CITY Issue 51

WHERE TO STAY RITZ-CARLTON MOSCOW Tverskaya Street 3; (7-495) 225-8888, www.ritzcarltonmoscow.ru A new 334-room, $350-million property right in Moscow’s center, within easy walking distance of Red Square, The Bolshoi ballet, and top local shopping. Its rooftop 02 Lounge is already luring the city’s—and visiting—PYTs with its gold-flecked sushi and signature fruity cocktails. HOTEL BALTSCHUG KEMPINSKI Ul. Balchug 1; (7-495) 230-5500 Located near the Kremlin, this grand five-star has had a major facelift and now includes traditional suites designed by David Linley as well as new contemporary rooms that are easily the sleekest in town. WHERE TO EAT TURANDOT 26-5 Tverskoy Boulevard, (7-495) 739-0011 Although far from wallet-friendly, this 65,000-square-foot ultra-ornate restaurant serves high-end Asian fare in the city’s most splendid dining room. For more local fare, opt for Cafe Pushkin just next door. NEDALNI VOSTOK Tverskoi bulvar str. 15, (7-495) 200-0154 Roughly translating into “Not Far East,” this modern pan-Asian eatery includes interiors by hip Tokyo-based design group Super Potato and is part of local restaurant king Arkady Novikov’s ever-expanding empire. WHERE TO SHOP (AND SOMETIMES DRINK) ELISEEV’S FOOD HALL 14 Tverskaya This former Soviet-era indoor market is housed in an achingly beautiful 18th-century mansion a short stroll from the Ritz. Today, it is Moscow’s version of Dean & Deluca—only with far more elegant interiors. The tiny traditional Russian chocolates are must-splurges. GUM 3 Red Square, (7-495) 921-5463 Located inside a pristinely renovated 19th-century shopping arcade, Moscow’s top department store features a clutch of the world’s highestwattage brands tucked inside beautifully-arched individual boutiques. TSUM Petrovska Street, (7-495) 292-1157 Moscow’s oldest department store and GUM’s local competition, this is where you go for everything from Zegna suits to floor-length furs to the latest luxury late-model sedan. DENIS SIMACHEV 12, Bldg. 2, Stoleshnikov Perevlok, (7-495) 629-5702 Avant-garde boutique by day, glam-packed bar-restaurant by night, this is Moscow’s all-hours answer to your every retail and revelry need. TRETYAKOVSKI PROYEZD A street of top global designer boutiques five minutes from Red Square includes a new Ralph Lauren outpost—one of his biggest on the planet. serve meaty portions of this Central Asian classic at about $12 a head. Wear yourself out in the market in the morning, returning to the city to recover with a spin around its historic Metro all afternoon. Although built only in the 1930s, the system is the world’s busiest and includes what are easily the planet’s most ornate stations—grandly decorated in stained glass, towering columns, and crystal chandeliers, particularly at the Mayakovskaya station, with its 33 mosaic cartoons by famed Russian artist Alexander Deineka. Back at Simachev, it seemed unlikely that any of the regulars here were also regular Metro riders. Despite import duties of over 50 percent, this crowd clearly favored sedans over subways. I was told to return to the space the next day, when its downstairs lounge—with a 300-year-old bar counter—becomes a mid-shopping lunchery and the upstairs gallery stocks $1,000 T-shirts, jeans, and hoodies festooned with post-Soviet Cyrillic pop. When I did return, Simachev’s shop—reportedly funded by expat Oligarch Roman Abramovich—was empty, its forlorn sales staff leafing through pan-European issues of Vogue. “Russians don’t really buy Russian,” I was later told, as evident by the massive and packed Marc Jacobs shops a few doors away. Sadly, at prices like these, I wasn’t shopping either. CITY 55 http://www.ritzcarltonmoscow.ru

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Contents Letter from CITY Our Friends Action Wanted City Moment The City Life Fast Food Fit Field Trip The Suite Life Paint the Town Red Fresh Tracks After the Sunset One City, Many Destinations The Winning Photographer The Entries By the Numbers The Finalists Expert Opinion Amateur Hour Meet the Finalists Nowhere Man Dune Raiders Just Go Where To Buy It Socials Icon

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