Krakow Restaurants, a Dining Guide 

Krakow is Poland’s Mecca of Gourmets Thanks to Its Many Excellent Restaurants.

Good restaurants and various other eateries that offer quality food are found throughout the city. Yet Krakow’s historical Old Town central district seems virtually stuffed with establishments catering to all kinds of diners. Here, within easy walking distance, one discovers hundreds of restaurants, cafes, bistros, grills, pizzerias, salad bars, etc. They are lodged in every available space of the area’s old palatial residences and stately burgher houses – upstairs, downstairs, and most willingly in those vast ancient cellars. No doubt, the exquisite and picturesque period interiors are a premium. And from springtime through autumn the restaurant tables take up the streets of the mostly pedestrian precinct.

A couple of blocks south another scenic downtown district, Kazimierz famed for its past Jewish quarter, also boasts numerous eateries. And still further to the south is the city's newly established gastronomic frontier in historic Podgorze town across Wisla river.

Krakow restaurant traditions 

Krakow gastronomy has a long and glorious tradition that dates back to the famously lavish medieval and Renaissance feasts and the Baroque extravaganzas of Polish gentry gourmets. And the city’s legendary restaurants of the past two centuries are fondly remembered. Yet recent decades have brought about a genuine restaurant explosion owing to the hectic efforts of aspiring restaurateurs, native as well as immigrants.

Trends in Krakow's Restaurants 

Currently fusion cooking seems to be all the rage among the city's trendy chefs. Yet a creative adaptation of the old Polish cuisine is still in vogue. Also a revival of the local folk cookery goes on. On the other hand Far East foods, once exotic, appear staples nowadays. At the same time Krakow restaurant patrons occur enamored of fine French and Italian cuisine more than ever before. 

Good restaurants in Krakow. 

Any following information has been provided by respective restaurants on their sole responsibility.  

Cherubino restaurant
Italian and Polish cuisine. 
The restaurant is situated in a charming Alley of Doubting Thomas only few steps from Market Square. It tempts not only with excellent Italian cuisine, but with the Polish one, for which native Poles long as well. Restaurant welcomes eminent guests, without whom Cracow would surely lose its charm. Italians say: “it’s better than at home” and the native people from Cracow frequently return here with pleasure. This is the place where You can spend Your time in a genuine Cracow atmosphere: among carriages, highlander sleighs, fishermen boats from Hel peninsula, by a fireplace burning beech wood. It is a restaurant with Italian temperament. We change our menu several times a year, bearing in mind seasonal delicacies and Polish tradition. Our Guests are welcome from noon till midnight. 
Meal for two without wine - about 30 euro
Address: 15 Sw. Tomasza street.
Phone: (+48) 124294007.

CK Browar
Polish cuisine. 
Address: 7 Podwale street. 
Phone: (+48) 124292505 
Website www.ckbrowar.krakow.pl 

Corleone 
Italian cuisine 
Address: ul. Poselska 19. Phone: (+48) 124295126. Website www.corleone.krakow.pl Email corleone@corleone.krakow.pl Located on Poselska Street, a quiet strada close to the Main Square, Corleone offers great Italian fare inspired from the Sicilian town whence it derives its name name. In this elegant yet cozily appointed locale, a wealth of flavorful food is for the picking under the watchful gaze of Italy's movie stars whose photographs adorn the walls. Appetizers such as the carpaccio, or the foie gras are great precursors to homemade pasta prepared in myriad ways. Follow up with the exquisite beef sirloin or roast duck with figs, or the outstanding selection of seafood touched by a spicy Sicilian accent - the focus on quality reflected by the fact the place receives a shipment of fresh fish and seafood twice a week. The wine selection mostly from Sicily and Tuscany blends perfectly with the cuisine, and finally award-winning desserts such as the ice cream spaghetti are your light at the end off this remarkable culinary tunnel!

Eating the Krakow Way

 Polish menu
Try traditional Polish cuisine in one of Krakow's choice restaurants. Ask for regional specialties of Krakow and the Malopolska province.

Multicultural menu
French and Chinese, Italian and Breton, Mexican and Kurdish, African, Vietnamese, Indian, etc. Myriad Krakow restaurants cater to foreign tastes, are run by expats and employ exotic chefs.

Cosmopolitan menu
There is the world standard a traveled gourmet feels at home in. Krakow's best restaurants happily satisfy the worldly tastes.

Economy class
While all Krakow restaurants occur inexpensive to Western visitors, some places are even more so.

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