The soft drinks bar offers a very large selection of coffee, tea bags, biscuits, cream pies and even homemade buns. Plus, in the Butterfly anti-cafe, visitors are allowed to do something that is not allowed to do in any ordinary cafe - they can not order anything at all, but simply eat the food that they brought here with them.
For entertainment, visitors are offered various board games, the latest press, mafia, game console and wi-fi. Nothing and no one can stop a person here from doing what he wants. People come here to read, work, play, and so on.
“Butterflies” also encourages communication and creativity due to its unusual design. The interior is made in light colors. The furniture in the antique cafe is all white, only gray ottomans with blue rugs make the interior a little colorful. Daylight and space make the anti-cafe room simply huge, giving it a feeling of cleanliness and freedom.
The organizers of this extraordinary cafe say that the famous Russian architect Sergei Borisovich Kiselev used to live and work in this room. In their opinion, he transferred all his energy and positive attitude to this place. The employees also assure that the walls of the anti-cafe have a soul. Perhaps that is why this establishment became so popular so quickly: just a month after its opening, there was already a crowd of people here. And the long line even went out onto the stairs and only in the late evening did it dissipate.
According to the authors of this business idea, the basis for the concept of this extraordinary anti-cafe, in which you pay for the actual time of stay, and not the ordered dishes, was the idea of \u200b\u200b“a foreign place” by the famous sociologist Ray Oldenberg. According to this idea, it is with the help of a foreign place that you can temporarily forget about problems at work and household chores. This idea has much in common with Freud's own concept of happiness. According to her, happiness is “when there is a job you love and a loved one.”
Only Oldenberg’s idea has a small addition: “work with pleasure when no one interferes.”
Which antique cafes in Moscow offer the lowest prices? Where is the cheapest place to spend time in a cafe in Moscow?
In Moscow, cafes have become widespread where you pay only for the time spent in it, and tea, coffee and simple treats are provided free of charge. Such places are called differently: free spaces, clubs, cafes with per-minute payment, anti-cafes. Despite the difference in names, the principles of operation of such establishments are similar. In such cafes and clubs there is no full menu, but you have the opportunity to bring food with you or order it delivered.
The free spaces have everything you need for both relaxation and work. For example, almost everywhere there are a variety of board games, and various events are held - lectures, master classes, concerts, etc. For work, there are rooms equipped with sockets, free wi-fi, libraries, film projectors, MFPs, etc.
Alcohol and smoking are prohibited in almost all anti-cafes and free spaces (it is allowed only in specially designated areas).
When talking about anti-cafes in Moscow, one cannot help but touch on the history of their origin.
Similar cafes with per-minute payment began to open in the capital at the end of 2011, and the pioneers of this business were Ivan Mitin and Indira Staringat, who invented the “Tree House” entertainment club, which was reminiscent of a home cafe. Studio guests were asked to pay as much as they saw fit. This money was used to pay rent and other expenses, including tea, coffee and treats for guests (cookies, gingerbread). The cafe became very popular and could no longer accommodate everyone, so the idea of expansion arose. This is how the idea arose to create a free space called “Ziferblat”, where visitors pay not for food, but for the time spent there.
The first anti-cafe “Tsiferblat” opened on Pokrovka, then the same leisure areas appeared in other cities - St. Petersburg, Kyiv, Nizhny Novgorod, Odessa, Kazan. They also appeared in other countries. There are also several such cafes in Moscow. The founders call their project a free space or cafe. A cozy homely atmosphere has been created here without the pathos of a restaurant so that a person can relax for a while from the crazy bustle of the big city. At Ziferblat you can drink tea, coffee, and you can bring food and drinks with you. Here you can work, be creative, relax with friends, read a book, in general, do whatever your heart desires with the exception of drinking alcohol and smoking (you can smoke on the street).
Now in Moscow, and in other cities, there are a huge number of anti-cafes, free spaces, cafe-clubs and other entertainment clubs with per-minute payment. Anticafes are popular mainly among young people. They usually spend 2-3 hours in an anti-cafe, and if they play games, they stay for up to 5 hours. This is a very interesting format of an entertainment venue, very convenient for gathering large groups who want to have fun. I would like to note that over the past year, anti-cafes in the capital have not decreased, but, on the contrary, increased. Each of them strives to stand out somehow. Some are positioning themselves as centers for board games, others are making concessions on the menu, allowing alcohol, and others are increasing the number of their branches. In general, anti-cafes have now firmly occupied their niche in the cultural life of Moscow.
As for prices, there is no particularly strong variation. The cost of a minute ranges from 1 to 3.99 rubles, but, nevertheless, this was the determining criterion when compiling the anti-cafe rating.
Anticafe Butterflies is a modern, comfortable space for work, as well as a startup community that unites creative people. The anti-cafe concept is based on modern art, expressed in the atmosphere, people and interior. The main feature of the format is the payment method - they pay only for time. Tea and coffee are served free of charge in the anti-cafe.
Anticafe Butterflies is a space that inspires creativity and contemplation:
- A place where modern youth, united by the idea of contemporary art, can
work, relax and study, exchange ideas, experiences and have fun.
- A place where people of art can exhibit their works and invite them to personal
exhibitions to their audience.
