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October 16th the exclusive concert of the prominent master of improvisation guitarist-virtuoso, the Folk artist of Ukraine - Enver Izmaylov.

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SOHO restaurant celebrated American Independence Day
and closure of American Steak Week on 4 July

SOHO restaurant successfully conducted a large-scale event - American Steak Week from 27 June to 4 July 2009. Restaurant gave a part of America in the very heart of Ukrainian capital for all present fans of American cuisine and culture. During those days, the chef cook Alex Chorniy showed that the original steak and its preparation are food culture, which has its own secrets, and will satisfy every gourmet who prefer meat menu to vegetarian. Especially for the American Steak Week restaurateurs took care of the special culinary proposal. The time of the American Steak Week at SOHO, was not accidental - it was 4, July American Independence Day.

A party in honor of the closing American Steak Week was a pleasant surprise and gift for the guests. All week, the restaurant was preparing for its guests an unforgettable holiday for America Independence Day. American Steak Week at SOHO showed decorated restaurant in the American style: American flags, western hats, ties. During American Steak Week, guests could taste a steak made of properly cooked meat, specially brought from America. The degree of cooking steaks depended exclusively on the taste and preferences of the guests. When guest ordered steak waiters of restaurant as a bonus had kindly offered a glass of wine or whiskey Jack Daniel's.

Among guests were many willing to learn about the features of the national cuisine and steak. This useful information was gived by waiters of the SOHO restaurant.

The final event and the closing of the American Steak Week at SOHO restaurant start on 4 July , at 16:00. Guests were met by holiday open area decorated with American attributes. Anyone present could dress with western hats and ties, as well as made a photo on the background of the legendary American symbols - the Statue of Liberty, and with photo of the U.S. president Barack Obama in full growth. After guests could enjoy culinary delicacies from the chef cook of the restaurant Alex Chorniy. They were real American hamburgers, salads and appetizers. Everybody tasteed them with pleasure, especially when combined with fine red and white wines.

The musical part of a picnic could not also leave anyone indifferent. Country-bands were held on stage of the music festival . The Contry style atmosphere was made by Sergey Ovsyannikov’s country duet,“Tex-mex” contry band, “Mr.O4 his root boys”, band “Peter Und Wolf”, band “Cowboy band”.

The culmination of events has become a contest for the best steak preparation from Ukrainian celebreties, among which were: Olga Freymut, Snezhana Egorova, Vlada Litovchenko, Oleg Pinchuk, Christina Kots-Gottlieb. Under the sensitive guidance of the chef cook of the restaurant Alexei Chorniy «star cooks», dressed in brand aprons and caps, comprehend the hard nuts and bolts of cooking real steak. All actions were cheered up with jokes and comments of the leading parties, the famous Kiev conference Dmitry Oskin. As a result, star jury had put the highest score for all participants, and the «star cooks», comprehended hard nuts and bolts of cooking real steak. After that they went to taste their self-made delicious.

Celebration of American Steak Week at SOHO finished at the late evening. Happy guests enjoying bright firework festival, taking with them the memory of a piece of America and an unforgettable picnic in the heart of Kiev.

Among guests were met: Freymut Olga, Olga Sumskaya Snezhana Egorova, Vlada Litovchenko, Oleg Pinchuk, Natalya Vlaschenko, Christina Kots-Gottlieb, Anna Filimonova, Gallini, Olga Kalina, Svetlana Charfas

Dear guests!

We are very glad to inform you in project “Music in Soho style” is opening its new season. This season “Soho” art union "CULTURE FOR COMMUNITY" present Solo Alto UK Royal Opera's "Covent Garden" Andrew Viytovich program for violin, viola and piano, "Around the World in 60 minutes"

"Around the World in 60 minutes" is the performance that will make connoisseurs of classical music acquainted with the best samples of world music culture in short period of time! The program will include works that will not leave indifferent fans of different styles of music - from sophisticated classics Gioacchino Rossini to the emotional "Libertango" Astor Piazzolla. Music from all over the world, united by 7 notes, will merge into a single whole and immerse you, this evening, in the fascinating world of art and a unique "live" sound works - the pearls of world culture.

Performance listing:
Andrew Viytovich (violin)
Miroslav Dragan (piano)

1. Frank Bridg - Allegro appasionato / Frank Bridge - Eternal movement
2. George Enescu - Concert piece
3. Tommaso Vitali - Chaconne
4. Gioacchino Rossini - Shepherdess of the Alps
5. Astor Piazzolla - Shark / Astor Piazzolla - Tango Large
6. John Williams - "Memories" from the movie "Schindler's List"
7.Nino Rota - Intermezzo
8. Christian Zinding - Suite in three parts
9. Anna Gavrilets - Final Sonatas for Viola and Piano

Start : March 28 at 6:30 p.m.
Reserve: 484-03-51
Dress code: Black Tie

Sergey Djigurda said: “I am like an epicure in this life”

This actor, bard, poet has wonderful voice and pleasant timbre, knows the technique of versification, periodically gives author concerts.
His repertoire include so much songs, that they can be included in the separate programs. Among them there are a lot of romances.
His teachers were Alexander Galich, Bulat Okudzhava and Vladimir Vysotskiy. Sergey as honest pupil make solo programs in honor to their birth and to Vladimir Vysotskiy two times– on January, 25 and July, 25.

