Moscow Restaurant 莫斯科餐厅

Virtually the first Western restaurant in Beijing, the Moscow’s dining room still serves Russian favorites like borscht, chicken Kiev and vodka by the glass. This one-time ballroom is grand, epic even, with soaring ceilings and oh-so-Soviet pillars. Moscow opened back in 1954, and was Beijing’s first foreign restaurant. Though the atmosphere recalls Tolstoy, the food is a little more Gulag Archipelago and the Stolichnaya is reasonably priced.