Pick yourself a cool New Year’s party at one of Kyiv’s clubs and restaurants
As New Year 2008 approaches – there’s little more than a week left now – it’s time to come up with some grandiose plans for celebration. After all, as the famous Russian saying goes: “The way you celebrate the New Year is the way you will spend it,” so this year you have to make sure you have the greatest time you’ve ever had.
Of course, you can always have a nice dinner and watch New Year’s TV shows with your family and relatives or organize a house party with friends. But this may also imply you’ll have to do the shopping (the lines in the supermarkets spread for kilometers during the holidays), then cook all the customary dishes, and of course clean the day after, while your friends (relatives) are curled up on the couch, fighting a terrible hangover. So, you’d rather just relax and enjoy yourself this New Year’s Eve, book yourself a table at one of Kyiv’s restaurants or clubs, and have them prepare everything for you, complete with a fun entertainment program, while all you have to do is just show up looking your best.
Classy fun
A New Year’s celebration in the style of the famous Soviet film “Beloye Sontse Pustyni” (“The White Sun of the Desert”) will be held at Concord restaurant. Party-hosts disguised as two main characters of the film, Comrade Sukhov and Petrukha, will welcome you with vodka and a spoon full of black caviar at the entrance, and then take you to the main hall, decorated with oriental rugs and colorful details from the movie.
Out-of-town Dva Bobra (Two Beavers) restaurant has already opened winter season and invites everyone to celebrate New Year’s Eve and go sleigh-riding and skiing on the territory of the restaurant. Having whetted your appetite through activities in the open air, you can stop by to drink mulled wine and taste dishes cooked in an open fire, fish soups or hot desserts.
At Karavella restaurant, the show program and disco is to be conducted by professionals from Russkoye Radio. All its DJs will be partying there with their show program “Five Continents.” Rising star Myata and duet Chance will perform for you while you taste delicious dishes from the special New Year’s menu: “Karavella” salad with tiger shrimp, sea scallops, caviar and parmesan; “Flora,” of chicken filet, cedar nuts and fruit, grilled ham, veal with foie gras and seafood delicacies. Admission to the Chief Cabin hall is Hr 1500, to the Admiral’s hall it will cost Hr 2000 per person.
In time for this New Year’s Eve Safe is offering a festive menu, a show-program with a stylish hostess, cool deejays, dance ballet and singers, a lot of competitions and dancing till the crack of dawn. Did Moroz will also be around to keep all guests laughing. The main highlights of the entertainment program are Zhenya Fokin’s performance, Moscow’s erotic ballet X-Zone and a soap-bubble. The price for a ticket is $350 dollars.
On Dec. 31 a polar bear will be receiving guests at O’Panas restaurant — not a real one, of course, but almost real in size. Furthermore, local celebrities Arctica, Zhenya Fokin and In Lips show-ballet will perform for you. But the most desired gift of the restaurant on New Year’s Eve will be the drawing of two tours to Zakarpattya. The tasty treats of the night will include salmon stakes, pork with vegetables “Myasni Penechki,” homemade sausage on pancakes, and “Olivier” salad festive-style with crayfish tails. “White and fluffy” cake will complete the culinary program. Tickets for the first floor are $250 and $200 for the second.
The New Year’s program at Tsarske Selo restaurant is called “The Way Cossacks Celebrated New Year.” Such famous Ukrainian singers as Iryna Bilyk and Victor Pavlik, teams of comedians from KVN, as well as a gipsy band will perform for the guests. Everyone will get a club card as a New Year’s gift from the restaurant. After the celebration, a special hangover “menu” will be awaiting you.
Concord (Ploshcha Lva Tolstoho, Kiev-Donbass business center, 234-7788)
Dva Bobra (91 Komarova, Mila village, 451-9175)
Karavella (2 Naberezhne Shose, 553-9919)
Safe (23 Chervonoarmiyska, 235-8862)
O’Panas (10 Tereshchenkivska, 585-0523)
Tsarske Selo (42/1 Sichnevoho Povstannya, 288-9775)
Exotic treats
Caribbean Club is organizing a retro-style New Year’s party a la America in the 1930s, with appropriate dress, live bands and swing dancing. You’re offered three kinds of tickets: economy-class, including light appetizers at the bar for $100; business-class, including a banquet menu, with various cocktails and a table for $200; and VIP-class, which gets you seats on a sofa with drinks and dishes for $200. What’s more – for those who missed the chance to book a table or place at the bar, at 1 a.m. the club will be holding a dance party for an admission fee of Hr 200.
Ani Armenian restaurant offers you the opportunity to celebrate New Year’s twice. First, New Year’s Armenian-style will take place at 10 p.m., and then traditional New Year’s at midnight. While artists Armen and Ashot will entertain you the Armenian way, you’ll be treated to the best Armenian aged cognacs and Ballantine’s whisky, while in time for the New Year you will be of course provided with a glass of champagne. A festive menu comprised of traditional Armenian dishes such as Armenian cheeses, sudzhuk and basturma, “Imambayaldy” salad with warm salmon, and others. During the evening, show-dance troupe Soul B will entertain the guests with their dance show and all night long you can dance to 80s music. A ticket for one person is $250.
