The most pop­u­lar Ukrain­ian dish­es are borsch (also known as bor­shcht), varenyky (also known as pyro­hy [pe-ro-hi] or piero­gi) and hol­ubt­si.  

Borsch is a veg­etable soup made out of beet­root, cab­bage, pota­toes, toma­toes, car­rots, onions, gar­lic, and dill. There are about 30 vari­eties of this dish.  Ukrain­ian borsch is an all time favourite!

Varenyky (also called pyro­hy) are a very pop­u­lar quick-fix dish in Ukraine. They are dumplings cooked with dif­fer­ent savoury and sweet fillings–cottage cheese, mush­rooms, cher­ries, blue­ber­ries and many more. The first varenyky are believed to be cooked on the ter­ri­to­ry of Ukraine as many as 6 thou­sand years ago. There are even two mon­u­ments of varenyky in the world, locat­ed in Cherkassy, Ukraine and Glen­don, Cana­da.

Hol­ubt­si  are Ukrain­ian stuffed cab­bage rolls. The main ingre­di­ents for this cab­bage roll are cab­bage leaves, which are wrapped around dif­fer­ent fill­ings. The word “hol­ubt­si” derived from the Ukrain­ian word “hol­ub” mean­ing pigeon.

Ukrain­ian Bak­ery is a small busi­ness based in Strand, West­ern Cape. This project was inspired by the First Ukrain­ian Fes­ti­val in Cape Town, 2017. At first it was launched as a bak­ery, but fol­low­ing count­less requests from cus­tomers, it expand­ed into a food com­pa­ny. Today, we are proud to offer the fresh­est and finest tra­di­tion­al  home­made Ukrain­ian food, such as varenyky, borsch, pam­pushky, deruny, hol­ubt­si, holodets’,  nalysnyky, kysh­ka, and much more. We are also thrilled to present a wide vari­ety of deli­cious baked goods and spe­cial­ty cakes. All of these items are hand­made from scratch, using only nat­ur­al ingre­di­ents. Our menu is con­stant­ly grow­ing, so please check back often for new offer­ings. We care about the qual­i­ty and rep­u­ta­tion of our brand, and we always strive to pro­vide the best pos­si­ble ser­vice. Ukrain­ian Bak­ery is a home oper­a­tion in Strand, but we offer deliv­ery through­out Cape Town. http://www.ukrbakery.co.za/ ; Face­book: https://www.facebook.com/ukrbakery.za/ 

phone: 071 334 6956  / email : [email protected]

The Bistro 44 on the R44 in Welling­ton, is a fam­i­ly owned bistro run by Anton­i­na, a Ukrain­ian, and Mar­tyn, a South African. The vis­i­tors are greet­ed by Ukrain­ian and South African flags. The borsch and varenyky are always avail­able on the menu here. You can also order oth­er Ukrain­ian dish­es in advance.

phone: 0832708554 / email: [email protected]

Tatiana Klin­dukho­va offers a vari­ety of home­made varenyky with pota­to & onions, pota­to & mush­rooms; mush­rooms & cab­bage; and sweet cot­tage cheese (home­made cot­tage cheese). She also offers veg­e­tar­i­an hol­ubt­si with mush­rooms and ordi­nary hol­ubt­si with beef mince, in addi­tion to pick­led cab­bage, East­er bread, called pas­ka, and vari­ety of Ukrain­ian cakes. Deliv­ery is avail­able in Pre­to­ria and Johan­nes­burg (Midrand)

phone: 0834608619