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Arte FAQ
By day it’s the perfect place for a coffee and a read, come the evening it’s a great idea for a restaurant or cocktail
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B2 Club
One of Moscow's biggest live music clubs, B2 plays hosts to all kinds of jazz, latino, rock and ska music and more. With five
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Bilingua
A great barn of a place that hosts a variety of well-respected underground music acts and is generally frequented by the poorer dregs of the student population.
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Cafe Retseptor
Tread carefully down the steep stairs and make yourself at home in this tiny artistic cellar bar. Every inch of the place has been customised or graffitied by the regulars giving the whole ensemble a very lived in and loved feel.
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Chinatown Cafe
The entrance promises something Oriental as you cross over the Chinese bridge covered by Chinese roof tiling, but when you arrive in the bar proper, you may be disappointed to see it’s just your standard exposed brick, candle-lit restaurant.
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Cult
This is one for the cool kids who are into their funk and deep soul music and can keep dancing to it until the sun rises. At first
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DeFAQto
This third venue in the FAQ chain of alternative bars is a bit of jumble of styles and ideas. Like a strange cross between English
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Duma
If you can find it you won’t be disappointed. This place is not only literally underground it’s also through a couple of courtyards and hidden down an alley.
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F.A.Q. Cafe
The old branch of this long loved underground cafe had to be closed down due to fire safety reasons, and although this new incarnation looks great, it has lost completely the atmosphere of the cramped old little den of bohemian excitement.
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Kitaisky Lyotchik
This underground labyrinth of three bar spaces is popular with the alternative set. Affordable prices, live bands on weekends and casual atmosphere bordering on grunge are what some consider added bonuses.
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Krisis Zhanra
Popular with young yuppies who haven't forgotten their student days just yet, this place is a little bohemian paradise.
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Masterskaya
What is there not to love about this folksy ex-banya with the air of an underground Viennese coffee house mashed together with a bohemian artist’s studio.
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Squat Cafe
This place does indeed have the feeling of a Squat to it - tatty furniture, graffiti covered walls, a lot of cigarette smoke and local hippies pop up everywhere you look.
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