A restaurant that aims to raise the profile of Ukrainian gastronomy is to launch in Notting Hill next week. The first UK project from entrepreneur Polina Sychova, Sino will showcase the cooking of chef Eugene Korolev, the president of Ukraine’s Bocuse D’Or team. The restaurant takes its name from the Ukrainian word for hay (pronounced […]
Ukrainian restaurant Tatar Bunar launches next week in Shoreditch, showcasing home-style regional cooking from Bessarabia in the south of the country. It takes its name from Tatarbunary, close to Romania on the Black Sea coast and the hometown of co-founder Alex Cooper, and has a menu inspired by his grandmother’s recipes for such classic comfort […]
A star Ukrainian chef stranded in London when Russia invaded his home country is to open a restaurant in west London staffed by refugees from the war. The “neo-bistro” Mriya, from Yurii Kovryzhenko and his partner Olga Tsybytovska, launches in Chelsea’s Brompton Road this month. Yurii, who runs the restaurant Vintage Nouveau in Lviv, has […]
Ukrainian food writer Olia Hercules has joined forces with fellow chefs and foodies to launch #CookforUkraine, a campaign to raise awareness and funds to support the people of Ukraine. Its JustGiving page raised more than £50,000 for Unicef within four days of its launch on Sunday. Olia has joined forces in the campaign with food […]
