Ivan and Sergey Berezutskiy are identical twins. They opened Twins Garden on Strastnoy Boulevard in 2017, and it is the most ambitious restaurant Russia has produced. The hook is the farm. Up to 70 percent of the produce comes from the brothers' own land outside Moscow, often picked that morning, and the kitchen ferments it into vegetable and mushroom "wines" made nowhere else. Two tasting menus run the room — Rediscover Russia and the vegetable-led Garden menu — behind a cellar of more than a thousand labels, the largest in the country.
The Kitchen
The brothers trained across Europe before they built Twins Garden as a working laboratory: an open kitchen, a Russian oven, a fermentation room, and behind glass a research lab with a mushroom wall. The signature is a salad of dozens of vegetables and leaves cut from the farm that morning. It is the whole project in one plate — produce treated with the care most kitchens save for meat.
Take the Garden menu. It walks the table through the wine room, the lab and the kitchen for different courses, paired if you want with the house vegetable and mushroom wines the twins invented. The tasting starts around ₽8,000 a head before pairings. The credentials are dated and real: World's 50 Best Restaurants, entered at No. 19 in 2019 and No. 30 in 2021, plus two Michelin stars and a Green Star in the 2021 Moscow guide before Michelin dropped its Russia coverage. The kitchen still runs the two-menu programme at 8/1 Strastnoy Boulevard.
The Room
The space is large and light, high on the Boulevard Ring: tall ceilings, the open kitchen as the focal point, the glassed lab visible from the floor. The light is bright and modern, not candlelit. The sound is a steady hum that climbs as the room fills. Tables are generously spaced, and reservations are held for three hours, so nobody moves you on. Dress is smart. Ask to walk the cellar.
Best for Impressing Clients
Book Twins Garden to impress a client for three reasons: it tells a story no other Moscow table can — a restaurant with its own farm, its own fermentation lab, and wines that exist nowhere else — the three-hour booking leaves room to actually talk, and the generous spacing keeps it private. The World's 50 Best and two-star pedigree signals you did the homework. Take the Garden menu and open with the cellar walk. More in our Moscow dining guide.
Not for
Not for a quick dinner or a cards-only traveller. The tasting runs three hours, and foreign Visa and Mastercard have not worked in Russia since 2022, so arrange a local payment method or cash before you go.