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One battle after another: Kyiv's historic markets lose ground to trendy food halls
The food hall development revolution spreading across Europe has reached Ukraine's historic markets. At the end of 2025, Kyiv's historic Bessarabskyi market — a more than 100-year-old, 900-square-meter brick building located at the western end of the city's main thoroughfare Khreshchatyk — was reopened as a brightly-lit, upscale food court. While the status-protected exterior remained unchanged, the market's center now features a large bar, with most of the interior converted into a dining are
