Top of everything: the most delicious bread in Moscow restaurants

In the last few years, bread has attracted attention in restaurants as much as main courses and desserts. Exclusive recipes, friendly bakeries, amazing flavored butter (from seaweed and scallops to vitamin dessert and gooseberry puree) – and now you’re “hungry” and it’s impossible to stop.

The Fashion Vibes columnist Anya Baturina has loved bread since childhood and has even opened (and closed) her own bakery. She has made a list of places with the tastiest breads that you should definitely return to, or at least order home from.

Anya Baturina, columnist for The Fashion Vibes, author of the Gastrology Telegram channel

Okhotka

Village bread with scallops and butter (110 rubles)

Bread in Okhotka is treated with undisguised precision, although the service and composition are rather brutal. It is prepared from wheat flour, oatmeal, dark beer, yoghurt and yeast, and when served, it is cut into pieces and dried, making it easier to eat by hand. They say that in this way you can teleport to childhood with tastier and warmer bread – now it does not hurt.

Meanwhile, they are preparing a special butter for bread. It is not in vain that zero waste occupies an important place in Okhotka philosophy. Bacon from the scallop skirt (where the mollusk sticks to the shell) is mixed into the oil. Usually this skirt goes straight to the trash, but not here. Project chief Andrey Balakhnov sorts, rinses, dries, dries (like bacon), grinds and adds to softened butter. So you can be calm that the combs are working to the end.

Address: st. Sretenka, 1 to 34/1

Bjorn

Crispy crust bread (0 rubles)

Bjorn’s famous crusty cracked gray bread is made from a mixture of wheat and wheat flour, honey and sea salt. Once, the starter for him was brought to Moscow by the first chef of the restaurant, Dane Kasper Gaard. The cooks have been very careful for many years, they are constantly supporting. (I had to google it: It turns out that sourdough is not to be looked at any less than a girl on a first date).

It is also not easy to serve with bread that is whipped and caramelized with walnut-caramel notes. This is due to the peculiarities of its preparation – sugars caramelize without heating and change color.

Address: st. Pyatnitskaya, 3

La Poste

Campagne (450 rubles) / Baguette (180 rubles) / Mail apple (450 rubles)

It would be strange not to mention Oksana Kuznetsova’s La Poste boutique bakery: when you find yourself in it, it is easy to get confused by the abundance of bread varieties. Baked baguette is canonical with a sweet creamy crumb and crispy crust that rings on the outside, Campagne bread is a classic and versatile rustic gray with a thin crust and sour cream flavor (it goes with everything, even Nutella—checked by the editors).

An interesting novelty of Khlebnaya Pochta is Postovy Apple, based on rye sourdough with applesauce, fennel and coriander, with spices and apple flavor. It’s hard to believe, but this is the perfect starter for cheese and meat sandwiches.

Addresses: Leningradsky prospect, 48// st. Myasnitskaya, 13с3

Lilac pastry

Artisan buckwheat (350 rubles) / Onions (280 rubles)

There’s more to LILA Pastry than desserts. Despite the name, it has a large main menu and breakfasts (by the way, they’ve been updated recently, Benedict Crab and Dutch Baby are just a ball). Watch out for the bread served here: It comes straight from the Valiko bakery.

Try the traditional buckwheat made with sourdough and buckwheat flour, it is also cooked with buckwheat honey and walnuts, this gives it a super rich flavor. Another tip of the head is onion bread with an airy crumb. The whole secret is in its preparation with the addition of potatoes.

Address: st. Sretenka, 22/1с1

Remy Kitchen Oven

Japanese milk bread (0 rubles)

For bread in the restaurants of Alexander Oganezov – Remy Kitchen Bakery, Pino restaurant bar, Gentle cafe, Muse restaurant, Amy restaurant – the incredible chef answers baker Anna Malikova. At Remy Kitchen Bakery, guests are served Japanese milk bread in the morning and gray sourdough bread in the afternoon (it’s worth visiting twice to see which one you like best).

But in the window of the restaurant you can find different options – from natural sourdough bread (white, gray, white rye, cereal, with olives and sun-dried tomatoes, Borodino, etc. with tomatoes and tongue and apricots and lemon only on top).

Address: st. Malaya Bronnaya, 2// st. Lesnaya, 20с1// Presnenskaya emb., 8с1

Mouflon

Lavash (0 rubles)

In the very center of Moscow, the modern Armenian restaurant Mouflon has just been opened by hereditary restaurant owner Stepan Tsarukyan (when you come to Armenia, ask anyone about their business – it’s been heard for 20 years). In it you can get an idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthe gastronomic tastes of modern inhabitants of Yerevan.

As a compliment, they offer hot delicious pita, which is definitely prepared here, on order. The main secret is special premium flour and the right water temperature to make the perfect dough.

Address: Starovagankovsky lane, 19 building 7

Do not touch

Homemade bread, butter (150 rubles)

At Touché on Rochdelskaya (not to be confused with the Touch restaurant in the Balchug region) bread is made with a special unleavened sourdough, but with the addition of sesame, oatmeal, flax and sunflower seeds. Just for reference: unleavened bread is better absorbed, activates the work of everything needed inside and contains more useful substances than ordinary bread.

Rustic gray bread with a crispy crust is baked in a special wicker mold and served with homemade whipped butter.

Address: st. Rochdelskaya, 15с22

septa

Cranberry / whipped butter bread (150 rubles per bread basket)

Who said bread has to be neutral? The Septa wine bar prepares a dessert option – fragrant, slightly spicy, based on rye yeast. Ground cumin adds a bitter-spicy touch to the bread, while fermented rye malt makes it sweet as honey. Contains fresh cranberries and the best it can bring – vitamins C, E, K1, PP.

The bread is served with fluffy butter whipped with miso paste and mashed gooseberry with seeds.

Address: st. Bolshaya Filevskaya, 4