Is it a museum of Ukrainian traditional village life or is it a restaurant plating up imaginatively cooked Ukrainian food? Well, the truth is, it's both and a lot of fun to boot. Take a seat among the rural knick-knacks, carved chairs and embroidered towels to enjoy dishes such as suckling pig, Transcarpathian bohrach soup and fried carp, served by Cossack waiters.
Sim Porosyat
Lviv
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