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 penetrating rhymes will take your body shaking, meaning swinging. One can imagine himself far from Kyiv downtown, all the way to Kansas City, Chicago, or New York. Again Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Glen Miller are touching your soul. During breaks in performances you are back to home-like Kyiv, were the musicians are worth authentic artists from land of Mr. George Bush Jr., and famous jazz legends are watching the swinging up from the photos on the walls.

The allegorical “kitchen is full of improvisation” here is full with virtuosity and skillfulness. Chef is a real maestro, absolute cosmopolite who works in “fusion” style. Famous dishes from Europe, all of America, Africa, and Australia are all made by his skills. One dish tastes like a real regtime, another is a heady blues to taste, if you go for another one a desire to sing hard bop arises, and with the next you be careful - it is a jungle style. One is not simply eating the food, but is improvising together with musicians and virtuoso Chef. And this improvisation is fully under your control: in “Swing” you will be helped to incamate your veiled culinary fantasies. Just go ahead and allude to chef the idea, sing the melody of taste, come within the creative process. You will enjoy your masterpiece. There is one more mystery, or piquancy, in this restaurant: eat your dish longer, take your time and you will se how the food’s taste changes with the flow of different live music.

Inside “Swing” holds allure of the extravagant interior, which is like an elegant cocktail with blends of Middle Ages and modern times. Here vaulted ceilings, bricks, copper arches, and ice-smooth floor for reckless dancing is in perfect harmony with glass over old car under it. The car is covered with sand of time, but the music is alive. Come to “Swing” and live you’re the only life without regrets that it went by without improvisations.

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