The outskirts of empires have advantages: sometimes they can preserve the kind of perfection abandoned by the modern life. Here in Lvivska Cukiernia the world meets the divine mix of different pastry traditions — Austrian, Polish, Hungarian, Jewish, Czech, Italian, and Ukrainian, all of them with a slight scent of the Middle East at roots. The perfection had been polished during centuries, and delicious pastry emerged when elegance and luxury of restaurants set the pace for even more than modest way of life.

Even when European cities plunged into darkness, and the beauty of good old days became just a memory of belle époque, the home kitchens kept the gleam of city lights and brought hand down to our times the tastes, scents, and sights of the Lvivska Cukiernia we know.