Ladies and gentlemen!

New Year in «SOHO»style…
You get a huge amount of variants of the New Year celebration in eve new-year holidays.
How to choose from this variety one variant which will fully satisfy you?

If you wish to be lucky all over the year, you should celebrate New Year with us!

We guarantee you that any New Year party will not be similar with Happy New Year «in SOHO style»!
Anchormen of the New Year Party – Sergey Pritula “ Ternopil Grey” and Alexander “Angel” Pedan – both famous residents from Comedy Club. This fact shows that cheerful mood of every guest is guaranteed. They will make our party merry relaxed and give it code-named «A Bull goes hanging around» (or «Fairy tale about a New-Year Bull-Calf»).

Attention! Only in New-year night you will become the participant of unforgettable show, enchanting spectacles of fires, music and humor.

Only in «SOHO» every guest will be first who get the portion of happiness and success, and even will have an opportunity to drive on the trained cow.

At first, you will see an original culinary show from the chief-cook of our restaurant. Only in SOHO in this New-Year night you will have an opportunity to taste the specially prepared dish and, undoubtedly, get not only gastronomic pleasure for this night, but also provide your success and lucky in future throughout the year.

Also, you will have an opportunity only in our restaurant to participate in the ceremony of opening New Year Bull Sculpture – a character of the 2009 year by the East calendar.
You will be the first who get a special information about receipt of successes in the next year.
You will know where you should touch, bandage a ribbon, scuff by banknote or just kiss the muzzle of «Happy New Year Bull» to make your next year more happy.
More detail information by using Happy New Year sculpture you can get from anchormen of the New Year Party Sergey Pritula and Alexander Pedan at night from December 31, 2008 till January 1, 2009.
Also, we invite you for “Hangover Table” on January 1, 2009 from 2 p.m. till last guest!

We wait You in our restaurant! We will make Your New Year unforgettable!

Reserving by phone 484-03-51

Special suggestion for a friendly company

Meat Assortment on a Board (Pork chop, Australian tenderloin, a chicken brisket grill, Mignon filet)
Pork chop, larded a bacon and garlic, are pickled in beer, honey, sweet-scented herbares and baked wholly. Australian Tenderloin, Mignon filet and chicken brisket. The sauce of «Bordeaux» on the basis of red wine and Provencal herbares and «Peper» sauce with the Madagascan pepper are given separetely.

Pork chop brisket-grill on five stones
Pork chop, larded a bacon and garlic, is pickled in beer, honey, sweet-scented herbares and baked wholly. Given with salad with tomatoes, Crimean onion and basilick.

Assortment of sausages of own preparation
Turkey sausages with the dried tomatoes and basilickl, hen with macarelloy and spinach, beef with cognac and sweet-scented herbares given with the sauce of «Barbecue» and salad with tomatoes, Crimean onion and basilick.

Steaks
The tasting dish of steaks is added in a new season – the guests of restaurant will get possibility to compare taste qualities of «New York» steaks from three countries-producers of meat: Ukraine, USA, Australia. In spite of the fact that for the production of steaks grow the bull-calves of two breeds – «Aberdin-angus» and «Khareford», taste and texture of meat differs substantially. Steaks are given with peper sauce.

Restaurant «SOHO» would like to pay guests’ attention to the followings moments:
- All products, in particular green-stuffs, salads and greenery for us are most fresh, are bought every day.
- Such products as olive oil, vinegar of «Bal'zamik», Parma, Parmesan are super supplied straight from Italy.
- Australian steaks we get from the factory of «Meltik», 90% the products of which exported to Japan.
- All fish from new menu will be only frappe.
- Our cooks will execute any special order and will take into account any wishes of our guests.

One of favorite holidays of Americans is Thanksgiving Day, which is traditionally marked on fourth Thursday of November. A holiday is full of traditions. A few generations of one family gathering in a house of grandparents for the festive table Everybody pronounces the words of gratitude for all good, that happened in his life. Many dishes became not only tradition but also symbols of holiday: turkey, pickled in whisky, honey, mustard and sweet-scented herbares with a cranberry sauce and gratenom from a pumpkin with a clary. Bright young pumpkins, ears of the "Indian" corn, apples, oranges, chestnuts, nuts, dry leaves and clusters of vine, hangings down from a dish as if from the horn of plenty, not only serve as the traditional decoration of table but also show the plenty of autumn gifts of nature.

