There is no reason to ever miss the most important meal of the day, with so many Kyiv cafes and hotels serving breakfasts for every taste and budget.
Chashka Espresso Bar
This central cafe serves freshly roasted coffee and all-day breakfast. The breakfast menu offers yogurt with granola, chia seed pudding, oatmeal, croissants and various eggs. The sweet-tooth options include cherry-strawberry toast with orange and cream cheese, banana bread with coffee mousse and nuts, Belgian waffles and a selection of cakes. The cafe serves traditional coffee drinks and filter coffee, as well as sweet raf coffee and a matcha latte.
Prices: cappuccino — Hr 49, eggs Benedict — Hr 99, oatmeal — Hr 69.
Chashka Espresso Bar. 1–3/2 Velyka Zhytomyrska St. 8 a. m. — 11 p. m. Breakfast served 8 a. m. — 10 p. m.
Très Branché
This French restaurant offers three kinds of breakfasts, as well as various stand-alone dishes. Their classic French breakfast includes croissant, baguette, jam, butter and a drink (juice, coffee or tea). Alsace breakfast consists of sausages with dijon mustard, eggs on a cheese sandwich, fried potatoes and grilled vegetables. Très Branché also has a special offer — a combination of any egg dish (poached, scrambled, Benedict, omelet) with a drink for a lower price. The restaurant also serves yogurt with fruit and nuts, avocado toast and oatmeal.
Prices: classic French breakfast — Hr 116, poached eggs with jamon and camembert — Hr 123.
Très Branché. 4 Mykoly Lysenka St. 8 a. m. — 11 p. m. Breakfast served Mon-Fri 8 a. m. — 12 p. m., Sat-Sun 8 a. m. — 2 p. m.
Cookietone
Cookietone concept bakery is a loadstone for both foodies and aesthetes. Their specialty is pancakes with various flavors: classic chocolate or vanilla, sweet pancakes with different combinations of fruit, chocolate, sauces and mousses, and savory ones with salmon, chicken, beef or mozzarella with tomato sauce. Apart from that, Cookietone makes all kinds of eggs — poached eggs with salmon or avocado, boiled, scrambled, baked eggs and omelets. The bakery also offers oatmeal with apple and cinnamon, banana and chocolate, blueberry sauce or caramel and salty nuts.
Prices: pancakes — Hr 95–120, oatmeal — Hr 65, poached eggs — Hr 90–140.
Cookietone. 25/40 Ivana Franka St. Breakfast served Mon-Fri 8 a. m. — 12 p. m., Sat-Sun 8 a. m. — 2 p. m.
Ray
This restaurant with a panoramic view in Gulliver shopping mall is a great spot to have a nourishing breakfast before a long shopping day. Apart from yogurt and oatmeal, Ray offers baked syrnyky (Ukrainian cottage cheese pancakes) and green bowl with spinach, fruit, walnuts and flax seeds. Among heavy breakfast meals, the restaurant serves eggs with bacon, morning pizzetta, spinach waffles with chicken or salmon and traditional Danish sandwich smorrebrod with bacon or ham. The menu also includes a choice of fresh juice, smoothies and lemonades.
Prices: eggs and bacon — Hr 59, smorrebrod sandwich — Hr 89,
Ray. 1A Sportyvna St. Breakfast served 8 a. m. — 12 p. m.
11 Mirrors Hotel
This boutique hotel offers a breakfast buffet for Hr 400. The choice includes dishes of both Ukrainian and mixed European cuisines, including eggs, omelets, sausages, cheese and meat plates, and salads. Apart from that, the restaurant offers a choice of desserts such as cheesecake, chocolate cake, croissants and other pastry.
Prices: breakfast buffet — Hr 400
11 mirrors Design Hotel. 34A Bohdana Khmelnytskoho St.c Breakfast served Mon-Fri, 7 a. m. — 11 a. m., Sat-Sun, 7:30 a. m. — 12 p. m.
Hilton Park Kitchen
Kyiv Hilton’s Park Kitchen restaurant also offers a buffet breakfast. For Hr 1,100 customers can enjoy meat, fish and cheese plates, hot dishes like eggs, sausages, grilled vegetables and waffles, as well as different kinds of freshly baked pastry.
Prices: breakfast buffet — Hr 1,100.
Hilton Hotel, Park Kitchen. 30 Tarasa Shevchenka Blvd. Breakfast served 7 a. m. — 11 a. m.
Boutique Hotel Vozdvyzhensky, Terrace restaurant
Terrace restaurant has a whole range of breakfast meals with eggs — poached eggs with toast and caviar, French omelet with ham and greenery, boiled eggs with Emmental cheese, asparagus and ham. The hotel’s restaurant also serves banana pancakes with syrup and whipped cream, muesli with fresh berries and syrnyky. Their menu also includes bao burgers with pork or duck.
Prices: omelet — Hr 58–69, bao burger — Hr 65–96, banana pancakes — Hr 151.
Boutique Hotel Vozdvyzhensky, Terrace restaurant. 60A/B Vozdvyzhenska St. Breakfast served Mon-Fri, 7 a. m. — 11 a. m. Sat-Sun — 8 a. m. — 12 p. m.
BonApart Hotel
Bon Appetite lobby bar at BonApart Hotel serves four kinds of morning meals for various tastes and preferences. Their French breakfast includes eggs Benedict with salmon or bacon, pancakes with cottage cheese, jam, pudding with fruit and chia seeds and fresh orange juice. The bar’s “Fitness” morning meal consists of oatmeal with dried fruit, cottage cheese with fruit and smoothie.
Their English breakfast includes eggs or omelet, cheese, toast, vegetables and fresh orange juice. Bon Appetite also offers an option for those who prefer to start a day with a glass of wine — it’s served with quail eggs, vegetables, ham, cheese, salmon and toast.
Prices: full breakfast — Hr 250–350.
BonApart, Bon Appetite lobby bar. 14–16 Druzhby Narodiv Blvd. 7:30 a. m. — 9:30 p. m. Breakfast served 7:30 a. m. — 11 a. m.
