Moscow Trip

Other musts, of course, are the Kremlin and Red Square. There you can find St. Basil Cathedral and Mausoleum (which contains Lenin's body). You can also see the changing of the guard behind Red Square at the WWII memorial.

At the Kremlin, visit one of the five cathedrals inside. Oruzheinaya Palata is the armory inside the Kremlin and is also highly recomended. To get inside you need to get off at the "Biblioteka im Lenina" subway stop and purchase a ticket.

The restaurant scene in Moscow has improved over recent years, and you can find many very good and inexpensive restaurants in the city. My favorite restaurant with Russian flavor is Elki Palki (see my review). They have several of them in downtown. The new Russian fast-food chain is Russki Express--it has all different kinds of pirogi (dough stuffed with meat, potato, cabbage, etc).

Visit a nightclub. Bunker on Tverskaya Street has food, live music, and a disco. It has a very nice atmosphere. If you take the subway, get of anywhere in downtown near Tverskaya or Teatralnaya and walk. Bunker is close to all major attractions.

Quick Tips:

Kosmos has several restaurants with good food. A buffet breakfast is included and is wonderfull. They have a wide variety of food, from meats to cold cuts, salads, and cakes. The hotel is located by the subway station, a mere three stops from downtown. The rooms are nice and clean, and the bathroom has a second phone. We were on the fourteenth floor and had a great view of VDNH.

After that, give it to one of the cooks to grill it up for you. My advice is not to mix too many different kinds of meat: it does not taste very good. My frend had only seafood and it was tasty.

They have a room that looks like a restaurant where you can sit down and have food. The food was simple but good, about $10 - 15 per person with drinks. There is a live band playing. There is also another room for dancing. It has a big screen showing some clips. Very nice and unpretensious atmosphere. The wait staff is very friendly.

We went with a bunch of frends and had a great time.

The theater is beuatiful with paintings on the walls and a huge chandelier. We saw a ballet called Don Quixote. My husband and I are not big ballet fans, but we both loved it. They had a great show and costumes. They even had Don Quixote riding a real white horse. This is by far the best ballet I've seen, even at the Met.