In Ukraine thick pancakes are traditionally served for breakfast. These are small puffy pancakes fried from both sides on the pan. They can be of different kinds: sweet, salted, with or without filling. Sweet thick pancakes with raspberries or apples are the regular choice for breakfast. Along with many other Ukrainian dishes, pancakes are served with sour cream, sometimes also with honey, jam and different syrups.
Due to simple recipe, thick pancakes are the most popular and widespread breakfast in Ukraine. Moreover, they ensure satiation for a long period of time and provide organism with energy and necessary vitamins. This dish can be found both, at ordinary kitchens and in expensive restaurants' menus.
Ukrainian thick pancakes are somewhat similar to American pancakes, but they have more porous structure and fewer ingredients.
There are plenty of thick pancakes' recipes, with each housewife cooking them upon her own taste. For instance, in order to make the dish sweeter some add banana (instead of sugar) to dough. There are also Lenten thick pancakes: eggs are excluded from the recipe, and dairy products are replaced with water.
The mazuricks are extremely juicy and crisp turkey cutlets with melted cheese. It is considered to be one of the popular festive dishes of authentic Ukrainian cuisine.
Kissel is an original drink that is highly valued for its perfect taste, excellent aroma and useful properties, since Kievan Rus times.
In Rus fragrant and tasty kissel was made from oats, wheat and other cereal crops. Now it is boiled mostly from fresh or dries berries and fruits, fruit-and-berry juices and syrups adding potato or corn starch, which makes it very thick.
The starch makes kissel very nourishing and caloric, and fruits and berries - very healthy and rich with vitamins.
Besides fruit ones, there are dairy and oat kissels, as well as kissels boiled from peas and vegetables.
It is popular Ukrainian home recipe. This appetizer is very nutritious and beneficial; however it can be served during fasting. The dish is very easy-to-cook and won’t take long to be made. It could be served as both appetizer and side dish.
Kvass is a popular Slavic drink known since the Kievan Rus times. Made from rye or barley malt, it is not only very tasty, but refreshing and helpful for metabolic processes' normalization. Besides that, kvass is traditionally summer drink that perfectly slakes thirst and increases efficiency.
In order to make real kvass, you need minimum ingredients and maximum patience, for it is a very long process. Kvass's main components are rye bread, water, yeast and sugar. Some also add various herbs, dried fruits and berries to kvass.
The solozhenick is a traditional Ukrainian dessert made of eggs and cream. There are different variants of solozhenick with varied stuffing from jam to poppy-seed. It is hardly could be called a pastry because it is cooked over heat. The apple solozhenick boasts both tender flavor and pleasant fragrance.
The hrechaniks with meat are soft, tender cutlets made with buckwheat and mince meat. So it can be served as a main course or a side dish. You can use any mince meat to your taste. The dish is usually served with either tomato or garlic sauce, and salad.
The art café Manufactura is located in Ivano-Frankivsk’s very center, not far from the main city square.
Facility’s menu is based on European cuisine. One of art café’s specialties is 20 kinds of Belgian waffles and a vast coffee list.
The Manufactura’s small cozy room can accommodate up to 40 guests.
The restaurant Familia is located in Kharkiv historical part, within a few steps from the metro station Arkhitektora Beketova.
Facility’s menu features European dishes, recreated after Kharkiv restaurants’ ancient recipes. There is a decent drinks’ offer.
The restaurant has three rooms: main (28 seats), gastronomic (6 seats) and banquet (40 seats),
The restaurant 5 Element is a part of the namesake sports and health improving club located on the picturesque Rybalsky Island. Facility's main distinctive feature is its pleasant and light atmosphere that facilitates recreation and socializing.
The restaurant features a wide choice of European, Mediterranean, Italian, Japanese and Ukrainian dishes
Situated on the Maidan Nezalezhnosti, at the beginning of the Kostelnaya Street, the restaurant Très Français (French for 'very French') embodies its name surprisingly precisely: exquisite interior, mores, spirit, traditions and little rituals typical for France.
On the first floor you will find the room 'Montmartre' with picturesque vinous decor a
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