It is difficult for sweet tooth to imagine their life without desserts. Cakes, donuts, sweet buns, sweets, mousses, ice cream - all this is an integral part of the diet of lovers of sweets. About the 15 most popular places in Moscow serving gourmet sweets - in our material
Roulette
This bakery-cafe is always fresh and delicious sandwiches, as well as cookies, mousses, cakes, pastries. Roulette customers know that they can get a discount (40%) on pastries made during the day by visiting the bakery after 21:00.
The secret of the taste of baking is in the skill of the chefs. So, the chef-baker of Roulette used to work in one of the Rublyovka restaurants.
Location: st. Bolshaya Serpukhovskaya, 31/10
Working hours: from 08:00 to 22:00
Photo: Roulette
Photo: Roulette
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Leonidas
The cafe with a romantic name is known for its rich assortment of desserts. Here you can try about 150 chocolate flavors, including orange, almond, cranberry, bergamot and pecan. If you want to taste sweets with salt brought from the Atlantic coast, hazelnuts, vanilla, Cointreau liqueur, rum or coffee - you are in Leonidas. Also on the menu are candied fruits, marmalade, nuts in chocolate icing, marshmallow. Another "feature" of the institution is reasonable prices.
Location: Stoleshnikov lane, 8
Working hours: Mon-Thu - from 10:00 to 22:00; Fri-Sun - from 10:00 to 23:00
Photo: Leonidas
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"Francois"
This cafe offers excellent French desserts. Enjoying a cup of coffee with crispy bread with various toppings (such as olives, nuts, figs or cheese), chocolate hazelnut cookies, vanilla walnut éclairs or madeleine pastries can be quite inexpensive. François also sells takeaway desserts.
Location: st. 2nd Brestskaya, 39, building 2
Working hours: Mon-Fri - 7:30-23:00; Sat-Sun - 8:30-22:00
Photo: "Francois"
red mango
A cafe with a laconic cozy interior and a rich list of desserts is located on the 3rd floor of the Fashion Season shopping center. There are five types on the Red Mango menu natural yogurt(classical, shortbread, strawberry, vanilla, Belgian chocolate, mango), fresh waffles with various toppings and coffee.
Visitors to the cafe know that it is not only tasty and satisfying, but also inexpensive. And an impressive portion of waffles is enough for two.
Location: Okhotny Ryad, 2
Working hours: from 10:00 to 22:00
Photo: red mango
Photo: red mango
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waffle house
One of the most popular places in Moscow to enjoy Belgian waffles with whipped cream and maple syrup is located in the Arcadia shopping center. It is here on the 3rd floor that the Waffle House is located. Also on the menu are fruits, nuts, coffee, tea.
Location: Bolshoi Ovchinnikovsky Lane, 16
Working hours: from 10:00 to 22:00.
Photo: wafflestory.ru 6 "Cream"
Gelateria Café Plombir is the creation of Sergio Dondoli, who is called the master of natural gelato. His desserts conquered Andrea Bocelli, Luciano Spalletti, Vladimir Pozner and Ivan Urgant.
The range of ice cream is designed for products available in Russia: berries, nuts, cream, chocolate, etc. You can order dessert with you: it can be stored in special containers for up to 4 hours. There is also coffee and tea on the menu.
Location: st. Tverskaya, 17; Lubyansky pr-kt, 15, building 2
Working hours: Mon-Fri - from 8:00 to 23:00, Sat-Sun - from 10:00 to 23:00
Photo: "Cream"
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handmade cake
sweet pastries own cooking can be tasted in a cafe located near the Chistye Prudy metro station. The restaurant's menu includes a wide selection of macaroons, cupcakes, cakes with various fillings, as well as branded Hand Made Cakes. You can also have coffee or tea in the café. Dessert takeaway service available.
Location: Chistoprudny Boulevard, 12, bldg. 4
Working hours: 09:00 to 23:00
Photo: handmade cake
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La Princesse Choco
This cafe-shop, located near the Sokol metro station, is called a chocolate studio. The author's project of chocolatier Alla Komisarova appeared in 2011. The main task of the institution was the production of original chocolate gifts according to European recipes.
Today in the collection of the confectionery - sweets by original recipes Pierre Herme, Ricardo Magny, Patrick Roger, Bruno Pastorelli. Visitors can also purchase elite chocolate products, hand-made according to the recipe of the founder of La Princesse Choco: truffle with passion fruit in white chocolate glaze, truffle with chili pepper, etc.
Location: st. Baltic, 5
Working hours: 10:00 to 20:30
Photo: La Princesse Choco
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Magnolia Bakery
In the confectionery with a large selection of pastries, cakes, cupcakes, cookies, puddings and other desserts, not only the sweets themselves are original, but also the packaging. Packed in beautiful boxes, products can be bought as an edible gift. In addition to a rich assortment, Magnolia Bakery attracts with affordable prices. The best way- buy sweets in a set.
