Ukrainian kitchens now run from a back room in the East Village to a Michelin-listed dining room in Chicago and a roastery on Maine's coast. We mapped them across three posts this year, and your comments kept adding names to the list. This guide puts all 25 restaurants, bakeries, cafés, and roasters in one place, grouped by region, with an address and one thing to order at each.
If a dish name is new to you, we explain it the first time it comes up.
Hours, menus, and locations change, so check each place's page before you go. Kavka and Ptashka also sell beyond their home states, and Ukrainian Flavors delivers across Southern California.
The Northeast
Ukrainian East Village Restaurant
New York, NY · 140 Second Avenue, East Village
Stephania came to New York from Ukraine in 1957. In 1963, she took over the back room of a building dating to around 1830, which had previously served as a private house, a YMCA, and a supper club during the gangster era. The neighborhood outside has changed completely since then, but people still come in for varenyky, Ukrainian dumplings, and family-style cooking that is getting hard to find in the city.
Pavlo Mochi
New York, NY · 199 Avenue B, East Village
Pavlo Servetnyk won MasterChef Ukraine and cooked in fine-dining kitchens across Europe and Asia before opening a shop that makes one thing exceptionally well. The room is pink from wall to wall, and the kitchen is open, so you can watch them make mochi while you pick a flavor. Regulars point to mango passionfruit.
Kavka Coffee
Camden, ME · 5 Colcord Avenue · also North Lauderdale, FL
Maks Isakov arrived in Maine in August 2022. In 2023, he borrowed a local roaster's machine to test whether Americans would buy coffee roasted by a Ukrainian, and when they did, he crowdfunded a roastery of his own in Camden. Kavka now supplies 40 stores in six states and ships beans nationwide.
The Mid-Atlantic
Dream Bakery
New Castle, DE · 222 Delaware St
Alex trained under a French pastry chef and makes the bread: naturally fermented loaves and hand-laminated croissants. Al trained with Ukrainian pastry chefs and makes desserts built on fresh fruit and berries on the main street of one of the country's oldest towns. Start with the sourdough baguette.
Ruta
Washington, DC · 327 7th St SE · Bethesda, MD · 4862 Cordell Avenue
Ruta opened as the first Ukrainian restaurant in the DMV (the local shorthand for DC, Maryland, and Virginia), and it treats its kitchen as an introduction to Ukrainian culture. Classics like borsch, the beet soup, and holubtsi, cabbage rolls stuffed with meat and rice, share the menu with modern fusion plates. Leave room for the honey cake.
Sorso
Washington, DC · 2475 18th St NW, Adams Morgan
Sorso is Italian for "sip," which explains the prosecco on tap. It opened in spring 2026 on an Adams Morgan corner that has been through a long run of restaurants, with small plates that look Italian and taste Ukrainian. Come for the aperitivo hour and order the meat and cheese board.
Krem Bakery & Cafe
Virginia Beach, VA · 2923 Virginia Beach Blvd
During lockdown, Iryna Kremenchutskyi learned pastry-making online, taking classes with chefs including Christophe Adam and Cédric Grolet. In June 2023, she and her husband, Maksym, opened Krem. The pastry case covers a lot of ground, from Ukrainian honey cake to a pear mousse pastry to lemon tart.
The Southeast
Slava Cafe & Bakery
Asheville, NC · 37 Wall Street
Svitlana Eadie lived in Asheville for twenty years and catered there from 2017 before opening her own place in 2025. The menu features borsch, holubtsi, plov, deruny (potato pancakes), syrnyky (farmer's cheese pancakes), house bread, and kvas, a fermented bread drink. Inspired by her grandmother and food-centered childhood home, she recommends sharing the pletinka, a braided sweet bread.
Edelweiss Pastry Boutique
Highlands, NC · 892 N Fourth Street
Oksana Shchelgachova comes from a family of bakers in Ukraine and has lived in this North Carolina mountain town for fourteen years. She opened Edelweiss in 2023 and later reached the finals of Food Network's Halloween Baking Championship. The case holds mousse cakes, morning pastries, chocolate sculptures, and more than half is gluten-free. Customers single out the cheesecake.
Farmer's Milk
Hollywood, FL · 1801 N Young Circle · Miami, FL · 261 NW 24th St, Wynwood · also Schaumburg, IL · 1160 S Roselle Rd
Farmer's Milk opened in Kyiv and Odesa in 2011, inspired by the belief that food straight from the farm tastes better. Before expanding to the U.S., it had grown to more than eighty locations. Expect house-made yogurt, warm pastries, and all-day breakfast. The two cakes to order are Napoleon, thin puff pastry layered with custard, and medovyk, the layered honey cake.
The Midwest
Soloway Café and Abrah Bakery & Daily Bistro
Chicago, IL · 2275 and 2269 N Lincoln Ave
Iryna and Arthur Yuzvik have run cafés in Ukraine for more than a decade. They brought their Ukrainian-roasted coffee to Chicago with Soloway, then opened Abrah four doors down. Abrah serves bread and pastries, a breakfast-to-dinner menu, and wine. House signatures include the pistachio croissant and passion mango matcha.