In accordance with its name, Marrakesh will conduct an Oriental-style party featuring feasts, sheiks, exotic hookahs, show-ballet, oriental stripper shows, a 70s disco till morning, and certainly the broadcasting of the New Year’s congratulations from the president of Ukraine. And of course, expect various prizes, gifts and surprises from the restaurant.
A New Year’s menu for two people includes “El Aggada” salad with tuna, avocado and vegetables and “Zaaluk” with baked eggplant, various pickles, a fish and meat plate and piquant cheese appetizer “Makhdi,” hot dishes “Ifran” salmon or “Beef Minion,” small Moroccan cakes and puff pastry meat pies “Kemrun,” as well as Eastern sweets.
While Mambo is a Latin-American grill restaurant it prefers to celebrate the New Year with Finnish Santa Claus Youlupukki. DJ Max and Davay Brothers will be responsible for the wild dance club and Zheynya Fokin will arrive to perform. On the festive menu: baked sheep’s leg with spices, traditional salad “Olivier,” duck stuffed with oranges and apples, stewed rabbit with vegetables and fried piglet. You can discuss and arrange a menu of your choice while booking the table.
Caribbean Club (4 Kominterna, 288-1290)
Marrakesh (24 Sahaydachnoho, 494-04494)
Ani (72 Chervonoarmiyska, 590-2565)
Mambo (5 Bulvar Druzhby Narodiv, 522-8224)
Holiday clubbing
Xlib night club will hold a New Year’s party with participation from the famous American band Sex in Dallas, known for their sharp criticism of the US government. Expect a lot of fun and crazy dancing to the tunes of these eccentrics, playing loud, dirty, electro-clash music.
If you’re looking for some fresh impressions and positives emotions this New Year’s Eve, the newly opened night club Gienas has been waiting for you. Only the best deejays and MC’s under the command of famous DJ Lapot will be spinning you around on the dance floor. Also you’ll be treated to exclusive dishes, cocktails, snacks and champagne for all the guests. Tickets for the entrance are $50, but if you want to book seats at a table it will cost you $100.
Because Avalon entertainment complex has a restaurant, night club and lounge bar, it will hold three different parties. In the restaurant, German disco band Ottavan will their timeless hits “Hands up,” “D.I.S.C.O” and “Crazy Music” and legend of 80s Africa Simon, with hits “Hafanana” and “Todo Pasara.” In addition to the disco-festival, Day&Night band will perform, playing your favorite hits. A festive mood will be joined by the fiery show-ballets Persona and Orange, and the New Year’s party will be hosted by Gennadiy Popenko.
At the Azhur disco club, you’ll be partying with the club’s residents and Diamond DJs. Meanwhile, at the lounge bar, one of the funniest comedy teams from KVN, RUDN, will make your time as fun as possible. Plus, expect various competitions, drawings and the New Year’s theatrical barman show “Santa from Mexico.” Tickets cost from $150 to $500.
One of the city’s hottest night clubs, Arena Dance Club, will be holding a really glamorous and stylish New Year’s celebration. The main theme of the New Year’s party will be film shooting, which means you will feel like a film star throughout the night, as all the dancing, competitions and drawings will be filmed. And in the morning you’ll get a disc with the video – starring you. The second part of the show will feature dancing to the beats of DJ Romantic, DJ Lutique and DJ Indigo. Gorchitza Live Project and Comedy Club Ukraine will be entertaining you all night long.
River Palace houses four different sections (the sports bar, the night club, the casino, and the gaming hall), so you’ll have to choose exactly where you’d prefer to have fun on New Year’s Eve. For instance, the New Year’s party at the night club will include a live concert by A.R.M.I.A and Arktika girl-bands and the finalists from the first season of “Fabryka Zirok” (“Star Factory”). The party will involve lots tasty food and drinks, lottery prizes and so on. Booking a table will cost you $65 to $145 dollars.
The headliners of the New Year’s party at Tsar Project club will be DJ Lisa Show and JT Donaldson, playing melodic funk soul-house. Organizers are promising lots of artificial snow and fun for everyone. They offer two variants of celebrations: “premium,” including a booked table with Chivas Regal, Moet&Chandon, and pancakes with red and black caviar, for a price of Hr 3003 per two people, and “standard” which just includes admission to the club for Hr 250 per person.
The night club Cinema is going entertain you with sets from real harsh techno-deejays Pedro Delgardo and Stephane Signore, as well as club residents DJs Sukhar, IQ, Yoshi, Tina, Othervoice, and Stan Laev. Tickets are Hr 150 before 1 a.m., Hr 200 after 1 a.m.
For those who would like to continue partying on Jan. 1 Cinema will hold an after party, “TechnoDetki” with the participation of such deejays as Shl’e’ma, Skaz, Loyva, Lesik and Moscow DJ star Andrey Zorge. The afterparty begins at 11 p.m. and admission is Hr 50 before midnight and Hr 60 after midnight.
Xlib (12 Frunze, 8-067-538-8175)
Gienas (5 Chervonoarmiyska, 230-9632)
Avalon (3 Leontovycha, 234-7494)
Arena dance club (2A Baseyna, 492-0000)
Tsar Project (1V Hrushevskoho, 279-000)
River Palace (Naberezhne Shose, 490-6695)
Cinema (1 Entusiastiv, 295-5854)
