Noor — Restaurant in Tverskoy District

Noor was the greatest disappointment I ever experienced in Moscow. I was born and grew up in Moscow before I left to Germany a few years ago. I love this city and Noor was highly recommended to my friend by her colleague who travels to Moscow for business. My friend and I are successful business women and met in Germany around 10 years ago. For many years, I told her about Moscow and how lovey this place can be. Finally, we could arrange a private vacation for a few days. We had quite a great time until our last day when we planned to visit a great bar-club and followed the recommendation.

Well, my friend happened to be an intelligent, sweet, honest and great woman from Ukraine. There were two security guys at the front door at around 4 a.m in the night between the 27th & 28th July. I am sincerely sad that I did not catch the name of the left-hand guy around 45-50 years of age with a country-guy face and fake teeth who meant to feel the power of the guest selection by the place of birth. While his colleague, a polite younger security man tried to smooth the situation, that rude Nazi turned my friend down with the words "You have the Ukraine passport? Your kind is forbidden the entry. Now leave the premisses".

In my entire life I was not that ashamed to be a Moscovite. I expected us to be progressive advanced intelligent people. I'd expect such a behavior from a trashy run-down "hole" somewhere in the suburbs, but not from a place like Noor on Tverskaya. I will certainly make sure that all relevant tourists pages and information sources as well as all my colleagues and business partners get informed. I am sure my friend will...

I like this place and visit it from time to time for a couple of years already. It is quite stylish, good choice and quality of drinks. The prices are higher than average in Moscow, but the bar is mostly visited by expats and foreigners so it gives the reason for that. On the weekend the DJs here are really amazing, that’s what you should definitely check out if you like electro music! However - it’s very crowded Friday and Saturday nights as well, gets difficult to get to the bar sometimes.

Apart from all theses advantages there’s one problem of this place - the managers and staff members here do take advantage from the foreign audience and can easily cheat on them with the final bill. We faced it several times, especially if there are a lot of drinks on the bill shared by many people. So would be useful to have at least one local guest with you not to pay them...

Not so long ago this place was one of the best places in Moscow for a cocktail and a great night - it's now three times bigger, three times busier and not as much fun as it was.

We had 4 drinks with 3 of them made fresh and delicious. 1 had been pre made and sat on the bar for 10 minutes as I ordered which to my surprise was then given to me - after telling the barman I didn't want an old crusty cocktail for £10 he insisted by shouting loudly that I'd ordered this drink so should take this drink). Other staff were great!

Overall: Music, crowd and general ambiance aren't as good as they used to be but still a decent place...