Cozy cafes, where Lviv literary and artistic Bohemia likes getting together, create a fascinating atmosphere in the Old City. Black coffee is an integral part of living Lviv-style.
Legend has it, that Prince Yuriy Kultchytsky, a prominent figure in Ukrainian and European history, introduced this tradition. It was him who in 1678 offered Europeans then unknown aromatic beverage by way of opening in Vienna the first caf? in Europe. There is a caf? in Lviv, which has the name of its founder
“At Yuriy Kultchytsky’s”.