Moskva


What was once a Commie-style milk bar dishing up Russian fare to budding Soviets, is now one of the trendiest cafe-restaurants in Tallinn. That's progress for you! Instead of taking your tray to the canteen to be dished up cabbage soup by a scary middle-aged matron, pretty young things flit around the tables to take your orders. On the ground floor there's a relaxed cafe vibe; upstairs you'll find a crisp, minamalist-decorated restaurant serving a range of cuisines with a Mediterranean bias. Moskva turns into a club at night.

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location:
City Centre

address:
Vabaduse Valjak 10

telephone:
+372 6404694

fax:
+372 6404682

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Moskva

"1/5 is being generous. A really nice looking bar (I loved the Carlsberg bottle chandeliers), and obviously somewhere for the young and trendy, but definitely not a place for the hungry. What food I was able to sample wasn't to bad, (although if you get chicken make sure its been cooked), but so so! so! let down on the simplest of requirements - service that knows what the hell is going on! A complete failure from start to finish (about 1h45m). I cannot stress how much you should avoid this place. The waitress didn’t have a clue as to the menu or which meals had additions such as potatoes/rice etc. - and she seemed to be a manager! How on a Saturday afternoon can a restaurant run out of bruschetta (toasted bread slices with oil & tomatoes) only to then come down with bowls of bread slices as pre- starter nibbles? Shocking! THEN she turned up with "Suprise! We actually do have bruschetta" she even had four of them! We'd only ordered 3. People got getting mains before staters, some didn’t even get either and when after an hour of waiting after ordering we were told that soup (!) was "coming soon" we were not too happy. We would have asked for the bill but it had already come “to save time”. And this is the short rant version. "

Smiler
United Kingdom
May.30.2006
Overall rating
1/5

"Amazing place, they really went out of their way to make us feel welcome. The food was great and the service even better. If you believe this, you will believe anything. Ok food, terrible service. Orders never arrived and we are still waiting for some meat balls. In good Moskva fashion (They be there soon!!!!!!!) Matt, I hear your soup has arrived!!!!!"

Smoking Jo
United Kingdom
May.30.2006
Overall rating
1/5

"I have to say that i was not impressed in the least with Moskva. A few friends and I stopped there for a late lunch on a Saturday and it took the cerebrally challenged waitress 35 minutes to tell us that we could not have our starter as they had run out. Fine, we chose another. But when she brought them out, it turned out the originals were there after all. Some people's mains came out before the starters, others received no starters and others no mains. Some had their cutlery taken away and had to ask more than once for a fresh set. After about an hour, she brought the bill out, despite the fact that some were still waiting for the starter/main. No chance of a coffee or dessert then? Her excuse? 'We are busy' (we were the only people eating at the time). I told her it was the worst restaurant i'd ever been to in my life. I would avoid like the plague and would not recommend it in the least. Stay away. The waitresses had nice dresses though."

Sal
United Kingdom
May.30.2006
Overall rating
1/5

"Pretty young things do indeed flit from table to table, and our waitress Sandra had a fantastic pair of legs, she was, however, the most inept waitress I have ever come across. She was obviously not familiar with the menu, then it took her about 40 minutes to inform us that the Bruschetta some of us ordered as a starter was not available, only to turn up half an hour later with the aforemenetioned Bruschetta. She then brought a few of the mains before people had even swallowed the first bite of the starter, and some other hadn't even got their starters so we had a table full of dishes. This didn't do one of our party any good, as he didn't actually get anything that he had ordered. She had to be asked three or four times for cutlery, and was slow bringing drinks. Then, to cap it all off, whilst those of us who had got food were still halfway through, she plonked the bill on the table. To be fair the food that did come was OK, and there was not an attempt to charge us for stuff we'd ordered but hadn't come. When confronted with all these comments Sandra claimed the kitchen was busy, yet the restaurant upstairs was virtually empty, and the Cafe downstairs was busy but hardly full. All in all I would say that this place should be avoided."

Enrique Nespereira
United Kingdom
May.30.2006
Overall rating
1/5