In such a large metropolis as Moscow, all kinds of restaurants, cafes and eateries will always be a success with both local residents and guests who come here for various matters. Quite often, all kinds of places where you can eat very quickly turn out to be especially convenient - the so-called fast foods. This is primarily the well-known "McDonald's", KFC and other similar restaurants.
Many of them came to us from the United States of America. No exception were the eateries called Shake Shack, which appeared in Moscow only a couple of years ago.
What kind of restaurants are these?
Shake Shack Restaurants are owned by Union Square Hospitality Group, an American company. Its director is the famous restaurateur from New York, Danny Meyer.
Back in 1985, Meyer opened his first restaurant called Union Square Cafe and has since been closely engaged in the restaurant business. To date, his company owns eleven establishments, including Maialino, The Modern, North End Grill and others. All of them, including the Shake Shack restaurant, collect mostly positive reviews in their address, and some of them have received very impressive awards.
History of Shake Shack Restaurants
In the early 2000s, Danny Meyer came up with the idea of creating a restaurant where you could quickly have a burger meal and a milkshake. At the same time, a new place for food would have to meet high standards, to which the businessman is very strict.
It was a very interesting idea to implement, because not all residents of big cities can afford to calmly come to a restaurant, sit down at a table and wait for their order to be prepared. And in a new place, you could stand in line for a short while, choose a dish you like, have a quick meal and run on about your business.
The first such restaurant was opened in New York in 2004 and it is located in Madison Square. The menu should have offered not just some rolls with a patty or sausage inside, but almost complete dishes that use 100% natural Angus beef and other fresh ingredients.
Thus, the main highlight of Shake Shack restaurants was unusual recipes for fast food and high-quality products. All this was offered with great music in modern interiors, which should certainly have pleased visitors.
Shake Shack "walks" around the planet
For almost twelve years of its existence, the network of these restaurants, famous not only for hot dogs and burgers, but also for delicious ice cream, milkshakes and alcohol of their own production, has gained many fans around the world.
Shake Shack restaurants appeared in several states of America, and after that began to open in the cities of some other countries of the world: in the UK, Japan, Turkey and even in the Middle East. Russia also became a member of the popular Shake Shack movement, and the capital was the starting point.
When the first Shake Shack restaurant appeared in Moscow
The company decided to open its first Shake Shack restaurant in Moscow right in the city center - on a street called Arbat. This place has always been considered one of the most popular and beloved among both native Muscovites and numerous guests of the capital.
The opening ceremony was held on December 19, 2013, and Danny Meyer himself attended. He cut the ribbon, which was not red at all, as so many are used to. The ribbon was green, which perfectly symbolizes the entire Shake Shack project.
The development of Shake Shack in Moscow: restaurant addresses
As soon as residents and guests of the city learned about the new restaurant, crowds of visitors immediately reached here. Everyone really wanted to try these new burgers and hot dogs and, of course, compare them with other American counterparts.
Since such food is quite popular among our citizens, the Shake Shack chain in the Russian capital was soon replenished with a couple more of these restaurants. In October 2014, an institution was opened on Leningradskoye Shosse, and the third was located in the largest shopping and entertainment complex in Europe, near the Dynamo metro station.
All those who want to taste the delicious burgers prepared directly in Shake Shack, the addresses in Moscow of these restaurants should definitely be written down and kept at home. We will list all the establishments of this network with their detailed location so that everyone can easily find the restaurant he needs:
- Shake Shack on Arbat: st. Arbat, d. 38.
- Shake Shack (Metropolis): Leningradskoye Shosse, 16A, bld. 4, Metropolis Shopping Center.
- Shake Shack (“Aviapark”): st. 4 Khodynsky Boulevard, Aviapark shopping and entertainment center.
Mode of operation
Despite the fact that Shake Shack restaurants in Moscow are part of the same network, they work a little in a different mode. In the city center, you can enjoy the freshest burgers and hot dogs daily from 11:00 to 23:00. The restaurant in the shopping center "Metropolis" is also open until 23:00, but opens its doors to visitors an hour earlier - at 10.00 in the morning.
