-Asian, Mediterranean cuisine, as well as enjoy different wines and cocktails, or visit the cozy tea room. We recommend to order beef classic tartar, which is served on a focacle chip, complemented with parmesan and black truffle. Desserts celebrate chocolate mousse with greens, pistachios, pumpkin chips and sorbet. The talented chef Giacomo Lombardi heads the kitchen.

The restaurant often becomes a theater venue or a place where meetings, tastings, and other events are held, including banquets. In the Community, you can really read books, because they are real, not fake.The average bill ranges from 2500-5 thousand rubles.

Located at Kosmodamianskaya Embankment, 2. For reservation issues contact: +7 (495) 663-17-47. Open: from Monday to Thursday, from 12:00 to 0:00; Friday and Saturday, from 12:00 to 5:00; Sunday, from 12:00 to 0:00.

Ceretto

Rating: 4.6

On the ninth place of the rating is a network of restaurants of Italian cuisine, a project of the Ceretto family and a Moscow restaurant holding, Fresco Group. The Ceretto family lives in Piedmont, and for seventy years produces the best wines in the region, for example, the world-famous Barbaresco and Barollo. In Alba, Ceretto has a restaurant, Piazza Duomo, marked by three Michelin stars. Restaurants on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, Leninsky Highway and Leningradsky Avenue. Chip network is a healthy diet. Cooks have practice in Italy. The head of the kitchen is Vladimir Sidorov and Dennis Panzer.

Almost all the dishes on the menu are made without blanks, prepared for each client from scratch. No microwaves, frost, salt and refined sugar. Despite the fact that cooking takes more time, the food is home-style, tasty and healthy. We advise you to try one of several types of pizzas, smoked bacon petals and meat stew, crayfish salad, fetchcini with morels, Milanese risotto. Japanese cuisine is also presented. A selection of wines about the chef-sommelier, Timofeyenko Andrew, will amaze with a variety. From the point of view of the convenience of perception of information, the Ceretto wine list is recognized as the best, as it is accompanied by photo illustrations and a peer review. Make an average of about 2 thousand rubles.

Address: Moscow, Tsvetnoy Boulevard, 11, building 3. For reservation, call: +7 (495) 621 60 98; on delivery issues: +7 (964) 728 40 06. Open daily from 11:00 to 24:00; delivery is from 12:00 to 22:00.

Giovedi cafe

Rating: 4.6

The tenth line gets a high-level class restaurant from Levin Arkady. The dishes of the south of Italy are especially good here, for example, pizza, soups, meat and fish steaks, seafood, risotto, potterhouse, lamb saddle in tiles, goat meat marinated in white wine. The menu is a new format, averaged, but there are really things that are standing and in a new way that sound. Often, master classes for children are organized here, where they are taught to make margaritas.

The interior is soulful and simple in Italian. The room is two-story. There is a zone with a pizza oven, a bar. The walls are lined with brick. On the windowsills quite a lot of lively greens, which gives comfort. Several LCD screens, so you can often watch sports broadcasts, listen to music. The average bill will be 2500 p.

Located on Ozerkovskaya Embankment, 26, LCD "Aquamarine". Call by phone: +7 (495) 772‑97-37. Open daily from 11:30 to 23:00.

Accetiti

Rating: 4.5

The eleventh position goes to the institution that received in 2010 the title of the best restaurant according to the version of the VI Moscow Gastronomic Festival. On TripAdvisor, the score is quite high - 4.5. There is an Accenti for more than fifteen years, and during this time managed to gain a reputation as an excellent place where you can not only eat good food, but also relax in peace. In the kitchen is the main - Igor Shurupov. Author's, Italian, Mediterranean and Russian dishes are presented. The food here is varied, to call it purely Italian is incorrect. Of course, you can order carpaccio, buratu, buffalo mozzarella. If you want a new taste, it is better to stop the choice on ravioli with crabs made from wonton (rice dough).