0+An exotic dessert for Russia - Hong Kong waffles - you can try at WAFBUSTERS ("Wafbusters"). This delicacy came to us from China, but it is interesting for its unusual shape and method of preparation. The dough is fried, the filling is hidden in balls, and the wafers are decorated on top with fruits, berries, ice cream or fresh whipped cream. Milkshakes, lemonades, tea and coffee are offered as an accompaniment to the delicacy.
st. Skhodnenskaya, 56, SEC "Kaleidoscope", Prospekt Vernadskogo, 6, shopping center "Capitol on Prospekt Vernadskogo"Restaurant
So what's worth a try? Definitely, order one of the types of ice cream served here. For the taste of the sweet tooth, ice cream is presented with a baked apple and cinnamon, with carrot-ginger sauce, with cinnamon, cookies and cheese glaze, with maple syrup and blueberries. Conversation also has a dessert on a stick - Popcicle, which is a frozen cheesecake. Also in the cafe you should try the Frozen Pink cake, which is made from frozen raspberries mashed with a little sugar.
B. Nikitskaya, 23/14/9Club "Tea Height" 18+
There are more than 40 varieties of creamy tea ice cream and sorbet - ice cream with blueberries and blue cheese, with puer and pine cones, Truffle Puer tea and Truffle Plombir ice cream, Asti Cinzano sorbet with white tea, tea jam " Feijoa, tarragon and paradise apples”, rowan ice cream. Price original desserts- from 200 rubles.
st. Pokrovka, 27, building 1Nano ice cream Dippin' Dots
Nano-ice cream is beads of ice cream or fruit juice prepared by cryogenic freezing at temperatures below -70°C. The Dippin "Dots" menu features blackberry, lemon and lime flavored ice cream, strawberry cheesecake, orange, chocolate chip cookies, vanilla, cotton candy and cake. The cafe is open for online delivery. You can also buy ice cream at branded kiosks located throughout the city.
st. Kirovogradskaya, 13A (SEC "Columbus")
Teatralny pr-d, 5/1 (Central Children's World on Lubyanka)
Khodynsky Blvd., 4 (SEC "Aviapark")
It seems like anything can be made from chocolate here. Here are fifty dishes where this sweetness is the main ingredient: a variety of fondues, Belgian waffles, crepes, fondants, chocolate pizza, tea brewed with white chocolate and various types of desserts on the same basis. Also in Max Brenner ("Max Brenner") there is an unusual delicacy - liquid chocolate, which is served in syringes.
Tsvetnoy Boulevard, 2, building 1 (BC "Legend of Tsvetnoy")
Restaurant "Tanuki" on Bolshaya Akademicheskaya
The Tanuki restaurant chain serves a unique moji dessert. This is the best ice cream different varieties wrapped in thin rice dough. Tastes are very diverse, from classic pistachio and blueberry to extravagant lychee and sakura. There is also kuro-yoru, unusual variation famous cake "Napoleon-san" (with raspberries, pineapple, strawberries, light cream and raspberry sauce), air roll "Roku san" and much more interesting and tasty.
st. Bolshaya Akademicheskaya, 65
La Princesse Choco ("La Princesse Choco") is famous for its chocolate self made for every taste - pink chocolate, passion fruit puree, chocolate with fruit pieces, sweets with basil and lime and many other enchanting combinations of flavors in delicious sweets.
st. Baltiyskaya, 5
Moscow region, Odintsovo district, Barvikha village, 85/1 (Dream House shopping center)
An ideal place for fans of outlandish sweets. Here you will find dragees, marmalade and marshmallows brought from different parts of the world. And also sweet sticks with icing, Japanese delicacy Daifuku, mochi cookies, figured sugar and Wonka sweets.
st. Maroseyka, d. 6-8, building 1, entrance 1, office 26
If you like austere Nordic cuisine, be sure to visit this place. From desserts here you will find tree bark and morel, a white beet snowball with berry marshmallow, last year's apple, ugly chocolate pie and even stones. And if you thought that we were criticizing local dishes, we are in a hurry to dissuade you - all these charming names are exclusively author's.
st. Pyatnitskaya, 3
The dessert menu at this place is very colorful. But we advise you to try the Z-Lego treat - this is a mousse from Chinese plum, raspberry, lychee, mango and passion fruit. And as you already understood by the name, the shape of this dessert resembles a favorite children's designer. So the tasting will be both tasty and fun. Also noteworthy are the roll "ammitsu" with tangerine jelly, wagashi "mochi" with curd mousse and persimmon and sea buckthorn sorbet.
Smolenskaya sq., 3
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On the one side, oriental sweets today you can find it on every corner, but this patisserie is a rare place that sells Lebanese desserts prepared according to the original old recipes. Their names may not say anything to those who are not at all familiar with such cuisine (barazek, burma, graibe, mamul), but believe me, those with a sweet tooth will definitely like these delicacies made from sweet threads with nuts, soaked in syrup and oriental love.