For guests who decide to try American cuisine at the Aviapark shopping center, the restaurant waits daily from 10:00 in the morning. However, on Fridays and Saturdays it is open until 23:00, and on other days until 22:00.
By the way, you have to personally come to one of these restaurants or ask friends to bring you some food from here if you want to try the burgers or desserts from Shake Shack. Delivery in Moscow at this restaurant chain is missing. Although you can always find companies that for a fee will be happy to provide you such a service.
What is in the menu of Shake Shack restaurants
It is worth noting that Shake Shack restaurants do not offer the fast food that most of our compatriots are used to. Here everyone cooks right on the spot and promises dishes made only from fresh and natural products.
All three Shake Shack restaurants in Moscow have very similar menus. In each of them there are six types of burgers, some of which can be ordered in standard size or double. For vegetarians there is a special shroom-burger with mushrooms and cheese, and for lovers of fresh meat there is, for example, a shakmeister with crispy shallots pickled in beer.
There are four types of hot dogs on the menu, including the usual kind of sausage and rolls that is understandable to any Russian, and, for example, the novelty is shak-kago with stunning celery salt, pickled cucumbers, relish, hot pepper and mustard.
A large selection of desserts is also presented, among which there are necks and custards. The last is ice cream, which is prepared on the spot from natural sugar and milk. And if the guest wants a custard mixed with some additives, for example, with strawberry puree or peanut butter, then this will turn out to be a concret.
Of the non-alcoholic drinks in the restaurants there are: lemonade, iced tea, mineral water and all kinds of soda. There is also a traditional non-alcoholic drink from Louisiana - the Abita root beer. Fans of alcoholic beverages can try bottled or draft beer here, and Shake Shack on Arbat and in the Metropolis shopping center also offers several types of wine.
Of course, here you can order a portion of hot french fries. And also, like in an American restaurant, Shake Shack in Moscow offers a special treat for dogs called Puccini, which is not recommended for small-sized pets.
A bit about prices at Shake Shack restaurants
It is worth paying attention of future Shake Shack visitors to the fact that the cost of local dishes is by no means as low as it might initially have seemed. The price segment of these restaurants is higher than that of the same McDonald's or King Burger.But, on the other hand, in all Shake Shack in Moscow the prices are very affordable, so everyone can drop by and eat here.
The cost of burgers here starts from 205 rubles. for a standard shack burger or cheeseburger. The most expensive option will be a double smok shack, the price of which is 395 rubles. For 30 rub. in any burger, you can add an additional portion of cheese, hot pepper or onion, and for 50 rubles. - bacon. A classic hot dog will cost only 135 rubles, and branded shack-kago and master dog cost 190 rubles.
You can taste corrugated french fries for 130 rubles. Paying 45 rubles., Guests will receive him also a delicious cheese sauce. You can try the necks for 215 rubles, the standard portion of custard - for 110 rubles. Any standard contract will cost the guest 195 rubles., Double - 250 rubles. And those who want to create their own version of concrit will have to pay 110 or 170 rubles. for standard or double size, respectively (and 30 rubles for each of the many possible additives).
Guest reviews of Shake Shack restaurants
If you like burgers and hot dogs, then you should definitely visit the Shake Shack restaurant (Moscow). Reviews about the restaurants of this network can be read in advance, since visitors are always willing to share their opinions.
Of course, when it comes to any kind of food, there can be no definite estimates, because everyone has different tastes. Some local dishes seem greasy and salty, others say that the burgers are very tasty and do not even compare with similar dishes in other restaurants. Portions seemed small to someone for such an unreasonably high cost, and someone called Shake Shack the best that could ever happen to burgers.
A big minus, some who visited these restaurants called the lack of hot drinks on the menu, which could be enjoyed simultaneously with delicious burgers and divine potatoes. But from the positive aspects they call the presence in the assortment of dishes an unusual vegetarian burger.
If you need a quick meal, and familiar places are already fed up, one of the Shake Shack restaurants will be an excellent choice. Indeed, in a rather cozy atmosphere, here you can taste delicious meat, fresh vegetables and unusually fragrant milk desserts.
