Eating on Crimea

When travelling in Ukraine, don't expect gourmet-experiences (except if you run into a an exceptional run down joint in the Carpatian mountains on the way to Bukovel where they serve the best shashlik ever! "Café Kafka").
So we were not hoping for much.

But we discovered some places, where you take off your shoes to sit up high on cushions at a very short table, surrounded by water pipes and Tartar food. Such a new experience, we really enjoyed it.
The first such place was on Ai Petri mountain, just before boarding the gondola down to the valley. The camel toilet was our highlight. Food was OK.

The other one was at the western end of the beach front in Yalta. Food was almost OK.

The most overwhelming impression on Crimea was an overload of sound in every restaurant and pub and on the street. We actually left a place early, because another bad singer had activated his microphone.
Throughout the country, we find it hard to find a restaurant without a running TV. On Crimea, they have TVs plus very loud music. So just be prepared!

The travel guide said about eating on Crimea "be prepared for bad food at totally overboard prices". We cannot confirm this. Comning from our home base in Kyiv, the food was average, prices were surprisingly low and the service was delivered with more smiles than we were accustomed to.