{"id":7076827,"date":"2026-10-05T11:37:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T11:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7076827"},"modified":"2026-10-05T11:37:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T11:37:34","slug":"billie-billiards-club-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7076827","title":{"rendered":"Billie Billiards Club – Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A billiard club, a cocktail bar, and a menu of sexy junk food inside a 19th-century building. Four rooms, each with its own character. This is not your grandfather\u2019s pool hall.<\/p>\n

There is a particular type of new venue that arrives not with a press release but with a mood. The kind that spreads person to person, neighbourhood to neighbourhood, until it simply becomes the place you go.\u00a0Billie<\/a><\/strong>, tucked on Neglinnaya Street a stone\u2019s throw from Trubnaya metro, is exactly that kind of place.<\/p>\n

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The founders are Oleg Tsoy, Pasha Nitsa, and Misha Pugachev, the same trio behind the well-regarded Moscow restaurant\u00a0Soma<\/a><\/strong>. They brought in designer Georgy Aygunyan <\/a>to shape the space, and chef Artem Chudnenko<\/a> to run the kitchen. The result is a project that carries the ambition you\u2019d expect from people who have already built one room that Moscow talks about, and applies it somewhere nobody had thought to look.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe love billiards,\u201d Oleg Tsoy explains, \u201cbut the idea was a little more cunning than that. We\u2019re certain that people today need new formats for leisure. Places where it\u2019s not just a single product or service that matters, but the overall mood and concept. How the guest feels inside. People are no longer just looking for somewhere to go. They\u2019re looking for a community where they feel comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the surface, it is a billiard club. Four rooms with tables for American pool and Russian billiards, the game you\u2019d expect. But the moment you step inside, the premise of the traditional pool hall dissolves entirely. The space reads like a minimalist fever dream: pale tones, architectural lighting, soft geometry, and a stillness that feels closer to a gallery than a sports club. The game itself, as Oleg puts it, became \u201cnot the goal, but the instrument\u201d through which something new was made possible.<\/p>\n

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The interior is the work of Moscow-based designer\u00a0Georgy Aygunyan<\/a><\/strong>. The building itself handed him an extraordinary starting point: a 19th-century structure that once formed part of the estate of the Pegov family, its historical walls carrying the weight of another era entirely. Aygunyan chose not to erase that history but to set it in conversation with something radically contemporary<\/p>\n

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\u201cHistorical architectural elements from the past combine with a minimalist and futuristic interior,\u201d he explains, \u201ccreating a unique dialogue between eras.\u201d Four rooms, each with its own character, are united by a shared philosophy: minimalism, futurism, and what Aygunyan calls \u201cplayfulness.\u201d The restraint is the statement. Every surface, every shadow, every sightline feels considered. This is the kind of interior that makes you want to stay longer than you planned.<\/p>\n

The main hall:\u00a0hypnagogia in detail<\/em><\/p>\n

The largest of the four rooms holds three tables and is what Aygunyan calls \u201chypnagogia in detail.\u201d The walls are finished in the colour of corrugated cardboard, and portals are cut into them, functioning as frames for art. \u201cThese elements transport guests into a borderline state between sleep and wakefulness,\u201d he says. \u201cThree geometric forms gradually dissolve, creating a sense of movement and transformation, like a dream in hypnagogia. This is a room where every game of billiards becomes a journey into a world where reality and fantasy intertwine.\u201d It is, in short, the room that convinces you this place is different before you\u2019ve even picked up a cue.<\/p>\n

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The gastro room:\u00a0colour belongs to the food<\/em><\/p>\n

The second room exists as a backdrop rather than a statement. Monochrome grey throughout, it places the emphasis squarely on what arrives at the table. Food and drinks become the only bearers of colour in the space, which is either an extremely clever piece of design thinking or an extraordinarily confident one. Possibly both. Chef Artem Chudnenko\u2019s menu reads as \u201csexy junk food\u201d and means it: the kind of cooking that knows exactly what it is and does it very well. A smash burger that regulars return for specifically. Cocktails that are taken seriously. A room designed so that your attention goes nowhere except to the people across from you and whatever is in front of you.<\/p>\n

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The pool room:\u00a0a three-legged thing<\/em><\/p>\n

The third room centres on a single pool table with an unusual three-legged base, a deliberate departure from the standard that signals Billie\u2019s broader attitude to the familiar. Nothing here arrives exactly as expected. The non-standard approach to a classic game is the point: billiards as object, as conversation starter, as something worth looking at even when nobody is playing.<\/p>\n

The Russian billiards room:\u00a0where time slows down<\/em><\/p>\n

The fourth room is given over to Russian billiards and built in wood, a material Aygunyan describes as a reference to \u201cthe origins of billiards, while remaining within the framework of contemporary minimalism.\u201d Wooden wall panels and a solid oak table with a hanging lamp create an atmosphere that is warmer and more deliberately nostalgic than the other three rooms. \u201cThis is a place for those who value tradition,\u201d he says, \u201cand want to enjoy the game in an atmosphere where time seems to stop.\u201d It is the room that will hold you longest.<\/p>\n

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The crowd at Billie skews young, design-literate, and well-dressed. People who know the difference between a well-made Negroni and a gun-tap pour, and who understand that how you spend an evening says something about you. On weekends, a professional coach is available for those who actually want to improve their game. The rest are there for the ritual: the slow arc of the shot, the sound of the break, the conversation that happens in between.<\/p>\n

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Billie sits in natural relationship with Soma, the founders\u2019 restaurant a short distance away. \u201cPeople can start their evening in one space and continue it in another, changing the rhythm and the mood,\u201d Oleg explains. \u201cSoma is about gastronomy, dinners, the atmosphere of relaxed conversation. Billie is about dynamism, the game, and junk food. It\u2019s a natural story, because both projects are united by the same philosophy: style, emotion, attention to detail, and atmosphere.\u201d Two rooms, one city, one way of thinking about what a night out should feel like.<\/p>\n

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Moscow has no shortage of billiard clubs. The city has a long, serious relationship with the game. But places that understand billiards as atmosphere, as a vehicle for an evening rather than just a competition, are considerably rarer. Billie has understood this from the start. \u201cThe restaurant industry in Moscow has become too predictable,\u201d Oleg says, \u201cwith many concepts resembling one another. We offer an old-new view of leisure.\u201d Aygunyan\u2019s dialogue between centuries, between the Pegov family\u2019s 19th-century walls and something that looks like nothing else in the city, is not incidental to that ambition. It is the argument, made in material form.<\/p>\n

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The address alone is compelling. Neglinnaya Street sits at the intersection of old Moscow and the city\u2019s restless present. Tsvetnoy Bulvar is steps away, Trubnaya metro is a short walk, and the density of the centre presses in from all sides. The kind of location that already has energy before you step through the door. \u2013 Bill Tikos<\/em><\/p>\n

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Address: Billie<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 Neglinnaya Street, 29\u04411, Moscow<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n