Twins Garden

Ivan and Sergey Berezutskiy — identical twins — opened Twins Garden on Strastnoy Boulevard in 2017 and turned it into the most ambitious restaurant Russia has produced. The hook is the farm: most of the produce arrives 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 — backed by a cellar of more than a thousand labels, the largest wine list in the country.

The Kitchen

Ivan and Sergey Berezutskiy trained across Europe before opening Twins Garden in 2017 as a working laboratory: an open kitchen, a traditional 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 brought in from the farm that morning, a dish that reads as a manifesto for the whole project — vegetables treated with the care most kitchens reserve for meat.

The Garden tasting menu is the one to take: it moves the table through the wine room, the lab and the kitchen for different courses, paired where you want it with the house vegetable and mushroom wines the brothers invented. The Twins Signature tasting starts at roughly ₽8,000 per person before pairings. The accolades are real and dated: a place on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list (No. 30 in 2021), and two Michelin stars plus a Green Star in the 2021 Moscow guide before Michelin discontinued its Russia coverage. The kitchen the twins built continues to run the two-menu program at 8/1 Strastnoy Boulevard.

The Room

Twins Garden spreads across a large, light-filled space on the Boulevard Ring: high ceilings, an open kitchen as the focal point, and a glassed laboratory you can see into from the floor. Lighting is bright and modern rather than candlelit, the sound level a steady hum that lifts when the dining room fills, and tables are generously spaced — reservations are held for three hours, so no one rushes you out. Dress is smart; this is a destination room, not a neighbourhood spot. Ask to walk the wine cellar, which holds over a thousand labels.

Best for Impressing Clients

Book Twins Garden to impress a client because it gives you a story no other Moscow table can: a restaurant with its own farm, its own fermentation research and wines that exist nowhere else, all explained as the menu walks you through the lab and cellar. The three-hour reservation leaves room for a real conversation, the generous table spacing keeps it private, and the World’s 50 Best pedigree signals you did your homework. Take the Garden menu for the most distinctive version, and request the cellar walk to open the evening.