→ @solowaycoffee · @abrahbakery
Anelya
Chicago, IL · 3472 N Elston Ave, Avondale
Chef Johnny Clark named Anelya after his grandmother and tiled the floor in the pattern from her childhood home in Kharkiv. It became the first Ukrainian restaurant listed in the Michelin Guide. Order the halushky (soft dumplings) with braised short rib and huckleberries, the trout roe tart, and the Napoleon with rose and black tea.
Velour Restaurant and Damar Bakery
Chicago, IL · 4742 and 4748 N Cumberland Ave
These two sit two doors apart on Cumberland Avenue. Velour's Ukrainian dishes go further than most menus in the country, with black cheese varenyky, banosh, a cornmeal porridge from the Carpathians, and bograch, a paprika stew from far western Ukraine. Damar is the morning stop next door, with sourdough and croissants baked daily, plus coffee, matcha and smoothies.
→ @velour.restaurant · @damarbakerychi
Piece & Freedom Bakery
Ames, IA · 301 Main Street, Suite 107
Shalika Khindurangala and Hanna Petrova both come from Kyiv but met in Ames at an Independence Day gathering in 2024. Each was running a bakery at a different Iowa farmers' market, so they merged them. The name is Shalika's pun: a Ukrainian needs freedom above all, she says, and sometimes a piece of pie fixes everything. Try the onion and gouda sourdough.
Kramarczuk's
Minneapolis, MN · 215 E Hennepin Ave
Wasyl and Anna Kramarczuk came from Ukraine in 1949, each with a trade: he made sausage, and she cooked and baked. In 1954, they bought one of the oldest butcher shops in Minneapolis, put their name on it, and more than seventy years later, it is a city landmark. Go for the sausage.
Patisserie Svoi
St. Louis, MO · 8 S Euclid Ave, Central West End
Pastry chef Taisiia Hrynchyshyn brought her love of European pastry with her from Ukraine and opened Svoi as a family-owned bakery. Svoi means "our own" in Ukrainian, the word for the people you count as family. Cakes, macarons, and mousses are made fresh with natural ingredients, and regulars swear by the almond croissant and the honey almond cake.
Ptashka Crepes
In the freezer aisle of 150+ grocery stores nationwide
Jenya Semenkova grew up in Odesa making nalysnyky, thin Ukrainian crepes, with her mom. She started Ptashka at Michigan farmers' markets in 2023, and it now sells in more than 150 stores across the country. Each pack holds six cooked crepes filled with cherries and vanilla sauce, farmer's cheese and raisins, or mushroom and cheese. Brush them with butter and bake for 20 minutes.
Texas
Laika Cheesecakes & Espresso
San Antonio, TX · 4718 Broadway · also Helotes and New Braunfels
Anna Afanasieva grew up in Odesa and taught herself cheesecake and French pastry during the pandemic. You can buy cheesecakes by the slice or in jars, and the names leave no doubt about the theme: Picnic in Space, Space Jam, Milky Way Buffet. Picnic in Space is lemon and blueberry.
European Dumplings Cafe
Castle Hills, San Antonio, TX · 2211 NW Military Hwy, Suite 131B
Olga Veretelnik left Ukraine for Oregon in 1993 and moved to San Antonio in 2021. She started with a food truck and, on March 18, 2023, opened the city's first Ukrainian restaurant. Order chebureky, fried turnovers filled with chicken and cheese, along with lamb dumplings and a glass of kompot, a sweet drink made from stewed fruit.
California
Mom, Please Ukrainian Food
Los Angeles, CA · 13151 Fountain Park Dr, Playa Vista
Oleksii Kochetkov and Inna Kochetkova come from Mariupol, the port city on the Sea of Azov that Russia besieged and occupied in 2022. They opened the restaurant in a former pizzeria with a sunny patio, and the mom in the name is Olena, Oleksii's mother, who runs the kitchen from her own recipe notes. Start with the varenyky and the borsch.
Leleka
San Francisco, CA · 40 Belden Place · also Sunnyvale and San Mateo
Leleka is Ukrainian for stork, the bird that returns to the same nest every year. The owners hold every dish to one test: whether they would feed it to their own children. Order borsch, varenyky, pyrizhky (small filled buns), kompot, and Kyiv cake, layers of nut meringue and buttercream.
Franko&Co
Sausalito, CA · 721 Bridgeway
This coffee shop and bakery, half an hour from San Francisco, is named after Ivan Franko, the 19th-century Ukrainian writer and philosopher. The room is painted in the colors of a Ukrainian village, and handmade ceramics line the shelves. Come for coffee and a long breakfast.
Ukrainian Flavors
Free delivery across Los Angeles, Ventura County, and Santa Barbara · pickup in Camarillo by appointment
Tetiana worked in tech in Ukraine until 2022 and arrived in California with no English and no contacts. Cooking was what held her, and today she and her husband run it as a family business, making varenyky, holubtsi, borsch, and crepes by hand. Order online for delivery, or book a pickup from their kitchen in Camarillo.
