At Lviv’s Hrushevky Cinema Jazz Restaurant you can enjoy Continental European and Ukrainian cuisine as well as weekly movie screenings and live music in a fashionable setting. Hrushevsky is located in the same building that once housed “Korso”, Lviv’s first cinema that opened in 1912.
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L’UFT Pub sits right in Lviv’s center and features democratic prices and comfy couches. It’s a good place to hang out with your friends or catch some live music. The pub offers a mix of Ukrainian and Continental European cuisine and a wide range of drinks.
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Ibiza Cocktail Club is a large beach-themed lounge and disco that features live music, male and female strip shows, and pre-parties on Fridays-Saturdays on the summer terrace. The club is just outside Lviv’s center on Chornovola Avenue, a 5-minute taxi-ride from downtown across the ring road from McDonald’s.
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Liverpool is a British-style pub that serves hearty fare like steaks, burgers and casseroles. Drinkers will appreciate the large whiskey selection (about 60 types) and premium beers on tap, including Guinness, and Liverpool’s house beer. About a 10-minute walk from the Lviv Opera House.
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Lazy Dog is a British-style pub in the center of Lviv with reasonable food prices and excellent beer. A good bet for sports fans looking for pub grub and a place to watch the big game. Try the pub’s “Lazy Dog” house beer (the temne “dark” beer is a fine choice). Menu highlights include grilled and roasted meats and pub grub like spicy buffalo chicken wings and onion rings.
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Dynamo Blues is one of Lviv’s top steakhouses and a destination for live jazz and blues fans. The restaurant is located a bit outside Lviv’s center on Stusa Street and requires a short taxi ride, but all cabbies know where it is. The menu includes delicious steaks (from porterhouse to filet mignon), a variety of fish and meat plates, and specialties like grilled corn and spinach pie.
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White Lion is a downtown English-style pub on a quiet side street. Reasonably-priced pub grub, live music on weekends, and Guinness on tap, all make the bar worth a stop on your Lviv pub crawl. White Lion sits on quiet Lesi Ukrainky Street, a five-minute walk from the Opera House and close to Rynok Square.
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Restaurant “0.5″ and Buffet Bar are good bets if you want to experience a stylish version of a Soviet-style cantina while watching the big game or catching some live music. You can find both places just off Prospect Svobody on Kopernyka Street. The long bar at Restaurant “0.5″ is great for groups that prefer to stand and mingle and offers a good view of the large projection TV for live sports and the stage during concerts.
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Meat and Justice is a covered terrace where you can get your fill of grilled meat and beer in a medieval torture room setting while surrounded by the punishing sounds of heavy metal music. The restaurant is nestled in a corner of the Bernadine Courtyard in Lviv’s Old Town. Recommended dishes include Ukraine’s biggest sausage the “Ksenya”, pork, lamb and chicken shashlyk (shish kebab), and sweet and spicy ribs.
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Left Bank is an underground café and popular late night hangout with Lviv’s student crowd. The café is located under Lviv’s Opera House on central avenue Prospect Svobody. Inside Livyi Bereh (“Left Bank”) you’ll find exhibitions by local artists and you can frequently hear live music there.
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