Kupidon

Kyiv


Cupid is a great Lviv-styled cellar knaypa (pub) abutting a secondhand bookshop. The culinary highlights are the domestic sausages and the eclectic, potato-based, Galician and Hutsul meals-in-a-jar, but other Ukrainian staples are well represented. They also serve fine beer snacks to accompany marvellously cheap (25uah) pints of Lvivske.


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