While your business may close during the May holidays, restaurants will still be open. What better way to spend a few lazy hours than enjoying a tasty, well-priced lunch knowing that you don’t need to scarf everything down and get back to work. Check out the list below and take some time to enjoy a leisurely business lunch on a weekday this holiday.

1. Check Point

Check Point is famous for its Madagascan chef Andreus Ramilison and his simple yet unique style of cooking. You can choose from an array of tasty appetizers, salads, soups and main courses. We recommend the specialty of the house: smoked salmon. Business lunch is served on weekdays, from noon to 5 p.m. and costs approximately 120-200 rubles.

2. Gulden

Gulden is a gastronomic gem. Its business lunch menu is so big it could be an entire menu. For 250 rubles, from noon to 4 p.m., you can choose from a variety of delicious Flemish and French food including salads, starters and pancakes. Plus, there’s always a huge assortment of fish and meat dishes, soups, smoked delicacies and drinks including beer.

3. Mekhana Bansko

Mekhana Bansko is one of the most hospitable restaurants in Moscow, and the only true Bulgarian one. The interior is also conducive to lunchtime relaxation. Their business lunch is served from noon to 4 p.m. and the menu changes every week, but the prices are consistent: 250 rubles for a salad, soup, main course and drink. You can pay an extra 50 rubles for a scrumptious dessert or a glass of authentic Bulgarian homemade wine.

4. Gin-No Taki

If you want someplace in the very center of Moscow then Gin-No Taki on Tverskaya Ul. is one of the finest eateries around. With most Japanese food being very expensive, Gin-No Taki is unusual in that it offers good quality and charges reasonable prices. They serve four types of hearty business lunch with sushi, salads, soups, desserts and green tea from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. for only 300 rubles.

5. Guroo

Professional lunchers revel in Guroo’s light salads, rice and delicious butter chicken. The menu features the best that India has to offer, all carefully cooked and presented to appeal to the European as well as the Asian palate. Business lunch is served from noon to 4 p.m. for 220 rubles.

6. Krasny restaurant

With an emphasis on truly authentic Oriental fare the Krasny restaurant might not suit everyone’s taste, but if you appreciate fine sushi, Mongolian lamb soup or soft cheese, this is the place for you. From noon to 4 p.m. Krasny offers three varieties of business lunch: Japanese for $6, Mongolian for $9 and Chinese for $10.

7. Oblomov

Oblomov keeps receiving heaps of praise from both the influential food press and its guests. Meat is what this restaurant is famous for, which is why there are no fish alternatives available on the business lunch menu. For $10 you can have cucumber salad, traditional Russian cabbage soup, a main course and a fruit drink.

8. Kolbasoff

The newly born Kolbasoff always seems to be busy. They offer three types of business lunch from noon to 4 p.m.: $5.50 for soup and salad; $7.50 for a salad and main course; or $9 for a salad, soup, main course and a dessert of tea, juice or ice cream. The combination of Spanish, Italian, Russian and German cuisine and the sparse modern interior encourage interesting debate, and make it an ideal place to entertain your colleagues or friends.

9. Jagannath

At Jagannath you’ll feel quite at home amid the other vegetarians. Relaxed and informal, it offers a fine selection of Indian, Mexican, Vietnamese, Japanese and Chinese food in lovely surroundings. For 140 rubles, from noon to 3 p.m., you can have a salad, soup, main course and tea; for 300 rubles, from noon to 6 p.m., you can have more unusual dishes from the main menu, plus a traditional Oriental dessert.

10. Tunnel

Tunnel attracts many serious businesspeople who feel addicted to the five lunches available between noon and 4 p.m. It costs $4 for a Russian business lunch, (salad, soup, main course and a fruit drink); $5 for a Chinese business lunch (salad, main course, rice and tea); $6 for a European business lunch; $7 for an American lunch (salad, smoked veal hamburger and tea or coffee); and $8 for a Japanese lunch.

LOCATION:

Cafe des Artistes

5/6 Kamergersky Per. Metro: Okhotny Ryad Tel: 292-4042

Kolbasoff

21 Taganskaya Ul. Metro: Marksistskaya Tel: 258-5900

Gulden

11/6 Solyanka Ul., Bldg. 1 Metro: Kitai-Gorod Tel: 917-9599

Mekhana Bansko

9/1 Smolenskaya Pl. Metro: Smolenskaya Tel: 241-3132

Tunnel

7 Lubyansky Proyezd Metro: Lubyanka Tel: 937-4101

Krasny

30 Prechistenka Ul. Metro: Kropotkinskaya Tel: 202-5649

Gin-No Taki

6 Tverskaya Ul. Metro: Okhotny Ryad Tel: 292-5350

Oblomov

1st 5 Monetchikovsky Per. Metro: Paveletskaya Tel: 953-6828

Guroo

20/30 Kzhizhanovskovo Ul. Metro: Profsoyuznaya Tel: 125-6276

Jagannath

11 Kuznetsky Most Ul. Metro: Kuznetsky Most Tel: 928-3580

Check Point

5 Petrovka Ul. Metro: Kuznetsky Most, Teatralnaya, Okhonty Ryad Tel: 775-1959/69