Friends And Beer - Illichivs'k

I love this place! great local craft beer on tap, friendly staff, easy to meet people and make new friends. eating is all kind of beer eating, not expecting too much, better to consider this place more from a pub than a restaurant. great bunker style atmosphere and everyone seems to be always happy and have fun. some good live music. katya is the largest.

Excellent pizza and burgers but poor variety of beer. They could offer just half of the list. Nice staff. Every day of our holiday used to end in this pub.

Great place good value for money but they stop taking orders way before closure time even if its just about getting an extra beer

I was sitting at the bar waving to the bar tender and the waitress to place an order for more than 10 mins. Did not get any attention. The place is not friendly at all as they call themselves.

Good Beer but Gross Food I went here on the suggestion of a friend whom said that the food was good here but they were definitely wrong on this one. Again I do what I normally do when discovering a new restaurant. I try one or two small dishes and then keep ordering with the menu that never leaves my table, (only if the food is good enough to continue onwards) so I don’t have to keep asking for it. I ordered two small skillet dishes, one with lamb in a red curry sauce and the other with chicken in a white cream sauce. Both came with chunks of potato which some were hard and uncooked while most were soft boiled correctly. The red curry sauce in my dish was actually very tasty but there was huge amounts of fat pieces in my mix which I had to put to the side about 200 grams of fat bits that I had to point out to the waiter. The lamb was not trimmed at all, the “cook” just chopped up everything as if he was making a stew. It was inedible really. The grilled baguette bread was the best part of my meal with its nice char-grilled taste made for good dipping in the tasty sauce. But when bread is the highlight of your meal, what does that tell you. The chicken dish was no better, their so-called “cream sauce” was basically water and the pieces of meat in these skillets were like super small chopped up pieces, why? a terrible idea. Needless to say I didn’t order anything else and we went to another restaurant after so that we could eat proper foods. At the end, I accidentally dropped one of their small 250 mg sized beer glasses which broke and the waiter said, “now you have to pay for this glass” and I said, “no I don’t” and “good luck trying to get it out of me.” I also said to him that he should be giving me a discount on the terrible food he served us and I didn’t eat 3-quarters of my dish which was all fat that I said for him to show to his chef all of that waste. He came back and said that I didn’t have to pay for the glass and I said, “it didn’t matter because I wasn’t going to anyways.” My friend said that this is a normal custom in Ukraine where if I break a glass or a dish in any restaurant I am obliged to pay for it. But I just can’t believe this ridiculous concept because it is so insulting for a waiter to tell a customer that they have to pay for this, its insanity really. This cannot be true, no restaurant community would stoop this low. So it was a terrible experience, one that I will not replicate. That was my once and only visit and if I ever do go back there again, it would only be for beers at the bar and not even bar snacks or finger foods. Do yourself a favor and don’t go to this place hungry, only thirsty.