Must-see restaurants in Kharkiv

  • Plasticine Crow

    Kharkiv

    If you've been to Lviv, this is one of those – ‘emotional restaurants’ – again. Hungry? Get some theatre for starters. To come in, you'll first have to…

  • Stargorod

    Kharkiv

    Rivers of beer cut through mountains of meat to the sound of um-pah-pah music in this Kharkivite version of a Czech pub. There is a microbrewery on the…

  • Shoti

    Kharkiv

    Don’t be fooled by the plain, though pleasant, interior of this place – here the focus is firmly on well-crafted food from Ukraine and the Caucasus with a…

  • The Varenik

    Kharkiv

    Varenyky (triangular-shaped dumplings) are the chubby Zeus of the Ukrainian culinary pantheon. Here is the place not only to gorge on them, experimenting…

  • Dedushka s Tatuirovkoy Drakona

    Kharkiv

    With an inviting terrace that lures a smart youngish crowd on hot summer evenings, the Grandad with Dragon Tattoo (a play on words from Stieg Larsson's…

  • Puzata Khata

    Kharkiv

    This city-centre branch of Ukraine's most celebrated fast-food chain is incongruously styled as a warren of thatched cottages bedecked in bucolic knick…