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Cafe Dacha

Super GemDowntown Highland Park · Ukrainian / Eastern European Community-sourced, unverified
📍 675 Central Ave, Highland Park, IL 60035

Cafe Dacha is doing something almost nobody else on the North Shore attempts: real, homemade South Ukrainian and Eastern European cooking, built on family recipes rather than a fusion gimmick.

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A real South Ukrainian / Eastern European kitchen in Highland Park — borscht, cabbage rolls, and beef stroganoff from family recipes, rated 4.9 on OpenTable across 220-plus reviews.

The borscht, cabbage rolls, and beef stroganoff come up again and again in reviews, and a 4.9 rating across 220-plus reviews on OpenTable isn't the kind of number a gimmick restaurant puts up. The dining room is small and quiet — more neighborhood dacha than big-city restaurant — with a genuinely lovely outdoor patio that becomes the better seat the moment the weather cooperates. Executive chef Pavel Kostenko runs the kitchen, and the bar pairs select wines and handcrafted cocktails with the food rather than treating drinks as an afterthought.

There's a lunch service Tuesday through Thursday in addition to dinner nightly except Monday, which is unusual range for a restaurant this specialized. No discount or happy-hour special exists here, and there's no need to invent one — the pitch is simply honest Slavic home cooking, done well enough that it's become a genuine Highland Park destination on reputation alone.

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Cafe Dacha

Super Gem
Borscht, Cabbage Rolls & Beef Stroganoff
Downtown Highland ParkCommunity

Hours

Lunch Tue-Thu 10 AM-2 PM; Dinner Tue-Thu 4-8:30 PM
Fri-Sat4-9:30 PM
Sun4-8 PM; Mon Closed
📅 Reserve on OpenTable 🥡 Takeout unconfirmed 📞 224-400-3767

Amenities & accessibility

📅Reservations accepted
❔Takeout: unverified
❔Wheelchair access: unverified
☀️Outdoor seating available

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