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Seafood lovers have in the past had to suffer in the nation’s capital. Despite the fact that Ukraine borders two seas and can boast hundreds upon hundreds of kilometers of rivers, the people of the Steppe remain true to their traditional fare of meat and potatoes augmented with beets and mayonnaise.
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With the Lunar New Year set to begin on Jan. 29, it’s time to start thinking about where to get some red-colored dishes (symbolizing good luck), or something with lots of noodles in it (symbolizing long life), or traditional, sticky sweet rice flour balls to remind you that life can and should be so. Thankfully, Kyiv is not as completely homogeneous as it might seem.
Continue reading ‘Asian restaurants in which to fete the new year’
Bukovel, our winner in the Best Of search for Ukraine’s top ski hill, impresses in every way. In addition to having fast, modern lift equipment, rental facilities and restaurants, they actually print trail maps, too.
With the mercury plunging and the frost on the windows thickening, it’s safe to say winter has arrived. For many this means staying indoors away from the cold, but to the Best Of team it means getting out to enjoy the best the winter season has to offer, such as skiing.
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Wine tasting, anyone?
With the winter swiftly approaching and Kyiv getting less cozy day after day, even a weekend getaway to normally sunnier, warmer Crimea has less appeal than usual. The chilly winds sweeping the peninsula this time of the year are likely to prevent travelers from spending too much time outside – until they stop to consider the option of tasting Crimean wine deep inside the earth.
Continue reading ‘Winemakers’ reveal their secrets deep below Inkerman’
Word gets around quickly when places beloved by ex-pats close. It gets around even quicker when they reopen.
It wasn’t long ago that the owners of Kyiv’s downtown Indian restaurant, Himalaya, announced they’d be closed for renovations. That was early December. I had figured, as with other restaurants in the city, that the renovations would last anywhere from six months to forever. Restaurants in this city have a habit of enduring renovations to match the long, insufferable Ukrainian winter.
Continue reading ‘Himalaya reopens; Pleasure Cafe starts up’
Eric Aigner, that local restaurateur with a face as unforgettable as his establishments, has certainly done a bit of traveling in his life, and his stints as a tourist seem to have made him into one cheeky businessman.
Mykola Yaroshenko works in Lukyanovskaya prison. He has recently inherited $4.5 million form “South African diamond magnate†whose name is Solomon Howard. Lucky legatee is going to spend the whole sum for prison. He plans turning the prison in a museum. The most interesting exhibits will be Timoshenko’s and Kolesnikov’s wards.
It’s American football playoff time. Nerves are frayed from opening kick-off to final whistle. Hoorahs and curses are shouted at TV screens in bars and in otherwise quiet, pastoral American homes. Beers are consumed – and so are chicken wings.
Continue reading ‘Who we calling chicken? Only Kyiv’s best wings!’
Life is full of improvisation… We take it as a motto off “Swing” restaurant with its enticing live, real music to swing yourself up to the end without any hint of boredom. No “mass” culture, no “phonograph” music is heard here. Only artistic and talented trumpeters, drummers, pianists, and saxophone players.
The problem of finding the best cheeseburger in the city can be reduced to a matter of geography and culture, a problem best summed up by two sound bites captured from one night in our search.
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