Restaurateur
Saveliy Libkin

Tags: маркетинг, маркетинг ресторана

Tomorrow, in a friendly way, she should pour 50 grams and lay the table… A little herring with onion, potatoes and a few pieces of smoked brisket from Privoz on the polished plates and obligatory olives. It will be enough to have a bite after a toast. And we should buy presents, iron the trousers and put on the jackets and go to say happy birthday again.

It is better to prepare a toast beforehand and in various languages… In Armenian and Greek, in Jewish and Russian, in Bulgarian and even in Ukrainian… Because the lady is multilingual… And her age in terms of  human one is trifling at all… She is almost a girl. And of course all wishes must come true. Because the wishes are sincere and vodka is hard.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ODESSA.

Tags: Odessa

An accidental portrait of a fine person

Tags: people

The first dinner was at «Taron». We were received hospitably by Vado the owner and the manager of this restaurant at the same time. Everything was delicious and simple. Then we had a tea and dessert at rather busy café «Centaur» in the downtown. One can reason for a long time why coffee house is named «Centaur» but there are a lot of guests there, the service is pleasant and in general everything is o.k.

The very acquaintance with food service began the next day at the hotel during the breakfast. About these things I usually tell the following: the restaurant is on technical level. The pictures and other attributes are in their place. The staff smiles.  The frankfurters are hardly warm. The croissants are from Polish packet with endless best-before date resemble rather dried up tadpoles. The processed cheese and also mayonnaise, mustard and ketchup are in assortment. The hotel is new, the staff of the lobby is friendly and well-wishing and this compensates “the breakfast” with usury.

Then we had a lunch at pizzeria which is considered to be a delicious one in Lvov. Some people have an opinion that the products for this pizzeria are delivered from Italy. Pizza and calzone cooked in the wood burning oven seemed to be prepared normally enough, but the products were local including rubber mozzarella and tomatoes. The atmosphere at the table was excellent thanks to communication with Vado and artist Vladimir Kostirko.

I have chosen the second restaurant of Veronica with high-sounding name«Аmadeus» for dinner but Vado recommended their newest project «Black cat». Decorated in the style of «rich restaurant» with the help of English pub’s paraphernalia and huge budget for fabrics, copper and other foreign beer accoutrements «Black cat» seemed to be bad-looking from the facade but as we came their already we decided to come in. The menu is huge and it includes everything you want beginning from sushi and up to foie gras and dumplings. The dining room is empty. The service is provincial in Ukrainian style with famous and ubiquitous phrase «what do you like?» and then a list of section of the menu…

We had tea and dessert at busy «Centaur» again. The next day we decided to find the restaurant for lunch by ourselves without asking Vado but just inspecting menus and atmosphere of the restaurant in the downtown. After inspection of several empty semi restaurants we came across the hotel «Leopolis» where we left the car. It should be said that we also tried to have a lunch at «Kraivka» about which we have heard in Odessa but outright rudeness of primitive jerk guard and criticism of Odessa from his lips done their part.

This time empty dinning room and pompous waiter at the «Leopolis» didn’t force us to leave at once as we were tired of walking. The food is expensive but it can be applied to the prices in the menu only. That things on the plate looked hardly 20% of its cost in the menu. In short we began to eat and it was late to leave. Everyone at the table made a wry faces. After my Caesar salad from Chinese cabbage I was occupied with searching a way to leave a feedback for the staff. That is what I got in the result.

Maybe it looks somewhat rude according to the form… but on the other hand it is very right according to essence.

The last dinner at «Тaron» again was with greatly cooked pilaf. The general impression is the following: everything is o.k. with pictures, old furniture and décor in the majority of the restaurants… They don’t pay any attention to food in principle. It seems that in the majority of the restaurants the waiters work as a cooks when they don’t busy with making the furniture old. And the tourists like very much these aged things in Lvov.

Tags: Львов, Restaurants

A few photoes at one of the restaurants on the highway Odessa-Lvov

Some more photoes from Lvov

Post editing by Sergey Spector