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Veselka is a Ukrainian 24-hour restaurant in New York City’s East Village.It was established in 1954 by post-World War II Ukrainian refugees Wolodymyr and Olha Darmochawal and is one of the last of the many Slavic restaurants that once proliferated the neighborhood. A cookbook published in October 2009 by St. Martin’s Press highlights more than 120 of the restaurant’s Eastern European recipes.A sister restaurant Veselka Bowery on East 1st Street and Bowery opened in November 2011.