Kyiv Post’s Best of Kyiv 2010: Docker Pub
Freedom is the key concept of the Docker pubs – one located in the industrial part of town and another in the posh central shopping street called the Passage.
Both Dockers have easy atmosphere, fantastic music, great food and fine drinks to liberate regulars from their burdens and daily routine.
“Our goal is to make everyone feel free, absolutely free, at least for the time spent with us,” reads the pub’s mission statement on its website. “And any person, be he a soldier or diplomat, can feel that here.”
Indeed, at Docker’s you don’t need to wear a tie, high heels, designer clothes or other glam-party attire. You can grab a glass of ice-cold beer and dance on the bar counter or have a round of flaming sambucas with your friends while watching a live band. You can do whatever you want for as long as you don’t disturb other people.
The Dockers are very selective when it comes to music: they invite both famous and new Ukrainian and Russian rock bands.
Legendary Russian performers like Boris Grebenshchikov and his Aquarium band, Nike Borzov, Viacheslav Butusov’s U-Piter alongside Ukrainian Mad Heads XL, TIK and Antitela play their music for the Dockers’ visitors.
Whether you come alone for an after-work drink or with a bunch of friends for a big party, you’ll get supreme service, personal attention and a great selection of food.
The Docker’s cuisine reflects their motto – nothing fancy, only good stuff. Chicken wings with hot and mild sauces, baked potatoes stuffed with bacon and eggs, fried mozzarella and club sandwiches – all go well with cold beer.
The wine drinkers would enjoy salmon or beef Carpaccio, a cheese platter and selection of main dishes.
Happiness is an inner condition and people haven’t created a one-size-fits-all formula for it. But when spending time in good company with great music, food and drinks, here you get one step closer to it.
Docker Pub
25 Bohatyrska St.,
537-1340
Docker ABC
15/4 Khreshchatyk St.,
278-1717
www.docker.com.ua
