Odessa Restaurants near Apart-Hotel ELEGANZA.
Visiting a beautiful city with a wealthy background is almost as thrilling an experience as seeing its most fascinating historic sites. However, a city is something more than just a cluster of streets and buildings; therefore, a true excursion is more than just a one-day sightseeing tour. If you want your tour to leave rich and bright memories in your mind, you should get an insight into the life of the city’s residents.
There is hardly a more sincere and unobtrusive way of getting to know Odessa’s people and understanding the fabulous Odessit humor than through a soulful conversation at a decent restaurant. Apart from countless architectural masterpieces, the city’s downtown area abounds in fascinating restaurants offering multiplicities of cuisines served by skilled and inviting chefs.
We are here to show you around only a few high quality restaurants offering diverse menus and services, which will make you want to stay in this city for much longer than you are planning! Talking about a good restaurant gives the jitters. Visiting one gives a thrill. Walk up to the doorstep and ring the bell and you will be ushered down into the realm of romance, beauty and integrity!
All the restaurants that we covered here are located very close to the Eleganza apartments.
Steakhouse (1 minute walk from ELEGANZA)
Deribasovskay Street 20;
Tell:380-482-348782
Open Daily:9 а.m -12 p.m.
Website:http://www.steak.od.ua
Located right in the heart of Odessa City, on Derybasovskaya Street, Steakhouse is an attraction for wine and meat gourmets, romance-thirsty couples and business partners seeking an isolated and peaceful spot to negotiate and flavor their routine business reality with the rhythms of Tuscany.
The restaurant is a home to the city’s most famous school of wine and meat featuring a unique steak-cooking creative lab and a giant collection of wines. Steakhouse menu includes a variety of meat dishes, including Gorgonzola Steak with paprika, stewed mutton with rosemary, grilled steaks, as well as multifarious soups, desserts, etc.
Tailored to live up to the most fastidious tastes imaginable, Steakhouse’s ambience presents a unique stylistic chemistry of tradition and fashion. People arrive in Odessa City to visit Steakhouse from all parts of Europe and have a wonderful evening with a decent meal spiced up with mellifluous heart-melting music that fits your mood and the restaurant’s overall atmosphere.
Ukrainska Lasunka (3 minute walk from ELEGANZA)
Address :17 Deribasovskaya Street
Telephone : (048) 725-84-12
Hours : 11.am to 11.pm
Web Address : http://www.lakomka.com.ua
Ukrainska Lacomka is yet another example of how profound a chemistry tradition and modernity can make. It is found in Odessa’s downtown area, on Deribasovskaya Street.
The interior features numerous ethnographic artifacts and wall paintings that reflect south-Ukranian folk culture. Lots of local residents and tourists from around the world arrive at the restaurant to get acquainted with national cooking traditions and enjoy vivid evenings with a professional Ukranian folk music band.
Ukrainska Lacomka prides itself on its original and diverse national Ukranian cuisine. Most recipes have been handed down from generation to generation. These include the authentic Ukranian soup called ‘Borsch with Pampushkas’, ‘Salad vid Solokhy’, ‘Povzunets’, and more.
The Irish Pub Mick O’Neills (3 minute walk from ELEGANZA)
Address : 13 Deribasovskaya Street
Telephone : (8-048) 721 - 5333
Hours : 24 Hours
Web Address : http://www.ipub.com.ua
The Irish Pub Mick O’Neills is a tiny patch of Ireland in the middle of Ukraine’s third largest city. Located on Derybasovskaya Street, the Irish Pub is an attraction for beer lovers. Since its inception, it has become an integral element of the city’s culture.
There is hardly a place in Ukraine to equal Mick O’Neills in drinking culture. Its variegated beverage menus include an extensive array of elixirs originating in the remotest parts of Ireland’s mountainous plateau. Here you can taste wines and stronger beverages: liquors, cocktails, cognac, tequila, vodka, aperitives, whiskey, scotch & bourbon, rum, etc. Also, there you can find a variety of alcohol free beverages, such as freshly squeezed juice, alcohol free beer and cocktails, milk shakes, etc.
Red Lobster (20 minute walk from ELEGANZA)
Address : 1 Nahimova Lane
Telephone : 38 048 7150222
Hours : 10.00 a.m - 12.00 p.m.
