Waiting places near Moscow embassy

[Steve S 2]

I will need a place to nervously drink coffee and pass the time (hell, I might even take up smoking!) while Irina is inside the embassy for her interview. Who knows a good place to reconoitre?

[Oksana81 0]

I will need a place to nervously drink coffee and pass the time (hell, I might even take up smoking!) while Irina is inside the embassy for her interview. Who knows a good place to reconoitre?

Depends on what time is the interview. If it's after 10am, I can suggest a mall (they call it Trade Center) within 2-minute walking from the Embassy. I believe there is a restraurant/cafe inside.

[Neonred 3,564]

The interviews start at 8:00 and not very many places are open. I found a good coffee shop just a block up the street. With the embassy to your back and facing the street go to the left as if you are headed to the zoo. Across the street at the next major intersection is the cafe. Great pastries there too. Can't remember the name of the place, but I took some pictures of it. I will try to did them up and post them.

Edited December 8, 2009 by Neonred

[Neonred 3,564]

Found those pictures. They were on VJ all along. Just click on my photos or go to my page, neonred, and look at my photos.

Edited December 8, 2009 by Neonred

[slim 1,525]

Those photos are perfect, Neon!

Isn't there a special underpass or something to cross that street? I remember somebody way back saying they almost got killed four times trying to cross and then someone else said, "use the underpass, stupid." Was that this cafe or somewhere else?

[Neonred 3,564]

Those photos are perfect, Neon!

Isn't there a special underpass or something to cross that street? I remember somebody way back saying they almost got killed four times trying to cross and then someone else said, "use the underpass, stupid." Was that this cafe or somewhere else?

I don't remember an underpass. The first time I visited the embassy (early 2004?) there was an overhead walkway, but in March 2006 when these pictures were taken it was gone.

[Oksana81 0]

Those photos are perfect, Neon!

Isn't there a special underpass or something to cross that street? I remember somebody way back saying they almost got killed four times trying to cross and then someone else said, "use the underpass, stupid." Was that this cafe or somewhere else?

yes, there is an underpass

[slim 1,525]

yes, there is an underpass

See, I'm not crazy!

[lee08 0]

I was scared of missing my wife when she came out so I just walked back and forth in front of the embassy for two hours. It was cold in early March!

The other guys are right on about the coffee shop and shopping mall though. The mall is just up the street on the same side as the embassy.

[Steve S 2]

Same side of the street, as in -- if you are walking straight out from the main entrance, you turn left and walk a block or two until you get to the mall. Do you also have to take that underpass?

When I last cased it out, we had our back to the embassy entrance, turned right, went around a corner (there is a sidewalk that cuts across this corner) and headed to the right on this other street where we eventually saw a couple of cafes I think, and a zoo entrance. Too lazy to search around for street names at this particular moment.

It doesn't matter that much, because we will check it out in advance -- but in case it is bitter cold that day, I want to have as clear a sense of the layout as I can before our perambulation.

I choose not to wait outside for 2-3 hours, in January!

I was scared of missing my wife when she came out so I just walked back and forth in front of the embassy for two hours. It was cold in early March!

The other guys are right on about the coffee shop and shopping mall though. The mall is just up the street on the same side as the embassy.

[MyMother 0]

I am sure you will like Lotte Plaza which is 1 block from the Embassy.

http://www.lotteplaza.ru/english/

[Oksana81 0]

I am sure you will like Lotte Plaza which is 1 block from the Embassy.

http://www.lotteplaza.ru/english/

what time do they open though? 10am?

Address : Moscow Novinsky Bulvar Dom 8

Phone No. : +7 (495) 641-2500

Close : Year-round operation

(excluding January 1)

Open : 10 A.M. ~ 10 P.M.

Azubuka Vkusa (supermarket, B1) is open 24 hours

[slim 1,525]

I went to all kinds of Lotte stores in S. Korea, I'm almost surprised to see one in Moscow. Almost.

[Neonred 3,564]

You better be standing out in front of the embassy a little before 10:00. My girl was one of the first in line and exited shortly after 10:00. If I had not been waiting.....