Food Critic: Help me, I’m your customer

As a single person who isn’t good at cooking and who has an empty refrigerator on most days, I am frequently at restaurants or cafes and sometimes at groceries around Kyiv.

While the city’s offerings have improved greatly since the first time I was in Kyiv 16 years ago, service is still stuck in the slow lane in too many places.
Jan 19 at 23:46 | Brian Bonner

Food Critic: Nikolai’s Pie House knows its dough Looking at the simple, yet cozy interiors at Nikolai’s Pie House, I wondered if the owners were from Moscow or Odessa. Somehow Kyiv restaurateurs think that home-style wood flooring, exposed brick walls and black menu boards are not cool enough in comparison with glowing chandeliers and velvet-draped heavy furniture.
Nov 24, 2011 at 21:06 | Antonina Radzihovska
Food Critic: Sensational Latin cuisine and late night dancing in Buena Vista I looked hard around this Latino house to find a photo of Che Guevara, but instead spotted a nice Soviet fridge Donbas lurking in the corner.
Nov 10, 2011 at 22:46 | Yuliya Popova
Food Critic: Tasty Soviet nostalgia at Spotykach restaurant My childhood memories of Soviet cuisine center on gray mashed potatoes, a disgusting beetroot salad and boiled eggs stuffed with mayonnaise. Just thinking about this food kills even the strongest of appetites.
Oct 20, 2011 at 23:21 | Kateryna Panova
Food Critic: Fun Dragee lures young, unpretentious clients with Italian menu, amazing music Restaurant Dragee is too cool for its own good: It doesn’t have a dress code.
Oct 7, 2011 at 01:50 | Yuliya Popova
Food Critic: Vietnamese Imperatur gets a pass If the presumptions of my two Ukrainian friends are anything to go by, Vietnamese food still has a way to go to endear itself to most locals.
Sep 9, 2011 at 00:08 | Will Fitzgibbon
Food Critic: Pagan recipes alive in Kult Ra on St. Andrew’s ancient descent Sometimes, a restaurant begs to be visited again and again. Kyiv’s Kult Ra, a Trypillian-themed eatery, is just such a place.
Jul 28, 2011 at 22:31 | Natalia A. Feduschak
Food Critic: Discovering restaurant Prague after two decades in oblivion Don’t go back to the places where you felt happy, the old saying goes. Ignoring the well-known maxim, I revisited Prague Restaurant, home to some of the most vivid moments of my childhood, which reopened in April after nearly two decades of abandonment.
Jun 23, 2011 at 21:49 | Vlad Lavrov
Food Critic: It's hard to beat Georgian-style shashlyk and nature KANIV, Ukraine – The Kyiv Post caught up with a four-person Georgian cooking team over the weekend to learn how to make shashlyk, the beloved kebab savored year-round throughout Eurasia, especially during summer picnics.
Jun 9, 2011 at 23:29 | Mark Rachkevych
Food Critic: Fine dining in French cafe Gorchitsa Starters, just like desserts, are made to share. We often order a couple of tantalizing appetizers and then start passing the plates around.
May 20, 2011 at 00:38 | Yuliya Popova
Food Critic: Podil’s piano cafe worth trip for music, food Podil’s Piano Café Music Bar is a non-smoker’s dream. Not only is the food deliciously tasty in this cozy eatery, but it is one of the few places in Ukraine, it seems, that one can spend literally hours and breathe free. As a non-smoker who has struggled to find places where one can enjoy dinner not engulfed into other people’s cigarette smoke, that is a lot to write home about.
May 13, 2011 at 00:20 | Natalia A. Feduschak