Found in Shevchenko Park, Red Lobster presents a unique mix of middle-class respectability and saloon simplicity – an ideal spot for a business lunch, family and romantic dinner. The pastel-tinted interior, white grand-piano, flowers along the walls plus a tiny bit of imagination, will carry you back to the early 1900s. It feels like Isedora is out there ready to come down and twist in an impressive bare-foot dance. The park outside evokes a sense of royal grandeur as your imagination continues to propel you further into the realm of the King of the Sea…
The sea theme permeates both the ambience and the menu. Red Lobster offers a variety of seafood cuisines, which include exotic ‘seven fishes’ recipes, just-caught oysters and lobsters, toothfish fillet, and many more.
Boulevard (10 minute walk from ELEGANZA)
Address :1 Yekaterininskaya square
Telephone :38 (048) 777-03-39
Hours :10.am to 11.pm
Web Address :http://en.bulvar-odessa.com
Odessa Boulevard restaurant offers the unique Odessa cuisine and features exceptional Odessa-style interior that illustrates the original 19th century townscape. Many locals refer to Odessa Boulevard as ‘miniature Odessa’, located in Odessa’s ‘most Odessit place’ – in Ekaterininskaya Square, right next to Duke de Richelieu monument. Entering the restaurant triggers a profound sensation of being carried through time and space and back to the times of cobblestone streets and old houses with classic-style balustrades and columned porticos, horse-drawn carriages scurrying by in the dim light of gas street lamps.
The restaurant’s thematic rooms and genuine Odessan cuisine create a perfect combination that makes you imagination zero in on the scenery, banishing the tiniest vestiges of memory of where you have just come from. Menus are composed with the emphasis on purely Odessit cooking traditions and include unique local dishes, such as herring forshmak with apples, stuffed fish, fried goby fillet, Black Sea flounder, and more.
Pecheskago (1 minute walk from ELEGANZA)
Address : 10/12 Gavanay Street in the City Garden
Telephone : (8-048) 726 - 0979
Hours :10.am to 11.pm
Web Address :http://www.pecheskago.od.ua
Pecheskago is a must-visit restaurant for tourists traveling with their friends and families. Located in the heart of Odessa City, in the city garden, at the intersection of Derybasovskaya and Ghavannaya Streets, Pecheskago occupies Joseph de Ribas’s house.
This place is shot through with the spirit of history and tradition and offers diverse cuisine, enjoyable music and polite service. The interior design reveals a visual and spiritual connection with the past, conveying a sense of tranquility once felt by Joseph de Ribas and Duke de Richelieur who used to have time off here.
Kumanetz (1 minute walk from ELEGANZA)
Address :5 Gavanay Street
Telephone : 376-946
Hours :11.00a.m - 12.00 p.m
Kumanetz is another ethnographic restaurant found on Ghavannaya Street of Odessa’s downtown district, a stone’s throw away from the famous Derebasovskaya walkway. Its countryside-style interior design creates a generous and hospitable atmosphere. Here you can see wattles, jars, carts and many other attributes of Ukrainian country life and listen to national folk music. All waiters and bartenders are dressed in Ukrainian national costumes. When talking with visitors, they use the specific Odessit tongue.
Menus include traditional Ukranian dishes, such as ‘borsch with pampushkas’, vareniki with meat and potatoes, guinea pumpkins, etc. No dinner ever goes without a piece of black bread with Ukrainian lard and garlic. Besides, the menu includes a vast number of desserts, elixirs and Ukrainian beer.
Vasilisa (1 minute walk from ELEGANZA)
Address :30 Lanzheronovskaya street
Telephone : (+38 0482) 322 377
Hours : 11.am to 12.pm
I would like to round off our excursion tour around Odessa’s dining out facilities with a tiny yet vibrant island of Russian culture in the center of the city. Located on Ghavannaya Street, in Odessa’s downtown area, Vasilisa is but the only and the most splendid island of Russian wooden architecture and cooking tradition in the city.
The interior features all elements of Russian folk culture. In the minds of numerous visitors, Vasilisa conjures up a fantastic Russian fairytale realm. Here you can admire the Squirrel from Alexander Pushkin’s Fairy Tale of the Tsar Saltan, and the ‘Oak Tree greening by the Ocean, a golden chain around it wound’.
Traditional Russian interior design features massive wooden tables and chairs. Waiters and bartenders are dressed in Russian national costumes. If you are interested in the Russian cuisine, this is the place where you can taste any Russian national dish or beverage. A cup of tea from a samovar is a must for a peaceful conversation with a friend or a loved one!
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