Syrnyky — Ukrainian traditional dish, our way
Four variations on the breakfast menu — three sweet, one savory. One Ukrainian accent inside a broader European frame.
By Chef Ivan Proseniuk
Syrnyky are a Ukrainian breakfast staple: small cottage cheese pancakes, pan-fried golden, served with preserves and crème fraîche. We have four variations on the breakfast menu because the kitchen kept finding good versions and refused to pick just one.
Two of them are sweet — sour cream and buckwheat honey with strawberries, or vanilla cream with passionfruit, or custard with poppy seeds and berry compote. The fourth is savory: cream cheese, dill, smoked salmon, and red caviar. Different dish entirely, same technique.
The frame of the kitchen is European: French croque madame influence in the croissant-base avocado toast, Italian risottos and ravioli, Spanish gazpacho. Syrnyky sit inside that frame as one specific Ukrainian accent — not a category. They're on the menu because they're delicious.