Danilovskaya

Danilovskaya Review

This hotel is serene and lovely, with fountains, religious-themed paintings, and domed monastery buildings—it's inside the walls of the Danilovsky (St. Daniel) Monastery. —the official residence of Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow and All Russia. The church holds conferences here, and also sponsors concerts and exhibitions. The rooms have crisp new linens and lacquered-wood furnishings; preserved elements such as polished parquet floors and cornice molding keep them from feeling corporate. Three deluxe apartments, complete with stone dining tables and canopied beds, are vast. The restaurant sources many of its recipes from old religious texts, though its real forte is baked goods, multitudes of which are continually extracted from tall ovens to provide guests their daily bread. Though far from the center, the hotel is just a five-minute walk from a metro station.