Grand cru | Simple

Wine minded restaurant and wine boutique: the perfect synergy

Listed in the MICHELIN Guide 2022 Moscow with a star, the Grand Cru restaurant was established by Simple back in 2006 and, by Moscow’s standards, boasts a pretty long history. The restaurant is located in Patriarch’s Ponds, a fashionable area in central Moscow that hosts many good restaurants and bars, so it has come to be known as the patriarch of Patriarch’s Ponds. The Grand Cru Head Chef, David Hemmerlé, calls himself a wine-minded chef, as his approach to menu design, both for the à la carte menu and wine tasting menu —is always around wine. Grand Cru’s heart and soul is its outstanding wine collection, featuring 1,200 entries, of which at least 70 are served by the glass. The professionalism of the restaurant’s sommeliers and its unique vertical wine collection made Grand Cru a three-time winner of the prestigious Best of Award of Excellence by Wine Spectator. Grand Cru employs an expert team of 6 sommeliers and head sommelier Pavel Kravchenko, recipient of the Best Sommelier of Russia award. The restaurant’s managing director is Tatiana Mann-Pakhmutova, Academy Chair of 50 World’s Best Vineyards, Eastern Europe. The restaurant is officially partnered with M2, an organic farm based in Ruza near Moscow. The quality of its meat, cheeses and produce has been verified by EcoGlobe, a European organic certification body.

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Malaya Bronnaya str., 22 building 2, Moscow, Russia, 123104

Wine minded restaurant and wine boutique: the perfect synergy

To the restaurant's website

Six sommeliers work with wine at Grand Cru, and Chef Sommelier Pavel Kravchenko is the winner of the "Best Sommelier of Russia" award. Managing director of the restaurant is Tatiana Mann-Pakhmutova, chairperson of the jury of 50 World's Best Vineyards (Eastern Europe). The official partner of the restaurant is M2 farm in Ruza. Meat, cheese and vegetables have European organic EcoGlobe certificates.

Atmosphere

"Grand Cru wine restaurant remains the place for those who want and enjoy thoughtful drinking. A chamber-like, almost homely atmosphere is what I strived for when creating Grand Cru. If you want to be at the forefront of the wine world, you should definitely not miss any of the enogastronomic dinners held here.

Maxim Kashirin, President of Simple Group

Wine minded

To be wine minded is to be oriented towards wine, a very complex product in terms of perception in the palate, very rich, very capricious, which is not open to everyone. It takes both intelligence and education to truly love and understand wine. Wine costs money, but it makes you richer. Wine dictates the terms. It both cooperates with the chef and competes with him, there is never a dull moment with wine. It's not easy, it's a challenge, but if it works out, it's double luck. Everything is coming together beautifully and right now. I'm a wine minded chef myself, and it's endlessly exciting to cook for such guests, in a restaurant with such a concept.

David Emmerle