There’s nothing like sinking one’s teeth into a juicy steak, and Kyiv has many restaurants that offer steaks to satisfy the biggest appetites, and suiting every taste and budget.
The Kyiv Post picked out some of the best places serving steak in Ukraine’s capital.
Beef meat & wine
Beef meat & wine offers 10 kinds of steak. It imports marbled beef from the United States, and cooks it on the grill. The menu lists New York, rib-eye, filet mignon, Chateaubriand, cowboy, t-bone and porterhouse stakes, as well as alternative choices of tri-tip, flap and butcher’s steak. Some steaks are available in different portions weighing from 180 grams up to 1,500 grams. The restaurant also offers their customers to pick the degree of marbling (the amount of intramuscular fat) for rib-eye and New York, which affects the price.
Side dishes include grilled vegetables, asparagus with pine nuts, grilled corn, spinach with cream and parmesan, roasted potatoes with mushrooms and cheese sauce, fried potatoes with mushrooms, and grilled pineapple.
The restaurant also serves pepper, mushroom, cheese, BBQ, tomato, and Dorblu sauces to go with the meat.
Apart from that, Beef meat & wine serves appetizers, salads, burgers, soups, fish, poultry dishes and desserts. Their wine list includes over 130 kinds of wine.
Prices: filet mignon — Hr 900–1,300, Chateaubriand — Hr 2,600, steak set — Hr 2,150
Beef meat & wine. 11 Shota Rustaveli St. 9–12 a. m. +38044 384 2804
Goodman
This place is a part of the Goodman international chain of restaurants, which also serves up its steaks in London and Zurich. For their steaks, Goodman uses marbled beef from the United States and Australia, and the meat is cooked in a Josper charcoal grill oven. The menu offers filet mignon and filet Chateau, New York, rib-eye, Chateaubriand and cowboy steak.
Apart from that, the restaurant makes three kinds of large steak — short loin, t-bone, and porterhouse. Goodman also serves steak meals: a Boston dinner that consists of New York or salmon steak, salad and a side dish (grilled vegetables or mashed potatoes), and the Chateau set that includes Chateaubriand steak, spinach pie for an appetizer and a side dish (rice with mushrooms or green beans with bacon).
To garnish the meat, the restaurant offers a variety of sauces: its signature Goodman sauce made with red wine, berries and honey, a pepper sauce with cream and ground pepper, a creamy mushroom sauce and a spicy sauce with garlic. The menu lists nine side dishes, including fried potatoes with mushrooms, grilled vegetables, grilled asparagus, boiled rice and grilled corn.
The restaurant also serves appetizers, soups, salads, fish and seafood entrees, and desserts. The drinks menu includes spirits, cocktails and wine.
Prices: filet mignon — Hr 1,399, Chateaubriand — Hr 2,299, Boston dinner set — Hr 739
Goodman. 75 Zhylianska St. Mon. 12 p. m. — 12 a. m. Tue-Sun. 10–12 a. m. +38044 596 0000
Zdoroviy Gluzd
The restaurant’s name means “common sense” in Ukrainian and reflects its philosophy — a minimalistic menu and reasonable prices. The restaurant offers nine kinds of steak made with beef from Ukrainian farms, cooked in a Josper charcoal grill oven. The steak menu includes filet mignon, butcher’s steak, t-bone, New York, rib-eye and tomahawk. And their pepper steak is served with a Sichuan pepper sauce.
For pampered gourmets, Zdoroviy Gluzd offers dry-aged rib-eye and t-bone. For this kind of steak, the beef is hung or placed on a rack to dry for several weeks in order to saturate the meat with natural flavors and make it tender.
To accompany the meat, the restaurant offers four side dishes — roasted potatoes, grilled corn, spinach and grilled vegetables. They also have a choice of sauces — Porto, based on red wine, a spicy one made with green pepper, Indonesian sambal tomato sauce, and chimichurri sauce with parsley, garlic and oregano.
