Who said fast food is just McDonald's and the company? In fact, there was fast food in Russia (and even earlier in the USSR), and very good. I decided to collect memories of the most interesting and delicious places that were, and some are still working and make up a kind of "people's rating" of memories.
I myself want to note two places that are especially vividly engraved in my memory.
Shpikachki
At the crossing of Tsvetnoy Boulevard, next to the circus, they were selling crazy stuff. They were placed in a paper bag or on a paper plate, filled with vigorous mustard, sweet ketchup, and a few slices of bread. Closer to lunchtime and until the evening, there was a lot to stand in line to buy this yummy.
Donuts
We, on Kolomenskaya, made delicious donuts. Then I heard more than once that many came for them to buy themselves a couple of packages and pamper themselves and their family.
Next will be the memories of the collective mind (thanks to friends from Facebook, they helped!).
Simple food
Food court in the shopping center "Komsomolsky" near the Kazan station. There, it turns out, they cook very well simple but hearty dishes - borscht, Olivier, potatoes with cutlets. People testify: the courtyard was still in operation in the fall, everything was ok. So there is a hope that after self-isolation the place will also open.
Shawarma in Moscow
According to the friend's recollections, the best one was near the Aviamotornaya metro station, at the exit to the Kalinin square. It seems that the Syrians did it. Now it's not worth looking - the place worked in 2002.
Dumplings
A good dumpling was at the exit from the Ploschad Nogina metro station, opposite the Polytechnic Museum. But I remember the dumplings on Dobryninskaya. There you could try any dumplings, inexpensively. In broth, with different meats, fried. And of course with a glass. Eh, beauty.
Chebureks
Everything is complicated with them - there were many places and townships, and all of them, according to the memoirs of cheburek-worshipers, sold food above all praise.
Twenty years ago, the most delicious pasties in Moscow were made on Yaroslavskaya Street, behind the Cosmos Hotel. And also (and also the most delicious in Moscow) chebureks were made in the market near Novoslobodskaya metro station.
There were also (and, as they say, still are) cheburek at Solyanka and Sukharevka. Both have existed since Soviet times to the present day, and cause considerable holivars among the regulars, as one of these regulars wrote. If anyone was - share your impressions, I'm already interested in myself - is it really so tasty?
Cheburechnaya was also celebrated on Brest street
Pancakes
There were pancakes too. But I managed to remember one - a pancake near the Taganskaya metro station. And now it hardly works.
But this is from the category “not in Moscow”, and I was very interested in the name: there were several cafes “Salodki falvarak” in Minsk. They baked such a thing - cheese maker. If suddenly someone tried it, not even there - share your impressions that it actually was.
And of course, special thanks to everyone who adds their memories in the comments.
Are we feeling nostalgic?