How do we all used to be in cafes, bars andrestaurants, where you can meet with friends, talk and have a bite to eat! It's a pity that you can not come there all day. After all, then you will need to constantly order food or drinks, otherwise the administration at the best will express bewilderment, and at worst - will ask you to leave.
And what about entertainment? Music, TV shows or Wi-Fi for those who came with their laptop. But! Because of the conversations of the other visitors, one can not work in silence or simply retire, for example, reading books. Here it is not accepted, these establishments have other purposes. Newfangled anti-smoking allowed a new look at the organization of leisure in catering establishments.
What is anti-cafe? This is a completely new format for Russia for cultural recreation and civilized entertainment. In them, everyone can pleasantly spend an unlimited amount of time for gratuitous entertainment, games, work, communication, watching movies and special events such as competitions and master classes.
You do not have to come with the company, herethere are many friends by interests. Order a complex dinner is also not accepted: in anti-smoking there are no waiters, cooks, or even a full-fledged kitchen. But there is coffee, tea, soft drinks, sweets and pastries, and for free. The only taboo is alcohol, you can not bring it with you. But you can do everything else that will satisfy an easy hunger.
What is anti-cafe? In fact, it's an analogue of time-cafes or time-clubs. The prefix "anti" speaks for itself: normal rules do not apply here. The idea of the existence of such institutions belongs to Ivan Mitin, a Russian entrepreneur who opened in 2010 the territory of free space "House on a tree."
At first, visitors were left in payment for hisvisiting as much money as you wanted, getting in return tea, coffee, biscuits and the opportunity to have a good time. Later, Mitin proposed a per-minute billing of services. He realized this concept in a new project "Dial" - a fashionable time cafe that opened in 2011. Since 2012, there is a common term for all such institutions "anti-cafe".
What is anti-cafe? Reviews visitors describe it as a placeincreased comfort: everything inside at home. One large hall or several target rooms with comfortable sofas and pillows, armchairs, tables. Even you can take a nap in a hammock. Those who are interested in the detailed situation inside a specific anti-penalty, photo its interior can be found in our article found or on the pages of fashion magazines.
The cost of the visit includes the use of gamingprefixes, board games, cinema, library, Wi-Fi with laptop on demand. There is also a zone for conducting trainings or business negotiations with magnetic-marker plaques for presentations. Naturally, this is not all. Anticafes are so diverse that any visitor can choose their own suitable occupation. For example, you can sing in karaoke or watch a master class on drawing wine.
What is anti-cafe? This institution, where only the time spent in it is paid, which is calculated in minutes. The cost of one does not exceed 3 rubles in the first hour and half of this amount - in all subsequent.
With all the variety of organizational nuances,the principle of billing remains unchanged. The administrator marks the time of the visitor's appearance in the anti-penalty and issues the hours that allow him to track the time of his stay in the "territory of freedom". Sometimes cards are used instead of them, counting can be carried out automatically, with the help of security cameras. In any case, an account is paid at the output, in which the amount for the number of minutes spent in the institution is indicated.
Of course, the largest number of anti-Moscow. The rating positions were achieved by many of them, but five most popular institutions among the townspeople were formally identified. It's "Butterflies" on the 5th Monetchikovsky Lane, in the former house of the architect Kiselev. Here you can work and sit back, but you can not smoke and drink alcohol.
What is anti-smoking? You can feel it by visitingthe famous "Dial" (on the Pokrovka) with all sorts of fun and alarms in the spirit of retro, received in his hands for time control. Further Timeterria Lipeople (lane 2-nd Schemilovsky) - all provided and included, even author's lemonade, plus business lectures and Speed Dating for meeting lonely hearts.
Another popular anti-cafe is Local Time, for 1rubles per minute. There is a lot of communication and games (Novoryazanskaya Street, next to the A. Zverev Center for Contemporary Art). And, finally, Work shop loft, near the monument of the electric plant (Elektrozavodskaya street). It provides for rent a woodworking workshop, a kiln for firing ceramics and a potter's wheel. Still here you can learn to draw from nature and try a hatha yoga session.
Today, such free spacesare organized throughout the territory of Russia and operate in more than 200 large cities. Very popular anti-cafe SPb. What it is and where to find them, you can easily find out from any resident of St. Petersburg. By the way, they operate practically at every station of the St. Petersburg metro.
Since last year, the reala wave of new discoveries: genre, family, children's (the entrance with parents) and other institutions joined the anti-cataf. One of the favorite public are the TC "Now" and anti-fake FD (with hostel) on Nevsky Prospekt. Both establishments are specific, they allow in a quiet environment to observe the daily life of a city with a million inhabitants.
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