The Ultimate UKRAINIAN FOOD & CRAFT BEER TOUR!! Kyiv, Ukraine
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👩 MARGARITA: https://www.instagram.com/margo_poloua/
🍺 RAMEZ: https://www.instagram.com/punkraft.bar
🥟 ANNA: https://www.instagram.com/kanapa.kyiv
🍻 MARIA: https://www.instagram.com/drunkenmonkeybarkyiv
My adventures in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, continued with me diving even further into its food and beer culture. Join me as I go on the ultimate Ukrainian food and craft beer tour of Kyiv, Ukraine!
My afternoon kicked off on my way to an underground pub called Punkraft with Margarita, from Tours by Locals.
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Inside, I met Ramez, who told me they have 24 types of beer on tap, most of which are Ukrainian.
I went with the Hathor Milk Stout before heading into the kitchen, where they were grilling a ribeye steak with nothing added on it.
I enjoyed a raisin-y Veligden IPA with my steak. The steak was perfect! It was local, juicy, and had a nice char on the outside.
My next dish was Vorschmack, a popular Jewish dish that includes butter, pickled onions, cream cheese, apple, herring, and mayonnaise. You mix them all in a bowl yourself and eat it on toasted bread.
I loved the briny herring, sweet apple, and creamy mayo! I paired it with a beer that contained salt and coriander. It cut the creaminess well.
Next were vareniki, which are Ukrainian dumplings. They contain cherries and pair well with a Tonka Imperial Stout and sour cream. These vareniki were red because the dough was mixed with beet juice.
The vareniki were sweet and juicy, and the sour cream wasn’t too sour. It was my favorite dish! The Tonka Imperial Stout was chocolatey, like a melted brownie!
Next, Margarita and I walked through the lower town to our next stop, Kanapa, a restaurant located inside a large, 19th-century home.
Anna showed me how to make two types of vareniki: potato and mushroom! I even tried to make some myself!
At our table, we had homemade cordials, with is made of vodka, fruit, and berries. We also had red borscht, lard, black vareniki with bacon filling, pheasant pate, gelatin rabbit, and baked eggplant!
The borscht contained beef, pork, plums, beets, and sour cream. It came with baked fat and raw fat. The first cordials was bitter!
The borscht had so many flavors and was perfectly spiced. It was hearty, oily, and tasty! I enjoyed the raw, gelatinous lard and the baked lard with gooseberry.
The berry cordial was amazing, as was the baked eggplant with red peppers. It was sweet and moist and came with a crispy potato chip.
The rabbit meat in gelatin was an incredible combination with mustard. I followed that with a gingery cordial and the black vareniki with herring caviar, dill, and sour cream. They’re also stuffed with herring!
The pheasant pate was incredible on bread. It was incredibly creamy! Then, they made an amazing blackthorn sorbet with liquid nitrogen at our table!
We also had a chocolate ball containing pork fat and the most popular dessert in the city, Kyiv cake, which is crunchy and has many layers like baklava.
The sorbet was sour and healthy-tasting, and the chocolate ball was so good! Meanwhile, the Kyiv cake was crumbly and contained cognac! The final cordial contained apple and hazelnut.
They gave me a gift before I left, and we headed down to the Drunken Monkey Bar, where I met Maria.
They have over 20 beers on tap. I started with a light and crisp Indian Pale Lager and some cheese balls, followed by a brown Imperial ale, a sour fruited gose, and their most popular beer, the Drunken Monkey IPA.
Then, I had an Imperial stout and some amazing pate and marmalade on toast. Their Imperial pumpkin ale reminded me of Oktoberfest. They even gave me 4 beers for the road!
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21件のコメント
Slava Ukraine
David so what happens now that Russia invaded Ukraine to all those wonderful restaurants. Omg it's hard to believe they were destroyed ☹
I hope you did not lose friends there.
Your Ukrainian guide looks soo much like the English actress Emily Watson.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Watson
I hope this place is not destroyed by the russian invasion….very very nice place
Speaking of octoberfest, are you going to Germany in october? 😉
This is clearly a country of farmers–you can see why Russia thinks of the country as a food basket…they know how to raise food and cook it…they are blessed…dts.usa
Do you ever watch the faces of the tour guides when you are in a restaurant with them? This one even said "American'…you drank their vodkas as shots and stuffed rabbit into your mouth…you were much more at home in the pub at the beginning–that is where you belong…I I am embarrassed for you…dts/usa
You ended at the Drunken Monkey–that is apropos…they read you well…dts/usa
If the Russians decide that they wish to beat the Americans–all they need to do is just send over unending Vodka and Beer–thankfully, they are also just as weak–lucky for the US…dts/usa
Tanks for nice vidéo but sorry for the war
David please be careful with eating high fat foods …we all like it but coming from a foodie family and watching them die of heart disease and diabetes I’ve changed my way of eating. Thanks for sharing!
The food, beer and everything looks so unique and the people are so welcoming nice video. Thankyou and safe travels.
Davidsbeenhere: I haven't watched this Ukraine series before and it is with a sad and heavy heart that I am watching it now. It's difficult to explain how emotional it is to see this without thinking of what has happened since. It's such a beautiful country with such rich history that most of it is destroyed now but hopefully not forgotten. I have to wonder what happened to all the people that David met there. I am just going to say that all the food and drink are what I sort of expected except for the lard in some of the dishes. And yes David, please watch your cholesterol since you said that it was "super high". I love the story about the cobblestone roadway. It makes a lot of sense. To anyone who has watched this series before, I would strongly suggest that you watch it again, bearing in mind what is happening now to such a beautiful country. Let's all pray that this conflict would come to an end and that the people who survived will find some kind of peace in their lives. 🕊️🙏🙏🙏🇹🇹🇨🇦
I feel alittle sad when I see this compared to now in Ukraine. This was one of my favourite series of yours. I loved the Ukraine series
Sad to see what’s happened to this beautiful city
God bless Ukraine <3 I am watching it in 2022, as the video started I burst into tears 🙁
great to see Ukranian food and culture!
Для когось "Андріївський Узвіз", а для когось "Андріївський підйом".
*Вас вітае Украіна. Киів*. 2024 рік*. ВЕСНА, Дякую за відео*.
*Дякуемо США за допомогу та підтримку УКРАІНИ*.
Sir thanks for sharing this video God bless you all ways and your family from Philippines