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ive atmosphere. It serves sandwiches and fondues, as well as wine and coffee with pep-
per. Set well back from the street along a passageway.
Svit Kavy
CAFE
(pl Katedralna 6; 7.45am-11pm Mon-Fri, from 8.45am Sat & Sun; )
Pick of the bunch on pl
Katedralna, with no theme, no gimmicks, just a focus on Lviv's best coffee-making tradi-
tions (hence it's always packed with locals). Beans come from almost every continent,
and if you like the drink, you can buy the unground raw ingredient in the shop next door.
Lvivska Kopalnya Kavy
CAFE
(pl Rynok 10; 8am-11pm; )
Lviv is Ukraine's undisputed coffee capital and the 'Lviv
Coffee Mine' is where the stratum of arabica is excavated by the local colliers from deep
beneath pl Rynok. You can tour the mine or just sample the heart-pumping end product at
tables as dark as the brews inside or out on the courtyard beneath old timber balconies.
Robert Doms Beer House
BEER HALL
(
www.robertdoms.lviv.ua
;
vul Kleparivska 18; noon-midnight)
This fantastic, utterly unique
beer hall is located three storeys underground in a centuries-old beer-storage vault once
used by the neighbouring Lvivske brewery. It's named after the brewery's founder and
features fresh Lvivske served in litre steins, plus German food and nightly live music in
one of the vault's four chambers.
Italiysky Dvorik
CAFE
(pl Rynok 6; 10am-8pm)
Even if you decide to skip the Lviv History Museum, it's worth
popping in for a coffee in its aptly named inner courtyard. There's a 2uah fee to enter.
Picasso
CLUB
(
www.picasso.lviv.ua
; vul Zelena 88; from 10pm)
Lviv's most atmospheric club, inside a
former theatre, has consistently good DJs and a consistently festive crowd paying proper
homage to them.
Rafinad People
CLUB
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