Can you remember the last time when started your day without daily cup of coffee? Do you need a caffeine fix in the morning to get you moving? Prefer Coffee Ice Cream or gourmet coffee drinks instead of plain ice cream or tea? You are true coffee fan and information below may be useful for you. And you have the chance to combine the useful with the pleasant and get wants and needs met. Coffee Fest! Just in September! So what about inviting your gorgeous Ukrainian bride to Coffee Fest and enjoying your favorite drink?

For twenty days, from 6^th to 29^th of September, the city of Lviv would receive guests at traditional Coffee Fest. Why there? Lviv has always been famous as the city of coffee, with hundreds of small coffee houses, coffee bars and coffee shops. Lviv coffee together with Turkish coffee, Greek frappé coffee and Irish coffee has been a classical receipt of method of preparing this delicious drink. But the true Lviv coffee you can hardly make yourself at home. Lviv coffee is considered to have a unique taste different from the knaypas (the Lviv coffee houses). Every knaypa (k is pronounced) has its own famous special coffee smell and taste, so coffee may differ. The Lviv Coffee Fest 2013 would be a 20 day event in which Lviv’s cafés hosted welcome guests for three weekends dedicated to celebration of everything associated with coffee. If it is coffee, smells like coffee, relates to coffee or deals with coffee you will certainly find it here.

The Lviv coffee tradition is a rather old. The first coffee houses appeared in the seventeenth century.  However, coffee became really crazy popular only in the nineteenth century when coffeehouses turned in public places when a wide range of intellectuals, civil society and political groups, intellectuals and the students, academic communities had been gathering. Also, the founder of the first coffee houses in Vienna, Franz-Yuri Kultchytsky, was born near Lviv and remembered all native coffee traditions. In “Hof zur Blauen Flasche”, Kultchytsky’s first coffe house, he made Turkish coffee first, but he succeeded only when began to add sugar and milk to it. The sweet coffee with milk is thus often referred to as “Viennese coffee” and there is still a street named after Franz-Yuri Kultchytsky in Vienna.

During the Coffee Fest, one can take a tour through the coffee houses of Lviv and taste the special “fest” coffee, coffee drinks, buy souvenirs related to coffee. The coffee fair, a jazz concert, numerous presentations, tours and contests would take place. You can participate in original coffee receipt contest or watch the famous barristas. Use this chance to integrate the welcome amazing atmosphere of joy and general friendliness, and, of course, to participate the fest in honor of the world’s favorite drink.