Entertainment in Lviv
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Kult
This basement venue next to the Philharmonia reverberates with live Ukrainian rock music every night of the week.
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Philharmonia
Be wooed by the sweet strains of the Philharmonia.
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Picasso
Lviv’s most atmospheric club, inside a former theatre, has consistently good DJs and a consistently festive crowd paying proper homage to them.
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Lyalka
This is where the arty, alternative crowd that hangs out at Dzyha goes to party. The slate alternates between disco, theme nights (Gothic is common) and live music.
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Korzo Pub
Bars are thin on the ground in Lviv and this is the closest the city has to an Irish pub. There’s a huge menu of pub food, a worldly beer list and smart-looking cherry-wood walls.
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Kabinet Café
Despite the nationalist symbols plastered on the walls, there’s still a brown wrapping-paper, Soviet atmosphere. You can curl up with a book (there’s a small library) in a cosy antique throne, or have a game of billiards.
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Italyansky Dvorik
Even if you decide to skip the Lviv History Museum, it’s worth popping in for a coffee in its aptly named inner courtyard. You usually have to pay a cover charge, which in principle is an outrage, but it is only 50 kopecks (10¢).
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Zoloti Dukat
The mirrored ceiling in this faux bat-cave creates all sorts of optical illusions – this place would be a real hit in Amsterdam. No cannabis here, just what may be Lviv’s best (and best-smelling) coffee in a mercifully smoke-free environment.
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Pid Synoyu Plyashkoyu
With its nostalgia for the Polish-Austrian past and its dark interior, this tiny café at the back of a courtyard has a cosy, secretive atmosphere. It serves sandwiches and fondues, as well as wine and coffee with pepper. It’s hard to find; look for the blue bottle.
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Solomiya Krushelnytska Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet
For an evening of high culture, and to enjoy the ornate building, take in a performance at the Solomiya Krushelnytska Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet. For some local colour catch a performance of Zaporozhets za Dunae, which runs once or twice a month. The theatre shuts down for most of July and August.
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Robert Doms Beer House
This fantastic, utterly unique beer hall is located three stories underground in a centuries-old beer-storage vault once used by the neighbouring Lvivske brewery. It’s named after the brewery’s founder and features fresh Lvivske served in litre steins (12uah), plus German food and nightly live music in one of the vault’s four chambers. Another chamber has a mammoth TV screen for sports viewing.
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Dzyha
This café-cum-art gallery in the shadow of the Dominican Cathedral has a relaxed vibe. It’s particularly popular with bohemian, alternative types, but seems to attract pretty much everyone, really. If it’s full there are other attractive options for a nibble or a cuppa joe nearby on postcard-worthy vul Virmenska. If you just can’t get enough, Dzyha has also been writing its vibe large at the ethnic music festival Pidkamin (pidkamin.ridne.net), south of Pochayiv.
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