Central Market

Central market is an ideal place for a relaxed family breakfast on Saturday morning, a lunch with friends after a city center walk or any other reason if you need one to enjoy your meal! 🙂

Thursday night is great to slow down and prepare for your weekend. Come along, with a couple or with a group of friends to have dinner listening to the best jazz bands in Moscow. Every Thursday night 18.30h till 20.30h

Weekend at the Central Market is a great solution as apart from buying fresh produce and enjoying a meal at one of the many small restaurants that offer a choice of most of the world’s popular cuisines, you can listen to a life music concert, i e solo guitar, a flute of a sax. Its an ideal place to meet for a chat with your close friends. Live music is every Friday and Saturday night 18.00-22.00h. They Market management says it’s «calm, cozy and stylish at the same time».

Some history 🙂

1840s They started to sell singing birds, pigeons and small animals at Trubnaya Square.

1917-1922 Trubnaya Square becomes the center for mass entertainment

1922 The market becomes more ‘civilized’. They built 1200 wooden tents and started to trade all the types of goods. The market now has its own architecture 🙂

1951

In the North of the Square they start selling flowers and various decorative plants and fruit trees. This later gave the name to the place, ‘Tsvetnoi Boulevard», which translates as ‘the boulevard of flowers».

1961

The Central market is reorganized. Architect Shilmeister and engineer Leonov erect a building in brick. The building hosts both the Central Market and Central Universal Shop. The market becomes the main market in the country.

In 1994, after the collapse of the Soviet Union this place, as many in the country, were in dismay. Most of the buildings were dismantled, apart from the very main one, which remained but just wasn’t looked after. This continued till 2014, when they decided to restore the building. They re-opened the Central Market in 2017 and nowadays its a popular and fashionable place for Muscovites to meet up.

In summer they open a roof top terrace, where you can enjoy your favorite food, soak in the ambiance, practise yoga early in the morning or listen to popular DJs at the sunset.

Nowadays Central Market hosts 75 «food concepts» (direct translation from Russian :). This includes cuisine of different countries, restaurants focused on seafood, place that makes ice cream, another one that makes waffles, a wine bar that boasts 7500 different wines and a knowledgeable sommelier and so on and so on.