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: Know your beers: 3 of 5 brands picked in taste test I’ve certainly made my contribution to Ukraine’s increasing beer consumption.
2 days ago at 23:28 | Brian Bonner
Food Critic: Coffee shops with soul on Artema The enjoyment of coffee depends not only on the beans, but also the atmosphere of the cafe where it is drunk.
May 10 at 22:54 | James Marson
Food Critic: Traditional cheesecake for Easter Although you’re most likely to eat baked Easter cakes on Ukraine’s Easter, which comes on April 15 this year, the traditional Easter cake was made out of cottage cheese and required no baking.
Apr 12 at 21:24 | Katya Gorchinskaya
Food Critic: Coffee or tea? More Ukrainians say coffee If the world were divided into tea drinkers and coffee drinkers, historically Ukraine would have firmly fit into the tea group.
Apr 5 at 21:41 | Olga Rudenko
Food critic: Five sandwiches that will take hunger away Sandwiches are the new meals of the office world. And, although there is nothing particularly wrong with the good old bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich, or even occasional hot dogs and hamburgers, the world’s cooking tradition offers a universe of sandwiches that you might like instead.
Mar 8 at 21:31 | Olga Rudenko
Food Critic: Open, but not quite ready yet Foodtourist restaurant opened in the Arena City shopping complex in downtown Kyiv in January. Except it didn’t fully open. According to its staff, it is working “in test mode.”
Feb 17 at 00:40 | James Marson
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