[Vision2020] Restaurants/Bars in Moscow (was Parking Survey)

[Megan Prusynski]

This is one thing that really baffles me about this town. It's  
supposed to be a college town, but the only nightlife we have is  
seedy bars crawling with frat boys where I'm likely to get my ass  
grabbed. I am only 23 but I almost never go to the bars anymore,  
maybe if there was an indoor smoking ban I may consider it. The crowd  
at those places is just not much fun, and I practically suffocate  
trying to dance at the Alley (which is, oddly enough, the only place  
that has live music on a consistent basis).

There is definitely a serious lack of restaurants, especially nicer  
and healthier organic ones geared towards the older-than-college-age  
crowd (Red Door being an exception, but there are only a couple  
dishes I can actually eat there). It's damn near impossible to find  
something I can eat in a nice restaurant in this town (I'm vegan &  
eat organic, the Co-op is pretty much the only place I can get a meal  
I don't cook myself). You'd think a town that is known for being on  
the liberal side would be a little more vegetarian friendly. I'm  
getting sick of the 8 or so vegetarian items on Sangria's menu, even  
though they're all pretty damn good. No juice bar? No raw food cafe?  
Not even a decent place to get pizza! (Now that I really can't  
believe in a college town, all the pizza places are really quite  
awful - and is there even a sit-down pizza place now that Brenagans  
is closed?).

I guess I could open a business such as a brick-oven pizza joint that  
actually served up some vegan/vegetarian organic pizza. But my art  
degree didn't require any business classes, so I have a feeling I  
wouldn't know what I'm doing. And I'm not sure how much support a  
vegetarian restaurant would get anyway.... oh, and it takes money to  
open a business. :)

Anyway, it's been a while since I've participated in Vision2020 after  
being unsubscribed for a while, so just thought I'd chime in and let  
you know that the crazy animal rights activist/vegan chick is still  
here... just not sure for how much longer. :) It won't be too long  
before I move somewhere on the west coast where I'm in the majority  
instead of the minority and can actually eat at a restaurant where  
I'm positive no animal flesh was cooked on the grill my food was made  
on.... Moscow is hard to leave but I'm sure I'll finally get around  
to it sometime.

Ciao for now, visionaries. It's always fun watching the mud fly  
around here. :)

~Megan


On Feb 15, 2007, at 8:28 AM, vision2020-request at moscow.com wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ellen Roskovich
> To: privatejf32 at hotmail.com ; vision2020 at moscow.com
> Cc: mmike at hotmail.com
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 1:06 AM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Parking Survey Under Way and other NSA  
> Issues
>
>
> And seriously. . . .how many night spots are there in Moscow for  
> young people to go to for fun?  Is there really any NICE place to  
> take a date and go dancing?  I'll even go so far to say this. . . .  
> is there any nice night spot for a middle-aged couple to go to for  
> dinner, a drink and maybe a dance?  THINK ABOUT IT!!
>
> Ellen A. Roskovich

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