Another restaurant by the celebrity British chef Jamie Oliver has opened in the historic center of Moscow, in the vicinity of Red Square, inside the Fashion Season Shopping Gallery. The new restaurant features the harmonious combination of exquisite interiors, tailored to the Moscow project by British designers, original comfortable furniture, cozy atmosphere, world known Jamie Oliver’s kitchen and qualified friendly service.

The interiors are complemented by the memorable views of the Bolshoi Theatre, the historic building of Metropol Hotel and other Moscow sights. The restaurant is equipped with the modern kitchen facilities: just to mention the unique pizza oven with uniform rotation that cooks an excellent pizza in 1.5 minute, or the fabulous home-made pasta machine.

Matteo Lai, the Italian chef, who was actually opening Jamie`s Italian in St. Petersburg, runs the restaurant kitchen. The menu consists of well-known Italian dishes, cooked by Jamie Oliver’s original recipes and author’s interpretation. It is important that every Jamie's Italian restaurant features open kitchen, antipasti show windows and fresh homemade pasta. Every day, our guests are presented a special offer and new creative cocktails at the bar.

The concept of Jamie Oliver’s restaurants implies the use of local products, so the world-known “happy chicken” is now being grown on a farm outside St. Petersburg upon the highest environmental standards. Jamie`s Italian restaurants are family friendly, and children here are given special attention.

Our kids’ menu is designed as a slide film with bright pictures, which are fun even to look at. The main characteristic of Jamie's Italian is the most careful product selection: farm meat and fish, seasonal vegetables, homemade pasta, best varieties of olive oil, free-range eggs, gluten-free sausages, and mineral salt. Another feature is original serving. Antipasti are served on wooden planks, made of recycled old ship pine boards by Jamie’s old friend Mike The Woodman. Jamie Oliver's main idea is to use the best eco-friendly ingredients. So in order to meet the brand highest standards the new restaurant staff went through a full training in the UK.

The restaurant accommodates 160 people. The average bill is 1500 rubles.

Matteo Lai

His relationship with cooking began in early childhood. How else could it have been, when his mother and sister were professional chefs? He started learning their secrets of cooking when he was a child. Matteo's family owned two restaurants, and the boy spent all his time in the kitchen. At the age of thirteen he went into a culinary school, when he was eighteen he went through additional confectioners' courses at the Institute of Culinary Arts ETOILE.

His relationship with cooking began in early childhood. How else could it have been, when his mother and sister were professional chefs? He started learning their secrets of cooking when he was a child. Matteo's family owned two restaurants, and the boy spent all his time in the kitchen. At the age of thirteen he went into a culinary school, when he was eighteen he went through additional confectioners' courses at the Institute of Culinary Arts ETOILE.

Since then, confectionery became the Italian’s passion. He regularly contributes to restaurant menus of the Ginza Project with his novelties. He used to work as pastry chef of the Ginza Project group restaurants the Capuletti, the Ginza and the SunDay Ginza. When the Jamie's Italian restaurant opened, he took over the kitchen at the latest addition to the worldwide chain.

Matteo Lai used to work at many European restaurants. He trained in Belgium, France, England, as well as at the Italian restaurant San Domenico in Imola, which was awarded two Michelin stars. He then moved to Russia, where he has worked as Chef for four years.