In the summer, Afisha.ru will restart the Afisha Children direction and an application will appear that will become an ideal guide around the city for children and parents. While the project is being prepared for launch, the Afisha Children editors have prepared a guide to five Moscow restaurants with unusual desserts for the Food section.
Zodiac
black japanese sweets and Lego dessert
Z-Lego (Chinese plum, raspberry and lychee, mango and passion fruit mousse), 380 rub.
The chef of the restaurant, gaining experience in Asia, brought a wagashi-mochi recipe from Tokyo (traditional Japanese sweets based on rice. - Note. ed.). But before introducing the dessert to the Zodiac menu, he changed the recipe a bit. You can find out what it tastes like by ordering light wagashi with strawberries or black wagashi with caramel and blueberries at the restaurant.
Especially for Lego fans, they have come up with and serve dessert Z-Lego (mousse of Chinese plum, raspberry and lychee, mango and passion fruit) in the form of bright details of the famous designer. Adult guests should also pay attention to the plum tart with chili ice cream, and children - to the chocolate mousse with the image of Mickey Mouse.
What to order: strawberry Ryu Gin, 560 rubles, Z-Lego, 380 rubles, wagashi-mochi with strawberries (2 pcs.), 460 rubles, black wagashi-mochi with caramel and blueberries (2 pcs.), 490 rubles.
MOS
Nordic chamomile and sorrel desserts
Chamomile mousse (whipped cream, chamomile tea, biscuit, sorrel), 350 rub.
The menu of the Scandinavian cuisine restaurant includes snacks (Danish donut with cheese, smoked whitefish caviar), salmon and chicken smorrebreds, baked Jerusalem artichoke with nut butter - this is one of the main dishes. The Desserts section also has a lot of interesting things, for example, chamomile mousse. Its base - "mountains" - is made from chamomile tea, whipped cream and lemon juice. A biscuit and sorrel granite are placed nearby - these are, respectively, “moss” and “greens”. The result is a sweet and sour refreshing dessert.
In addition to mousse, you should try kama, a version of a dessert that used to be served in Estonian sanatoriums and children's camps. It is prepared and served as follows: powdered kama is added to yogurt (a mixture of barley, oats and legumes ground into powder), Cherry jam and spices. Some toasted almonds and meringue are on top, and small pieces of gingerbread are hidden inside.
What to order: author's version of the traditional Estonian dessert kama, 350 rubles, Apple pie with anise ice cream and spicy caramel, 350 rubles, carrot cake with salt creamy mousse, sea buckthorn sorbet and carrot chips, 350 rub., chamomile mousse, 350 rub.
Cafe Pushkin
Cakes according to old recipes
Creme brulee with strawberries, 960 rubles
Many desserts from the confectionery at the Pushkin cafe have their own and, at the same time, a very long history. "Creme brulee with strawberries", according to legend, was first prepared by Napoleon's court chef after the conquest of Egypt by the French army. Creme brulee is served in the form of a pyramid with a dome of burnt sugar, on which a glass of strong liquor is poured, and then set on fire and served.
The dessert "Vesuvius on Mont Blanc" is made from vanilla ice cream, which is shaped like a mountain. Inside - a filling of fresh strawberries and jam from it. All this is covered Italian meringue and baked at a very high temperature for a few seconds until crispy. When the "Volcano" is already on the plate, it is poured over with strawberry syrup - flowing "lava". And also set on fire when served.
What to order:“Creme brulee with strawberries”, 960 rubles, “Prunes, creamed with berries and chocolate”, 760 rubles, “Vesuvius on Mont Blanc”, 980 rubles, “Zucker ford with condensed milk”, 570 rubles, “ Count's ruins "a la patissier with oranges", 495 rubles.
Molon Lave
Bougatsa and other classic Greek desserts
Bugatsa (pie with semolina cream, powdered sugar and cocoa), 380 r.
Greek cuisine restaurant Molon Lave. This is a weighty argument in favor of the quality and authenticity of the institution's dishes. The menu of chef Stamatis Tsilias contains all the national classics such as tzatziki, moussaka, Greek cheeses and seafood. In February, a bakery of the same name opened at the restaurant, which sells not only bread, but also Greek desserts with funny names (for example, trigona-panoramatos is a tube of filo dough with cream and almond sprinkling. - Note. ed.).
You should not be afraid of complicated words - the sellers will be happy to explain everything; like what layered cake with semolina cream, sprinkled with powdered sugar and cocoa, it will literally crumble under the knife, but it is not very sweet. And also, you should definitely start your acquaintance with the desserts of the country with a trio of Greek sweets: portocalopita, amygdaloto, galaktoboureko. The first is Greek orange pie, the second is macaroons, and the last is semolina pudding.