Accommodates hundreds of people. Tables, if necessary, move or stand separately, allowing groups of eight to sit down. There are three halls, one of which, with a capacity of twenty persons, has an audio system and a dance floor. Marble busts, paintings, greenery, soft sofas and an abundance of light make the interior comfortable and inviting to peaceful appearances. There is a spacious summer veranda. Make an average score from 2500 to 3 thousand rubles.

Located in Kropotkinsky lane, 7. For consultation, please call: +7 (499) 246-15-15, +7 (499) 246-71-82, +7 (499) 245-74-53. Works: on weekdays, from 12:00 to the last client; at the weekend, from 13:00.

Buono

Rating: 4.5

The restaurant becomes the twelfth, located on the twenty-ninth and thirtieth floors of the Hotel Ukraina. The beautiful view from the panoramic windows fascinates visitors no less than delicious food. Almost all seats go along the windows so that the maximum number of guests have the opportunity to enjoy the beauty of the capital’s center. The interior corresponds to the premium class, so the notes of the Italian Empire style are clearly traced. The menu is a classic, but there are flambé dishes.

The head of the kitchen is Christian Lorenzini, who used to be the chef at Mario, preparing sumptuous dishes for famous people like Sting, Mick Jagger, Eros Ramazotti, Naomi Campbell. And in 2011 they decided to put Christian at the head of Buono. For flambe meets the talented Pistacchio Francesco.

The institution hosts family events, banquets, gastronomic evenings, live music is played. There is an oyster bar, seasonal, children's and lenten menus. The average bill will be in the region of 3500 p.

Located on Kutuzov Avenue, 2/1, building 1, 29th floor. Call by phone: +7 (495) 229-83-08, +7 (495) 229-83-09. Open daily from 12:00 to 1:00.

Square bb

Rating: 4.5

On the thirteenth place is a family institution with excellent quality dishes. In the kitchen runs Roberto Bruno. The menu he has has a clear Italian slant: ravioli with mozzarella and pasta made from dough cooked directly in the restaurant; pizza on the finest dough; caprese; bruschetta with prosciutto or salmon; panakota For those who are watching their weight, a special menu offering proper nutrition is suitable. From drinks there are teas, coffee, milkshakes, juices, soft drinks, smoothies. The kitchen is open, so every guest can watch the process.

The restaurant constantly organizes children's parties, as well as master classes. In a cozy atmosphere and bright design, and even with such gastronomic masterpieces from the brand chef any holiday turns out to be unforgettable. At the master classes, children learn to prepare cocktails, cookies, pizza and real Italian pasta. Children can come from three to ten years. The time is forty minutes. Confectioners when ordering a cake will make it with their own hands, bringing to life any fantasy. The average bill - 1 thousand.

Located on the 24th kilometer of the Moscow Ring Road, 1. For questions contact: +7 (985) 422-82-72. Open: from Monday to Thursday, from 10:00 to 23:00; Friday and Saturday, from 10:00 to 0:00; Sunday, from 10:00 to 23:00.

"IL Patio"

Rating: 4.5

The rating is closed by a network of Italian restaurants, which was known to Muscovites under the name Patio Pizza. Now the concept has changed, and with it the name. You can visit places on the First Tverskaya-Yamskaya, Taganskaya, Komsomolsky and Andropov Avenue, in Balashikha. Here you can eat, have a romantic date or have a good lunch. We recommend to try tiramisu, pizza, spaghetti bambini, meatballs with brioche bun, chicken skewers, nuggets, salads with a signature chef.

Presented Mediterranean cuisine, characterized by the use in the preparation of extremely fresh, environmentally friendly ingredients and compliance with the recipe.The leadership in the kitchen was headed by renowned chef Renzo de Sario. Favorite dish you can cook yourself at home, knowing here the recipe. A variety of drinks - another advantage of the institution. It serves interesting hot cocktails, as well as wines, aperitifs, juices, lemonades. We advise you to go to IL Patio. Make an average of about 1 thousand. P.

Located on the First Tverskaya-Yamskoy, 2, Building 1. Call by phone: +7 (965) 319-24-20, +7 (495) 781-07-81. Works: on weekdays, from 8:00 to 0:00; Weekends, from 11:00 to 0:00.

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