Bjorn Moscow

Scandinavian

Anton from Moscow

""Bjorn" in Moscow is a Scandinavian restaurant that serves 'wild' food. They take wild-sourced ingredients and also cook them wild. Quite an experience!"

Strolling around Moscow streets near my office, I passed by the Bjorn restaurant many times, never feeling that I needed to dive in and have a lunch there. How can a Scandinavian dish ever surprise you?

And it's a great shame for me that I had missed it before: it can and indeed it did surprise me. I would call this place and its cuisine "wild". They take wild-sourced ingredients, like northern berries, wild salmon or venison (deer's meat), and cook it wild. That is: serve it uncooked, or burn it, or cook it in ashes, or process it any other wild way you imagine. From starters to desserts. Pure wildness.

Don't be confused by the Nordic titles and strange descriptions in the menu: their waiters will passionately suggest their best dishes to you and explain the details (and, what I appreciate the most, the philosophy) behind every single item.

What I personally like in Bjorn are their Smorrebrods and soups. Their exotic "Mushroom lemonade" is also worth trying.

This place is middle-class price range, andthe plates are not so big, so I usually take one or two starters, a soup, and one or two main courses to be completely satisfied.

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Moscow Spotter Anton

About me I'm a Rocket Engineer developing attitude control systems for space satellites. It's believed that such a guy should have a "fast food" diet, but that's not my case. I love cooking (including making my own hard cheese) and always search for unusual, cool places. I'm also a frequent traveler (57 countries so far), and always try to get off the beaten tracks away from tourist crowds. The reward is awesome: talking to native locals about their life in Tehran, or going to an underground disco in Santiago de Cuba are priceless. Why Moscow I was born in Moscow when ...

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