Cocktails and ‘concept drinks’
Necking vodka out of plastic cups at a bus forestall is the so nineteen nineties. today’s youngMuscovites favor to sip glasses of wine or and hipster-made cocktails. one of the excellent location to look this new Moscow in all its glory is Public Bar, a sharply designed subterranean cocktail hang-out with low-key interiors and high–idea drinks. It’s tiny, so growing to become a way is continually feasible. in which case, retire to the perfectly decent café Iskra upstairs for food or drinks.
A night at the opera
Moscow has 4 opera homes and, whilst you shouldn’t miss the chance to peer something at the degree of the Bolshoi – if you could get a ticket – the others are also really worth sorting out. The mynon-public favorite is the Helikon, in which tickets are not a great deal extra costly than a cup of espresso. For a small charge, you get sharp stagings of an aggregate of conventional and lesser-regarded operas in the extraordinarily intimate environment. Many performances have English subtitles. The Helikon also tiers forty-minute performances in the lobby, for the duration of which the singers may pour you a coffee or a lager.
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