5 affordable food stores in Moscow

How to find affordable, convenient, and delicious traditional Slavic food when you're in Moscow? Follow this guide to get it quickly!

Food Court StrEAT

StrEAT food street offers more than 30 street snacks from around the world (mainly startups or small chains). Recommended items include Tajikistan flat pies (19 yuan per piece) and Crimean oysters.

Uhvat - Russian Slow Food

Uhvat is a wood-fired oven used in many Russian homes. By the end of the 19th century, Uhvat made traditional Slavic cuisine popular, including some slow-cooked dishes such as pumpkin kashas porridge with honey and linden seasoning.
Here you can find affordable and stylish lunches. Popular dishes include homemade pickled porcini mushrooms, followed by veal and lardo borscht, as well as half a dozen small meat pies.

Severyane

The main dishes here include boiled eggs and pike caviar, Russian smoked beef, and crab cream pies from the Kamchatka Peninsula.

Lepim I Varim

This is the best fast food in Russia: featuring venison dumplings, wild boar dumplings, Russian wontons, and more.

Ottepel'

This is a typical Russian canteen, offering classic dishes such as sandwiches, beetroot stew with duck, or fried potato pancakes with mushrooms and pickled onions.