Although we live 130 km from the capital and visit it 4-5 times a year, we haven't had a cultural vacation there for seven years, if not more, if we don't count last year's visit to the opera house. We always go there either on business or to the airport (from the airport). We move around the city by car, and what can you see that way? And finally we decided to walk there for almost four days. Moreover, our plans included visiting several museums and walking around the center as much as possible, both in familiar places and in those that everyone has heard of, but we still haven't been there.
I will tell and show where we have been, but the story will not be in chronological order, but according to my mood.
Today I remembered how on Monday we visited the Lviv Chocolate Workshop cafe.
Can you imagine what it smells like here?
As you can understand from the name, the company is located in Lviv. In other cities, such cafes operate on a franchise basis. Here in Chernihiv, we don’t have any yet.
Since our budget is limited and sometimes we want to indulge, we first looked at their website to decide on prices, our desires and possibilities. The website is easy to find by googling "Lviv chocolate workshop".
Oh, how many delicious things there are, and not just delicious things, but handmade ones!
I liked the warning: "Realignment: Lviv chocolate can be rubbed from your fingers and lips with hustinas and servettes, one recommendation - carefully and thoroughly."
Products can also be ordered online with delivery if the order amount is not less than 100 UAH.
They also hold master classes where adults and children can learn how to make candies in an hour and a half. This requires prior registration and at least five participants.
There are three such establishments in Kyiv, we went to the one on Gorky (Antonovich) Street, 45.
The first room we enter is a shop, behind it there are three small cozy rooms. The staff "speaks perfect Ukrainian". Both the waitresses and the guys who prepare the desserts are very young and work in a good mood. We felt like we were in Europe.
This is a retro menu.
Of course, we wanted to try "Lviv coffee", but we don't drink coffee at night. Besides, we drink sweet coffee, and what's the point of sweet coffee with chocolate? We ordered ginger tea. And since it is served in a tall glass mug, it looked beautiful - it has a piece of orange, lemon, ginger root, a cinnamon stick and fresh mint. I ordered pudding, my husband - Lviv glazed cake (in Ukrainian "tistechko"). We told the waitress, a very nice girl, that we were there for the first time and wanted another candy for each of us, at her discretion, but that we do not like coconut, and we respect dark chocolate more than milk chocolate.
The atmosphere here is pleasant, the music is quiet, Ukrainian, no "chanson". The interior is in chocolate tones, the tablecloths are crocheted. The girls' uniforms are in a romantic style, the color of cocoa with milk, with chocolate-colored trim. Well, just like "Lviv coffee shop" of the beginning of the 20th century.
One downside is that there are no hangers, but there is no place to put them, so our outerwear lay on the third chair.
My pudding was very tasty, the bottom layer is the most bitter, but not really bitter, just the way I like it. My husband liked his cake too. And with sour tea without sugar it all gave even more pleasure.
And the sweets are wonderful. One got “Cherry Spatzer”, the other “Vidensky Truffle”.
We then bought 6 more different ones at the store for home, including "Bila Goverla" (what mountain tourist wouldn't want to try a candy with such a name?). These 6 candies only lasted until this evening. Pleasant memories remain.
There are probably two types of food products in nature that I speak about with special reverence – 1. fish and seafood and 2. chocolate.
Loose chocolate. Everyone knows that French men love to cook. Once upon a time, our daughter had a French chef. He treated her to two interesting baking recipes, poured liqueur into small bottles for them (included in the recipe) and wrote that the chocolate for this cake should not be taken from the supermarket, but handmade. At that time, I did not even imagine that such a thing existed. And here it is, lying around in kilograms.
The spirit of the times. And in the online catalog this character is also with horns and a machine gun.
The assortment is for every taste. I didn't photograph all the shelves.
This is the gastronomic pleasure we got on a warm (+5 degrees) winter evening. It cost us 135 UAH plus candies to go 40 UAH.
And to avoid absorbing too many extra calories, we walked up and up Gorky Street, to the metro.
Source: travel.ru