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MAR 11, 2022
Trendy restaurants in Kyiv switch to cook for army, hospitals, elderly amid war (kyivindependent.com)
Editor’s note: The Kyiv Independent isn’t sharing the names of the restaurants in this story for security reasons.
Before the war, this restaurant in central Kyiv was always packed, no matter the time of the day. It was a popular spot among creative youth and foreigners.
In usual times, it served Beef Bourguignon and Kyiv Mule cocktails, but the war made changes to the menu. Now the restaurant bakes bread for hospitals and cooks chicken soup for defenders of the city.
[...]
The place is hardly recognizable from its days of partying. The decorations are gone, and the windows are covered with black fabric.
[...]
“At first, I wanted to join the territorial defense forces,” Khrobust said. “But I realized that I am useless there. I started thinking what use I could be of and figured – it’s cooking.”
“Instead of a machine gun I grabbed a ladle and a knife,” he went on.
[...]
“Good food keeps the spirit high,” Khrobust said, “The soldiers do everything so we can sleep at night and we do everything for them to be well-fed.”
He came up with a balanced menu, which includes vegetables, porridges, soups and sometimes, fruit.
[...]
“Someone said they can bring a lot of flour if we can make something out of it. I thought of a huge pizza oven we have in our second restaurant and realized we can use it to bake bread,” said Bilyk, a waiter.
Now Bilyk bakes around 80 loaves a day, something he could not have imagined a few weeks ago. He never baked before the war started.
[...]
The restaurant is among a dozen eateries in central Kyiv that joined efforts to help Ukrainian civilians and the military amid the war. Together they produce around 20,000 lunches daily. And that is just one group of restaurants in one neighborhood.
[...]
The restaurants also share groceries with each other.
“We also have volunteers who have cars and who are ready to help (with deliveries),” Herasimchuk said.
[...]
“There is a very interesting thing I just realized,” Herasimchuk said, “Ukrainians are very hardworking people. All people here, it’s necessary for them to be doing something.”
Trendy restaurants in Kyiv switch to cook for army, hospitals, elderly amid war (kyivindependent.com)
Editor’s note: The Kyiv Independent isn’t sharing the names of the restaurants in this story for security reasons.
Before the war, this restaurant in central Kyiv was always packed, no matter the time of the day. It was a popular spot among creative youth and foreigners.
In usual times, it served Beef Bourguignon and Kyiv Mule cocktails, but the war made changes to the menu. Now the restaurant bakes bread for hospitals and cooks chicken soup for defenders of the city.
[...]
The place is hardly recognizable from its days of partying. The decorations are gone, and the windows are covered with black fabric.
[...]
“At first, I wanted to join the territorial defense forces,” Khrobust said. “But I realized that I am useless there. I started thinking what use I could be of and figured – it’s cooking.”
“Instead of a machine gun I grabbed a ladle and a knife,” he went on.
[...]
“Good food keeps the spirit high,” Khrobust said, “The soldiers do everything so we can sleep at night and we do everything for them to be well-fed.”
He came up with a balanced menu, which includes vegetables, porridges, soups and sometimes, fruit.
[...]
“Someone said they can bring a lot of flour if we can make something out of it. I thought of a huge pizza oven we have in our second restaurant and realized we can use it to bake bread,” said Bilyk, a waiter.
Now Bilyk bakes around 80 loaves a day, something he could not have imagined a few weeks ago. He never baked before the war started.
[...]
The restaurant is among a dozen eateries in central Kyiv that joined efforts to help Ukrainian civilians and the military amid the war. Together they produce around 20,000 lunches daily. And that is just one group of restaurants in one neighborhood.
[...]
The restaurants also share groceries with each other.
“We also have volunteers who have cars and who are ready to help (with deliveries),” Herasimchuk said.
[...]
“There is a very interesting thing I just realized,” Herasimchuk said, “Ukrainians are very hardworking people. All people here, it’s necessary for them to be doing something.”
