Cuisine of Kiev for gourmets. Places for dinner - best restaurants

It’s not easy to choose the best one among hundreds of Kiev restaurants. Let’s start the story about most attractive gastronomic points of interest with the review of national cuisine restaurants. The attractive Varenichnaya #1 restaurant is decorated in the style of past centuries. The specialty of this place is vareniki (kind of dumplings). This popular national dish here is prepared in twenty variations. In addition to the favorite kind of dumplings, visitors can try interesting vegetable dishes and drinks.

A wide range of dishes of national cuisine are offered by O’Panas restaurant. Its present menu includes popular soups, meat dishes, and a variety of desserts. The Panska Vtiha restaurant will delight guests not only with a rich menu, but also with an interesting entertainment program. It has the unusual status of "folk restaurant" – that’s because regular entertainment program features the best dance and music groups from Kiev.

In Kiev, there are restaurants of different styles. The French Gorchitsa restaurant is popular among foreign visitors and locals. It has won recognition from loyal customers due to the excellent quality of food and reasonable prices. Fans of Italian cuisine are fond of another restaurant, Walter Rossit; there are many celebrities among its regular customers. Here you can try excellent risotto and pasta with seafood specialties and delicious desserts. Dishes are accompanied by popular Italian wines. Copyright www.orangesmile.com

For those who want to taste the real Italian pizza, we can recommend the Napule restaurant. Pizza is the brand dish here. There are dozens of varieties of pizza in menu. Advocates a vegetarian diet, fans of meat dishes, and seafood lovers – all of them would find something suitable. Napule would be great for families as it provides visitors with a special kids menu.

Marrakesh restaurant offers Moroccan cuisine to its guests. Space there is decorated with original oriental style; you can see gold-embroidered cushions and carpets everywhere. Such an atmosphere would be a nice addition to the meal and would distract from the everyday hustle and bustle. Among Asian restaurants it’s worth to mention Grill Asia; the basis of its menu consists of dishes cooked on the grill. Visitors strongly admire restaurant’s meat treats.

In Kyiv restaurants, it's worth trying popular traditional Ukrainian dishes. They serve delicious borsch with garlic donuts (pampushkas) as well as dumplings (varenyky), which is an indispensable dish on the menu of regional restaurants. Their diversity is simply amazing, dumplings are cooked with dozens of different fillings. There are very hearty varenyky with mushrooms, meat, and potatoes, while dessert options may include various fruits and berries. Before serving at the table, unsweetened dumplings are usually decorated with fried onions, sour cream or fresh herbs. For sweet dumplings, there is a special sugar syrup making the dish even sweeter.

Everyday dish for locals is jellied meat (kholodets), once it was cooked for the sole purpose of using up leftover meat. Today, the best meat products are selected for cooking kholodets. It is usually made from beef or pork legs. It is always customary to serve jellied meat with fresh bread and a special sauce from fresh horseradish or mustard.

Regional cuisine restaurants presented in Kyiv will certainly appeal to all fans of meat dishes. They prepare dozens of hearty meals of beef and pork, while poultry meat is much less frequently used in national cooking. A special menu item is local sausages, which can be tasted not only in local restaurants but also in local markets. Homemade sausages are most often prepared from pork. During the cooking, various spices are added to the mince to make the taste of sausages very rich.

Residents of Kiev are big fans of salo (cured slabs of fatback), which may serve as an independent product or a complement to various dishes. It can be stewed, fried, and even boiled. Salo is also used for the preparation of traditional garlic roll. Fans of unusual soups must try “Kulesh” in local restaurants. Many years ago, this original soup was cooked by the Zaporozhian Cossacks. Now its various recipes are popular in many regions of Ukraine. Compulsory components are cereals and salo, which are added to the soup just before serving. In addition to these components, various types of meat, seasonal vegetables and greens can also be used. Fans of desserts should pay special attention to sweet pastries in Kyiv restaurants.