4a Malishko Street
Hours: noon till the last client
Cuisine: Ukranian

Unique Ukrainian restaurant on the left bank of the Dnipro River. The interior has a fun, rustic look. The walls look like those of a Ukrainian hut. There are life-sized wax statues of the heroes of Nikolay Gogol's tales. (He was a Ukrainian and Russian writer of the 19th Century.) The cooks use tried-and-true old recipes to cook the dishes. One savory dish is goose surrounded by apples. Another is duck in a strawberry sauce. You will be intrigued by the delicacies that fall under the heading "rulka," or "land and sea".

There is a rich choice of fish, with one of the specialties being rolled beluga filled with soodak. In the afternoon, customers will find the famed dish shashlik, or barbecue of sturgeon. In the evening, live music makes the delicious food go down even easier.

34 St. Andrew's Street
Hours: 11am-11pm Cuisine: Ukranian, Europian

This restaurant, named for a famous Ukrainian novel and movie, is situated along the most picturesque street in Kiev - St. Andrew's. Walking down the street, you will feel like visiting a place that looks like the setting of the novel. When you walk in, you'll feel like you've gone back in time 100 years. Everything around you is the same as it was in the early 19th Century, starting with the furniture and a fireplace.

Each of the restaurant's three rooms gives you a warm, homey feeling. The biggest room has separate cabins connecting with it. There is an intimate room that looks like a hunter's cabin. The fireplace is in the third room. The rooms have old photos and posters, traditional porcelain elephants on the shelves, silver spoons and forks and crystal glasses on the sideboards. To quicken your pulse, you will find live music and girls dancing the cancan. The cuisine is the kind of Slavic fare that was served in old Kiev. You will enjoy the quality and the size of the dishes. And the waiters are quick and helpful.

Naberezhno-Kreschtikskaya strees, Spasskiy prichal
Hours: 12pm - 12am
Cuisine:Ukranian, Europian

This is a floating miracle of Dnipro, a real gift for those who values everything real and distinctive. You may get to it's deck from the water - what normally the owners of the boats do and also from the land coming over the shortest bridge in the history of Kiev Ruse. Those who finally got here are given a choice as if it was in a folk story: if you turn right you will find yourself in the mysterious atmosphere, which is warmed by the old decorated stove and good wine from the "Hutorok's" collection. If you turn left you will get to a spacious peasant's house with the huge brazier near the entrance. The wonderful smell of the dishes which are cooked on it by the local cooks will double your appetite.

The menu, this cult book of "Hutorok" can be read every day and you will always find something new even tastier than you tried before. Menu is updated every several months, but you will always find the chicken salad "Hutorok" and the herring with vegetables, Ukrainian borsch and the hunter's soup with chicken and fish, home sausage, shashlik (barbeque) of the beef and fish, the pancakes with red and black caviar.

42/1 Yanvarskogo Vosstaniya street
Hours: 11am - 2am
Cuisine: Ukranian

In this remarkable restaurant you can really eat and rest like a Tsar (king), to enjoy the real atmosphere of the comfort and warmness and to try a traditional Ukrainian cuisine. The interior is so bright and complex (it exactly imitates the atmosphere of the old Ukrainian peasant's yard of 18th century) that it can take you for hours only to examine it. The choice of dishes and wines is so rich and outstanding that it is really hard to prefer something. Come here with some good friends - than you will exchange dishes and glasses of wine - you won't stop till you try everything - this is for sure! Live music is every night for you.

42/1Yanvarskogo Vosstaniya Street
Hours: 11 a.m. - 2 a.m.
Cuisine: Europian

As the name of this restaurant suggests, its hallmark is a menu that has dishes from all of the former Soviet republics. To ensure that you get the freshest fish, the restaurant lets you pick them - live - from tanks. Your "catch" is then cooked for you right on the spot. You can eat the SSSR's special shashlik (barbecue) in the restaurant or you can take it with you for a picnic.

2 Rognedinskaya Street
Hours: 10 a.m. - midnight weekdays; 10 a.m. - 2 a.m. weekends Cuisine: Ukranian

Pervak is in the heart of Kiev's historical district. It offers good food and drinks in an atmosphere of times past. Each of the restaurant's rooms offers a different and interesting interior. The "Suburban" bar looks like a pharmacy. The "doctor" and two "nurses" will "cure" you with tasty drinks.

Other rooms for general dining are "The Upper Floor," "Kiev," "Bessarabka" and "Lipki." The rooms known as the "Library" and "Lvov" are for banquets - and if you dine there, you will have an unforgettable experience. Even the most demanding gourmets will enjoy the Ukrainian and European cuisine. A special dish is "Pervak" - a chop filled with cheese, butter and fish. The restaurant offers live music every night.