Here is a little helper guide about the most popular dishes you can find in Krakow’s restaurants.
It will be rather impossible to try all of them during the short stay in our City, but pick up and eat as many as you like. Satisfaction guaranteed!
1. Zupa grzybowa w chlebie – mushroom soup served in a pot made of bread
- the best is served in Hawełka and Bohema
2. Barszcz czerwony – beetroot soup
- served with little dumlings (z uszkami) or with crocquette filled with minced meat or mushroom and cabbage Alter Ego, Siwy Dym (Rabka near Krakow)
3. Żurek – Polish traditional sour soup made of acid sour.
There are variations of the soup – it can be prepared with mushrooms, with egg and ham or with saussage. It is also prepared for the typical Polish Easter breakfast! – Chłopskie Jadło, Dworek Mikołąj – Wadowice
4. Zupa pomidorowa – tomato soup – usually served with noodles
- the best at Jarema
5. Kwaśnica - cabbage soup served with sausage or pork ribs
- Ogniem i Mieczem, Bąkowa Zohylina (Zakopane near Krakow)
6. Krupnik – barley soup
- Bohema
7. Zupa cebulowa – onion soup
- Wentzl
8. Pierogi – Polish dumplings
- there are three kinds: filled with minced meat and onion, filled with potatoes and cottage cheese, filled with mushroom and cabbage – Chłopskie Jadło, Ogniem i Mieczem
9. Żeberka – pork ribs -
usually served with acid cabbage – Ogniem i Mieczem, U Babci Maliny
10. Schab ze śliwką – roast pork meat filled with plum
- Bohema
11. Kaczka z jabłkami – roast duck served with apple
- Wierzynek
12. Kotlet wieprzowy – pork cutlet
- Alter Ego, U Endziora (this is a little stand in Kazimierz district)
13. Gołąbki – cabbage leaves filled with rice and minced meat
- Hawełka
14. Bigos
- traditional Polish noble dish that is still prepared for Christmas or New Year’s Eve. Still before the WWII it was prepared in the occasion of haunting. It is chopped cabbage cooked for a long time together with different kind of meat, plums, species and red wine – Szlacheckie Jadło
15. Pstrąg – trout
- usually fried or baked in oven, served with melted butter and salvia – Alter Ego, Dworek Mikołaj ( Wadowice near Krakow )
16. Oscypek z boczkiem – highlander’s cheese served with bacon
- Kawaleria
17. Karp – carp
- one of traditional Polish Christmas Eve dishes, served fried.
18. Placki ziemniaczane
- potato pancakes – served with goulash, with mushroom sauce, with acid cream or solo – good at many places.