What is So Special About Ukrainian Food? All About Odessa Restaurants
In Odessa people are passionate about food - a fact represented by the number and variety of restaurants that mushroom everywhere, throughout the city of Odessa. Menus are a matter of pride to the restaurant owners here and they go to great lengths to ensure their chef is able to outdo the food produced by the nearest rival restaurant. The obsession with good food is extended to the welcome guests receive when they visit one of the innumerable restaurants that stay open until the last guest is ready to leave. Guests to the city of Odessa are well catered for in terms of culinary delights, with a wide range of International cuisine from Lebanese restaurants to traditional bistros serving traditional Ukrainian foods such as diruny, a kind of potato pancake, or varenyky, which is dumplings, often served together with cottage cheese.
Traditional varenyky is usually filled with potato, or sauerkraut, cottage or cheddar cheese, blueberries or cherries. To get the consistency correct these dumplings are cooked in water in a similar way to Italian ravioli. Then, of course there are cabbage rolls, or holubtsi which have a filling of rice and minced meat, after which they are placed into a pan and covered in a sauce and then baked - and, of course, the borsch which is a soup made from beet and particularly delicious. A particular favorite eatery with tourists is Kymanets where the service is first class and the ambience particularly friendly. Here you will be served with enormous bowls of borscht, varenyky and diruny plus a wide selection of chicken dishes.
If you fancy themed dining you could visit Kumanets which opens at 11am and stays open until midnight. Here you can taste the delights of sausage, fresh vegetables and those varenyky. Then there is Restaurant Khutorok which serves a range of grilled meats or Restaurant Ukrayinska Lasunka which caters to the customer who is entranced by all that is Disney! Apart from the décor, however, the food is excellent and authentic with waiters in national dress offering customers samogon [vodka that has been home brewed] at the beginning of each meal. Another particular favourite is the Ellisar, the Lebanese Restaurant which is situated on two levels with a balcony on the outside.
There is so much for you to do in Odessa and, if you decide to visit, you would be extremely welcome. Naturally, if you do decide to stay in Odessa for any length of time you are going to need somewhere to stay. If you value your comfort but prefer to retain your funds for eating out in some of the best Odessa restaurants, where better to stay than in our very own Odessa Apartments. You can rent apartments in Odessa within close proximity to Deribasovskaya Street where innumerable restaurants and character-filled cafes can be found. The decision to rent an apartment in Odessa as opposed to staying in a hotel gives you the opportunity to come and go as you please, staying in accommodation of the highest standard. Rent an apartment in Odessa and you will enjoy many luxurious amenities: high-speed internet, air-conditioning, satellite television with more than 600 channels in a range of languages and, to ease your foot-sore bodies after all that sightseeing, the sheer luxury of a Jacuzzi bath tub.
Moreover, if you continue to rent an apartment in Odessa for more than 7 days you will be entitled to the free use of telephone facilities. Our Odessa apartments are situated in the middle of Odessa, amongst all the activity. Here, you can rent an apartment in Odessa with the choice of 1, 2 or 3 bedrooms and, because all our apartments are fully serviced - and, when you rent an apartment in Odessa you will arrive to find the kitchen fully stocked with whatever you need - you will feel that you have never even left home. When you rent an apartment in Odessa we ensure we take care of all your needs and would like to think you would return to us again and again.