- A place where anyone can become part of the creative community, get acquainted with
works of contemporary art, work in a creative atmosphere.
- A place where educational master classes in the field of contemporary art are held.
- A place that can easily be transformed from a work space into an area for
themed weekend parties.
Anticafe Butterflies is a creative atmosphere where all conditions are created for the development of people. The owners of the anti-cafe believe in the power of change, so the Butterfly anti-cafe does not stand still and encourages all its friends to change with it! For this purpose, Butterfly anti-cafe organizes trainings, seminars, and lectures on a variety of topics: from presentation skills to rules of communication with the opposite sex. Butterfly Anticafe regularly conducts professionally oriented master classes in photography, video shooting and other disciplines. Anticafe Butterfly is open to any new experience and this pushes it forward.
The philosophy of Butterfly anti-cafe: “It’s time to change.” We encourage people to change, because we ourselves are different. We have changed the approach to public institutions, therefore: - we do not smoke or drink, because the Butterfly anti-cafe is a socially oriented project; - we have affordable prices so that everyone can afford an anti-cafe; - Our guests get tea, coffee and desserts for free, but that’s not why people come to the anti-cafe.
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lane Petrovsky, 5, building 1Club and anti-cafe “Green Door” 18+
Works around the clock. There is a German conversation club and an opera club - a series of lectures dedicated to great productions. On Fridays there are music jams.
lane Milyutinsky, 19/4, building 1Anticafe Wooden Door
It's more of an anti-pub - Wooden Door is located in the bar area. In addition, this is a foreign language club where you can easily improve your knowledge of English, which is the language in which communication takes place. Payment is standard, as everywhere else: 2 rubles/min in the first two hours, subsequent ones - 1 rubles/min.
Milyutinsky lane, 6 (entrance to the arch)Time Club "Nest" (Time Club "Nest") 0+
They were the first in Moscow to work around the clock. The largest toy library in the city. There is a club card that can be used in all time clubs in the network.
lane Lyalin, 8, building 2Anticafe Local Time
Club "WhatWhereWhen", culinary and musical evenings, qigong classes - at Local Time you will certainly find friends with similar interests.
st. Novoryazanskaya, 29, building 4Anticafe "12 yards" 0+
The 12 Yards features musical instruments, a large movie screen, ping pong and bright, cozy sofas.
st. Brothers Fonchenko, 10, building 1Everyone can participate in Guitar Thursdays. And this anti-cafe, which belongs to a network of Moscow time clubs, has a shower! And all this is three minutes from the Kremlin.
Georgievsky lane, 1, building 3Anticafe Bizone (“Bison”) 0+
Board and computer games, virtual reality and a rich program of events - the new anti-cafe Bizone offers two levels of pleasure for your secluded relaxation or joyful meetings with family, friends, and colleagues.
In 2011, the first establishment opened in Moscow where visitors were charged not for what they ate and drank, but for the time spent. At the same time, tea, coffee and simple sweets are provided to the guest free of charge, and he can bring any other food with him. With this seemingly strange business model, pay-per-time cafes are multiplying and appearing in other cities.
The idea of such a cafe was first implemented in 2010 by Ivan Mitin. With friends, he opened an establishment called “Tree House”, where everyone could drink tea and sit all day with a book, and when leaving, they left as much money as they wanted. The following year, it was decided to put the project on track as a business. This is how “” appeared. In less than a year, Tsiferblat has turned into a chain of several cafes in major cities of Russia and Ukraine.
During the same period, several more cafes with payment by time were born in the capital: “”, “Local Time”, “TimeTerria”, etc., and it was with the light hand of “Butterflies” that this format received the name “anti-cafe”.
Upon entering the anti-cafe, the guest receives a red-green magnetic card on which the time of entry is recorded. Additional purchases are also recorded on this card, and the same card, with the red or green side facing up, serves as a beacon for other visitors to the cafe - whether the person is ready for new acquaintances. When leaving, the cashier takes the card, records the time and unlocks the turnstile for the exit. In “Butterflies” and “Tsiferblat” the price per minute of stay is 2 rubles.
What to do in an anti-cafe? You won't be able to eat here - there is, one might say, no kitchen. Maximum - sandwich and ice cream. By the way, this is precisely what allows an establishment to register not as a catering service, but under the “organization of events” class, thereby avoiding a lot of expenses and tedious checks by control and approval bodies. But in such establishments you can drink tea, coffee, and you can bring food with you. It’s convenient to work here, do creative work, play board and computer games with friends, hold negotiations, read books, watch films at specially organized screenings, attend lectures and master classes - in general, do whatever your heart desires, with the exception of drinking alcohol and smoking (you can smoke outside).
The cafe space can be easily transformed to suit the needs of each specific day. There is a projector, computer, MFP, flipchart, stationery, game console, board games, books and, of course, wireless Internet.
Different people come to the anti-cafe - some work here, others play Mafia with friends in the evening - but the core of the audience consists of students. They usually have nowhere to gather: an ordinary cafe is expensive, their parents are at home, and in Russia, including Moscow, there are no suitable public places. Only recently did Gorky Park receive a human appearance and normal infrastructure, but what is one park for the vast city of Moscow?! And in other cities there is not even one such park.
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