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MÖVENPICK AVANT-GARDE RESTAURANT Shagal is the first avant-garde reastaurant in Moscow.

The project is located on the first floor of the Mövenpick Moscow Taganskaya hotel 5*, a new place for gastronomic experience in the best traditions of avant-garde: just as bright, vivid and bold.

«Avant-garde is exactly a movement forward, towards a new perception and thinking» – says Vitaliy Baranov, a young and creative chef. Here, at Shagal, we create the unique world, where food is a part of art and associative presentation is a part of performance. Here you see how creative forms, original tastes, unusual textures come to the forefront in each dish. And, of course, everything is served on the hand-made ceramics.

The menu also contains gastronomic codes that are essential for all Mövenpick hotels: Tartare from beef, Reese Casimir with exotic fruit and curry, Zurich veal, and Swiss carrot cake. These dishes are marked with a “seagull” in the menu: it was the seagulls flying to the Zurich Lake, looking for something to eat, which one inspired Ueli Prager, the founder, to name the brand Mövenpick which became the symbol of Mövenpick hotel (the restaurant’s location).

During the famous Mövenpick chocolate hour, which takes place daily in the Shagal Restaurant from 4 PM to 5 PM, you can meet friends or hold business negotiations, and at the same time taste the Mövenpick signature treats. Chocolate and designer chocolates with fillings in accordance with the brand standards are made in the confectionery department of the restaurant by Vitaliy Baranov and his team. The sweets are served to the guests by waiters in traditional Swiss costumes.

The avant-garde story will be incomplete if you do not look in the neighboring bar. Art cocktails with unexpected flavours are created here by the masters of mixology under the guidance of chief bartender Dmitriy Bolondz.

Most signature drinks are named after the masterpieces by Marc Chagall.