Moscow restaurants

Stick with the basics-lobio, eggplant roulette and dolma-and you can't go wrong. Ruble prices unaffect− ed by Moscow boom, making Dioscarius one of the greatest bargains around! Almost as cheap as Guriya, but thrice the quality. One taste of their sturgeon shash− lyk or Adzharian khachapuri (with a fried egg in the mid− dle) and you'll be hooked. The delicious lavash bread comes piping hot, perfect for sopping up leftover juices.

Wild fluctuations in quality remind us of the Nasdaq. Recent lulya kebab served blackened on the outside, raw on the inside and apparently deep fried. Still has deafening live music sung on weekend evenings. Menu doesn't quite have all the favorites (meaning dolma); sometimes the backroom mafia feel is a bit too realis− tic.

Nikitski Bulvar dom 5, str. 1,(through the post office arch on Novy Arbat), Phone: 291−3759