A dinner in a restaurant with kids might sound like a nightmare with whims, tears and food on the floor. However, a family event will go smoothly if children are entertained and have enough room to go crazy. The Kyiv Post picked some of the best restaurants and cafes in Kyiv that have playrooms and arrange workshops for children.
Baby Bar
This place is a real fairytale for children — made in bright colors, its design resembles a toy house. Baby Bar is divided into a playroom and a dining room. In the playroom, children can find numerous games, toys, rocking horses and a drawing board. While kids are having fun, a babysitter will watch and entertain them. However, parents with children under 3 years old are recommended to accompany their little ones.
The kids menu includes mashed fruits and vegetables, porridges, burgers with either chicken or veal, syrnyky (Ukrainian cottage cheese pancakes), pancakes and ice cream. Adults can try appetizers, salads, soup, pasta, steaks, pies and desserts. The drink menu offers coffee, tea, milkshakes, cocktails and liquor.
Apart from that, the Baby Bar conducts culinary and crafts workshops for children that are announced on their website beforehand. At culinary lessons, kids learn how to make cupcakes, pizza or gingerbread. The restaurant also arranges parties, where little ones can have fun, meet new friends, play with assistants dressed like cartoon characters and eat cake.
Prices: workshops are Hr 50–75, parties Hr 100–150
Baby Bar (4 Lvivska Square). 11 a. m. — 10 p. m. +38044 537 2223
www.baby-bar.kiev.ua
Montecchi Capuleti
This Italian restaurant has a playroom with a small house, board games, books and coloring pages. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday while kids are playing, they remain under the supervision of a nanny. In addition, the restaurant sets workshops on how to make pizza, pasta and desserts like éclairs. They are available for groups of five and more kids.
Montecchi Capuleti serves traditional Italian cuisine including antipasti, fish, meat, seafood, pizza, pasta, ravioli, risotto, salads and soup. The kid menu offers five kinds of pizza, Caesar salad, chicken soup and minestrone, pasta and ravioli, as well as desserts — cheesecake, syrnyky, panna cotta.
Prices: workshop — Hr 150.
Montecchi Capuleti (36V Yevhena Konovaltsia St.) 10 a. m. — 11 p. m. +38044 373 6888
www.montecchi-capuleti.com/en
Lviv Handmade Chocolate
This cafe producing one of the tastiest chocolate sweets in Ukraine was founded in 2009 in Lviv. Since then, it has grown to a well known and loved chain with cafes located all over the country.
Lviv Handmade Chocolate makes sweets for all tastes — candy with marzipan, nougat, truffles, nuts, souffle and liquors, as well as dragee and chocolate bars made in different sizes and shapes. They also serve coffee, tea and hot chocolate.
Apart from attracting children with their products themselves, Lviv Handmade Chocolate sets workshops for the little ones. Kids have an opportunity to learn how to make candy and decorate chocolate bars. Workshops are usually held for a group of at least five children and cost Hr 250 or Hr 400 per one depending on the quantity of candy made.
Prices: workshops are Hr 250–400.
Lviv Handmade Chocolate (2B Andriivskyi Uzviz St., 36 Tarasa Shevchenka Blvd., 20D Poliarna St., 40 Budivelnykiv St., 6A Valeriia Lobanovskoho Ave., 1 Verbytskoho St., 45 Antonovycha St.) +38050 372 98 97
www.chocolate.lviv.ua
Al Faro
This restaurant takes care of children’s outdoor leisure on a warm sunny day. At their playground children will find slides, swings and rocking horses. While kids are enjoying entertainment, parents can have their meals on a beautiful light terrace.
Apart from that, those children, whose families order pizza, are welcome to take part in cooking it. The workshop is free, yet enthralling for little ones who get to wear a chef hat and an apron, go to the kitchen and learn how to make pizza.
Al Faro serves traditional Italian dishes — carpaccio, tartar, bruschettas, cold and warm salads, soup, risotto, pasta, fish, meat, seafood, pizza. The restaurant offers a choice of desserts such as tiramisu, tortino, cream brulee, cheesecake and sorbet. Al Faro sells tea, coffee, fresh juice, beer, wine, alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails.
Prices: workshop — free.
Al Faro (49A Velyka Vasylkivska St.) 11 a. m. — 11:30 p. m. +38098 114 3300
www.alfaro.ua/en
Kartata Potata
Kartata Potata is a comfy restaurant and a food store at the same time. They serve dishes from different cuisines including French, Italian, English and Ukrainian. They offer breakfasts (croissants, pancakes, syrnyky, porridge, eggs and meat), soup, salads, fish and meat, desserts. Their kids menu includes consommé (French broth with chicken), schnitzel, pizza, casserole. The restaurant also sells lemonades, milkshakes, coffee, sangria, cocktails and wine.
To share their love to cooking with children, Kartata Potata conducts culinary workshops every Sunday. One workshop usually includes cooking three dishes from different cuisines. Apart from that, children find out about eating habits and traditions from all over the world.
Culinary workshops are recommended to children of school age. Details about the future workshops can be found on the restaurant’s website.
Prices: workshop — Hr 500–700.
Kartata Potata (1–3/5 Pushkinska St.) 8 a. m. — 11 p. m. +38067 337 7755
www.kartatapotata.ua
Vino e Cucina
A three-story restaurant that offers Italian food, over 1,000 kinds of wine and where live music is played at night sounds like a perfect dinner spot for adults. However, Vino e Cucina has prepared something special for children as well.
The restaurant has an area for children with a table and chairs, where kids can play board games and enjoy coloring books. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday play assistants entertain children and even perform a small puppet show. In addition, children can learn to make pizza, ice cream, and non-alcoholic cocktails.
Vino e Cucina serves Italian cuisine — bruschettas, salads with seafood, antipasti, vegetable soup, pasta, risotto, pizza, over 10 desserts and more. The drink menu includes smoothies, lemonade, milkshakes, wine, champagne and grappa.
Prices: pizza making workshop is free; ice cream and cocktail workshops are Hr 70.
Vino e Cucina (82 Sichovykh Striltsiv St.) 8 a. m. — 12 a. m. +38067 823 8282
www.famiglia.com.ua/en/vino-e-cucina
