The back story
Kyiv at the table: borshch, the Crimean Tatar kitchen and the grand dining rooms
New Ukrainian cooking at 100 Rokiv Tomu Vpered, Crimean Tatar dishes at Musafir, Comme Il Faut in the InterContinental and Marigold at the Fairmont: how Kyiv eats, and where to book.
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Image courtesy of © MarianaSenkiv · CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia CommonsKyiv’s kitchens have spent the last decade rediscovering their own country: the soups, dumplings, ferments and river fish of the Ukrainian table, cooked with a lighter hand. Alongside them are the Crimean Tatar restaurants, whose cooking is part of Ukraine’s table too, and the dining rooms of the grand hotels. Ukraine has no MICHELIN Guide, and we quote no ratings.
New Ukrainian cooking
100 Rokiv Tomu Vpered, whose name means “a hundred years ago, ahead”, is at 4 Volodymyrska Street, a few steps from the Golden Gate, open Monday to Friday from noon to 10pm (its site).
The Crimean Tatar table
Musafir cooks Crimean Tatar dishes at three Kyiv addresses: 57a Saksahanskoho Street, 3b Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Street and 1 Kostiantynivska Street in Podil (its site).
The hotel dining rooms
Comme Il Faut, at the InterContinental, specialises in French and Ukrainian cooking; Marigold, at the Fairmont, interweaves Ukrainian traditions and European customs, and pairs well with an evening concert in the Atrium (the hotels’ sites).
Eat early: restaurants close before the night curfew, and kitchens can stop during an air alert.
Our advice: order borshch with pampushky, the garlic buns, at least once, and leave room for varenyky.
Why it's on our list
- New Ukrainian cooking
- The Crimean Tatar table
- The hotel dining rooms
Location
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