An evening in a restaurant always gets better when there's live music. Pick your restaurant tonight.
Three times a week, Arbequina restaurant treats visitors with a southern mix of Spanish guitar and song. Enjoy authentic Spanish live music along with a fresh crisp salad, olives and jamon in the center of Kyiv.
Wednesday-Friday, July 29, Aug 3-5, 8 p.m., Arbequina restaurant, 4 Borysa Grinchenka St., metro Maidan Nezalezhnosti, tel. 223-9618.
Ivan Denysenko plays covers of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, among others in clubs and pubs around Kyiv. They will go well with beer and sausage inPorter pub on Friday, July 29, 9 p.m.,13 Spaska St., tel. 425- 0223.
Belgian pub Le Cosmopolite breaks the pattern of a Friday-night-only tradition of after-work parties.
It appeals to many visitors specifically for being cosmopolitan every day of the week. The sounds of live piano, double bass and guitar daily, except Sundays, relax business diners, add romance to dates or just fill in uncomfortable silences.
Monday-Saturday, 8 p.m., Le Cosmopolit, 47 Volodymyrska St., tel. 278-7278.
No food but plenty of quality music in Master-Klass center that luckily doesn’t break for the summer. Maryna Kramarenko & Friends will present a jazz night “Goodbye But Not Forever”on Wednesday, August 3,8 p.m. Cultural center Master-Klass, 34 Mazepy St., metro Arsenalna, www.masterklass.org/eng, 594-1063. Tickets: Hr 40.
And on Friday, tune in for the famous opera arias from Bellini’s “Capuletti and Montecchi,” Puccini’s “La Boheme” and Bach’s “Dies Irae,” among others, on Friday, July 29, 8 p.m., Cultural center Master-Klass, 34 Mazepy St., metro Arsenalna, www.masterklass.org/eng, 594-1063. Tickets: Hr 30.