For the rest of the dishes, Zdoroviy Gluzd uses only local products too. Apart from steaks, they serve appetizers, salads, soups, poultry, burgers, fish and desserts. Their drink menu offers various cocktails, liquor and wine. Delivery is available.
Prices: filet mignon — Hr 275, t-bone — Hr 485, dry-aged rib-eye — Hr 585
Zdoroviy Gluzd. 68/21 Saksahanskoho St. Mon-Fri. 11 a. m. — 11 p. m. Sat-Sun. 12–11 p. m. +38098 665 1944
Vatra
Vatra serves beef from Ukrainian farms and has a wide selection of wines. The name of the restaurant stands for fire in Ukrainian, and reflects the atmosphere of the venue, which has a large fireplace inside.
The venue offers rib-eye steak, T-bone and Filet Mignon, Chuck rib-eye and a Porterhouse steak, served with beef tenderloin cooked as carpaccio or tartar, and the remaining part grilled. The meat is cooked mainly in a Josper charcoal grill oven and is served on wooden boards. Every steak comes with spinach or asparagus as a side dish.
Apart from steaks, Vatra offers a range of BBQ meats, starters, soups, burgers and salads. The BBQ meat option includes beef brisket, as well as beef and pork ribs, served with French fries, red cabbage salad and pickles, all for Hr 138.
Although the menu of the restaurant is about to be revised, the current one is valid until Sept. 29.
Prices: T-bone steak — Hr 348, Filet Mignon — Hr 248, Salmon steak with roasted vegetables — Hr 179, Beef medallions with pepper sauce — Hr 198
Vatra. 4B Horodetskoho St. Mon — Sun 10 a. m. — 11:45 p. m. +38095 325 7979
Sam’s Steak House
Established in 1996, the venue was the first steak house to open in Kyiv. Sam’s Steak House offers six steaks made of beef from Ukrainian farms, and six more steaks made of beef imported from the United States. The meat is either grilled, or cooked in a Josper charcoal grill oven.
As a side dish, the restaurant offers spinach with parmesan cheese, French fries, mashed potatoes, sweet potato fries and grilled vegetables. The venue also has a wide selection of wines. Sam’s Steak House special lunch offer includes a salad, soup or a starter and a steak for Hr 245, Mon — Fri, 12–4 p. m.
The rest of the Sam’s Steak House`s menu includes soups, salads, starters, grilled fish and poultry, as well as deserts and a range of alcoholic cocktails.
The restaurant also sells raw beef from Ukrainian farms, for those who want to cook up a steak at home, and offers the chef’s advice on how to cook great steaks.
Prices: New York steak — Hr 415, Chateaubriand steak — Hr 585, grilled camembert with cranberry sauce — Hr 225, turkey steak — Hr 195, grilled salmon with mango sauce — Hr 395
Sam’s Steak House. 37 Zhylianska St. Mon-Fri 10 a. m. — 11 p. m., Sat-Sun 11 a. m. — 11 p. m. +38044 287 2000
Steakhouse
This restaurant with an open kitchen offers various types of steaks, including a Denver steak, t-bone, rib-eye and tomahawk steak. The venue uses mainly beef from Ukrainian farms, and imports meat from the United States for rib-eye steak only.
The list of side dishes accompanying the steaks includes mashed potatoes, baked vegetables, stewed spinach with ponzu sauce, grilled corn or mushrooms, broccoli with ginger and garlic sauce, as well as baked potatoes with green butter.
Steakhouse also offers a wide range of meat dishes like lamb, beef tartare, and burgers.
Apart from the meat options, the restaurant offers soups, pastas, and salads, as well as desserts, poultry, and fish, washed down with a selection of wines, lemonades and alcoholic cocktails.
Prices: Denver steak — Hr 265, grilled avocado — Hr 185, josper chicken — Hr 280, gazpacho — Hr 165
Steakhouse (49A Volodymyrska St.) Mon-Sun 12 a. m. — 12 p. m. +38067 230 6444
