In 1981, at 3A Bohdana Khmelnytskoho St. a street food establishment Kyivska Perepichka opened. For over 40 years, it has been serving only one dish, Kyivska perepichka. The miracle snack, which has been the ‘calling card’ of Kyiv’s street food for so long, is a sausage in a crust made of sour bread dough and fried in a large amount of deep-frying oil.

The location of the establishment, the taste of Kyivska perepichka and the queue for these delicacies became a kind of Khreshchatyk’s ‘genius loci’. It is interesting that the appearance of the McDonald’s restaurants in Kyiv did not affect the popularity of Kyivska perepichka. Even better, a number of world gastronomic tourism guides have included this dish in the must-try list for several years in a row.