WHAT WE LIKED Caucasian tomato, bademjan (eggplant with tomato), Uzbek bread, Rendezvous salad, herring with onions, borscht, potato pierogies, puff pastry with cheese and dill, beef shish kebab, Uzbek plov, honey cake with custard, cocoa-and-pecan cake.
BEST DISHES: Borschts, potato pancakes, boiled beef with horseradish sauce, veal meatballs with dill sauce, stuffed cabbage, chicken cutlet, bigos, blintzes.
I still, however, always seek out the paler "candy" beets, fearful of what babushka Lusia would say if she ever saw that my borscht potatoes were dyed that screaming purple-red.
Driving to his place for dinner (borscht, potatoes with mushrooms, tomato and onion salad; a cold tea of mint, whole cranberries, melissa, lemon, & sugar), Kostya asked if we'd met an American named Dave a few days prior in Ufa.
They offer surprisingly appealing versions of what you might expect: borscht, meatballs and potato salad along with occasional nods to the former Soviet states (say, Uzbek kebabs).
The menu changes daily, but it includes bigos, a hunter's stew; golabki, stuffed cabbage; and other traditional plates like potato pancakes, goulash, blintzes and borscht.
WHAT WE LIKED Sauerkraut and mushroom pierogies, kielbasa with onions, potato pancakes, chicken soup, beet borscht, white cabbage salad, red cabbage salad, cooked beet salad, cucumber salad, hunter's stew, pork meat loaf, tenderloin schnitzel, cheese blintzes, apple cake.
Much of his childhood was spent with his grandmother, learning about his Ukrainian heritage and enjoying the borscht, chopped liver, potato latkes and other foods of his family's old-world traditions.
469 6th Avenue, +1 212 675 4295, kinshopnyc.com, mains $14-27 14-27ka, an East Veselka stanlEast Village, staple all manner of comfort food, be it Ukrainian (pierogisince 1954pancakeserves allle sauce, borscht, beef stroganoff) or Amannern (Cofb salad, banana pancomfortmac 'n' cheese).
Kebabs, pelmeni dumplings, sour cherry rice, borscht and mashed potatoes with sour cream and garlic do not talk down to youngsters.