On November, 27 the restaurant of «SOHO» invites you to taste a festive turkey on Thanksgiving Day. In this day we offer you to feel the comfortable festive atmosphere of our restaurant, music in style Bluesand taste the best festive dishes of traditional menu from our chief-cook. Also, you get possibility to order for a home supper a dish from a turkey in author execution of chief-cook of restaurant!

On November, 20 the Season of Beaujolais Nouveau starts, that is the first French wine of new harvest. Beaujolais Nouveau cheers up, twirls a head and gives the banger of emotions. This holiday, arising up in France, is now selebrated all over the world. Our restaurant also pay attention to the opening of new season. In fact the wine culture in «SOHO» is on very high level and restaurant winy map is one of the best in town. Also in this season our restaurant extends the line of Californian Wines.
Restaurant «winy tower» which is located at the entering in a restaurant, perhaps, unique, it remained without changes. This special construction for storage of wine, is able to contain more than 400 sorts of wine, impermeable and supports the special temperature and humidity. Another difference of «SOHO» from other restaurants is the special nominal boxes for storage the favorite sorts of wine and cigars, which belong to the vip-persons and permanent guests.
And, if you fear that especially pleasing you wine in our restaurant acted the limited party and can simply quickly to make off, you have possibility, to buy a necessary amount back of bottles and reserve him in one of these boxes under Your name or pseudonym. It is like a «Alley of stars».

In a new season guests of our restaurant have a pleasant surprise - during a year in a restaurant will pass the weeks of world steaks. All that will take place in «SOHO» at this time it will be self-possessed in national traditions of the countries chosen by us: Argentina week – in style of «gaucho», Japanese - will make happy by the real marble meat and stages from the Japanese theater of Kabuki, and the American in funny country style. Accordingly, the French week will be accompanied by melodious French music, and the real French mimes will entertain the guests. Another sparkle will be become by 20% discount on exclusive national wines during the national weeks. «SOHO» will help the guests to feel all tints of taste of steaks in a warm and comfortable surroundings, filling with live, quiet and melodious music.
The sophisticated cuisine of «SOHO» will satisfy any demanding gourmet and will compliment with unforgettable emotions from the visit of restaurant.

Due to the changes in the interior of «SOHO», the stage of restaurant «grew» up, became more comfortable, and due to the complete update of technical equipment a sound quality became more high and comfort. «Musical menu» of «SOHO» Continuing good tradition of evenings of «Muzyki in style of SOHO», the «musical menu» of restaurant is changed. Every day of week in «SOHO» has its own musical style: Wednesday - New-Jazz, Thursday - Blues, Friday – Latino, Saturday - Rock-&-Roll... Now every guest of the restaurant has a great opportunity to choose not only favorite dishes and also proper to day's mood musical accompaniment.
New season will present such performances as "PETER UND WOLF", "NIGHT BLOCK", "TRES DESEOS", "COUNTRY", "MORE HUANA", "FOXTROT" and other performers. List of performance you can find on our web site in chapter On Play

Press Lunch devoted to the presentation of new season and five-year anniversary of restaurant “SOHO” took place on October, 7, 2008. More than twenty representatives of MASS-MEDIA were acquainted with changes and novelties presented by the restaurant.

This day all present person could taste dishes from renewed menu of restaurant “SOHO”: «Salad with avocado and cedar nuts and rukkolla», «Duet of shrimps and mussels on grill», « Rabbit fricassee with chanterelles». And, certainly, chief-cook of restaurant Alex Chorniy presented the brand name dish of the restaurant – classic juicy, correctly prepared steak (steaks in «SOHO» is prepared exceptionally from the high sorts of meat, brought from the different countries of the world specially for this restaurant).
This time a chief-cook Alex shared the preparation secret of real steak that does not abandon indifferent not a single visitor of restaurant. By the way, due to appearance of new suppliers from the USA, Australia, New Zeeland and even Japan, «SOHO», now, has an oportunity without the loss of quality of dishes to surprise the guests more loyal price policy.

As for changes in an interior, today «SOHO» has analogues neither in Kiev nor in any other town of Ukraine. Well known Kievan architect Oleg Volosovskiy worked above the changes of interior. From now guests of restaurant will rest in arm-chairs, covered the spotted hide of cow, and plenty of dark tree, natural skin of sofas, bricking of columns, soft kovrolin in a cage creates the atmosphere of comfort.
Exactly here you will find quality and comfort, proper to «5 stars» level and make dreams come true, uniting the refined luxury and comfort.