Kuhmistr Restaurant
Кухмистр
One of Minsk's highest-rated Belarusian restaurants, with a menu based on historical recipes from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth period.
Located at 40 Karl Marx Street. The building dates to the 1930s and was once a Komsomol canteen. The menu was compiled with historians to recreate Belarusian cuisine of the Lithuanian period. The interior is styled as a 1930s apartment, with old furniture and small period objects. Signature dishes include potato pancakes with machanka gravy, pot-roasted meat, cabbage rolls and smoked salo, plus a Belarusian tasting platter called “Без прынукі.” An English menu is available. Booking is recommended for dinner. Prices are about 60–150 Belarusian rubles per person, and it is about a 5-minute walk from Independence Square.
Opening hours
Daily 12:00–23:00
Nearby sights
- National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus
- Gorky Park
- Upper Town
- National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre of Belarus
- Holy Spirit Cathedral
- Island of Tears
- Victory Square
- Trinity Suburb