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.

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 famed restaurants of the past two centuries are fondly remembered. Yet the recent decade has 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 a creative adaptation of the old Polish cuisine seems 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. 

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Amadeus restaurant 
Refined, in the Baroque style.
European and Polish cuisine. 
Meal for two without wine - about 36 euro
Address: 20 Mikolajska Street (Old Town)
Phone: (+48) 124230340 
Email: restauracja-amadeus@janpol.com.pl Website: www.restauracja-amadeus.pl  

Á San Sebastian Restaurand & Cafe
Excellent Restaurant in the Kazimierz district with summer garden and cosy room with a fireplace, with the unique climate of old Cracow and a cosy art nouveau interior with unusual collection of old coffee mills. If you want to relish the smells of dishes, feast your eyes on these sights and feel absolutely satisfied after your meal you are welcome to San Sebastian - The Best Med` and European cuisine. San Sebastian invites from 8am for Breakfast-both traditional or vegetarian, Lunch with delicious salads and carafes of wine, Suppers with original dishes by the chef and for evening drinks. We recommend excellent Italian coffee, flavored as well, with homemade whipping cream. Friendly service, good music, delightful food and high quality selected Wines. Strolling between the Rynek Glowny square and the Kazimierz it's difficult to omit this Restaurant.  
Meal for two without wine - about 20 euro
Address: 25 Sw. Sebastiana street.  
Phone: +48(12) 4292476 
www.sansebastiancafe.com 

Balaton restaurant
Hungarian cuisine.
Meal for two with wine - about 15 euro
Address: 37 Grodzka Street. www.balaton.krakow.pl
Phone: 4220469, fax: 4213097. 
email: restauracja@balaton.krakow.pl 

Cafe & Restaurant Sukiennice 
Polish cuisine
Address: Rynek Glowny 1/3. Phone: (+4812) 4222468. Fax: (+4812) 4231099. Email: info@cafe-sukiennice.krakow.pl Website: www.cafe-sukiennice.krakow.pl Superbly situated in the landmark Cloth Hall, with a view of the Town Hall Tower and the Rynek Glowny grand square, it creates original atmosphere and perfectly reflects the unique climate of Krakow’s Old Town. In summertime there is a pavement cafe for 500 in the Rynek Glowny square. The restaurant interior consists of five, originally arranged rooms that together seat 100. Each room has separate entry and glass front wall with a view of the Rynek Glowny. Excellent Polish cuisine attracts inhabitants of old Krakow as well as tourists who want to taste old Polish specialties: the Krakow sop, chanterelle sauce, bigos stew, and zur sour soup. Pleasant, nice, and expert staff guarantees indelible and warm memories of old Krakow. 
Meal for two without wine – 20 euro 

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!

Cracovia hotel restaurant
Polish cuisine.
Meal for two without wine - about 30 euro
Address: 1Focha Avenue
Phone: (+48) 124228666 ext. 693 

Kryjowka Music Club & Restaurant
Polish cuisine 
Mediaeval cellar with wooden elements in style. Splendid kitchen, particularly grill dishes. Abundant meals and many different attractions. You can visit website below. 
Address: 11 Slawkowska street. 
Phone: (+48) 124312719 
Website: www.kryjowka.krakow.pl 
Email: kryjowka@kryjowka.krakow.pl 

Nostalgia restaurant 
Nostalgia is cooking with fantasy: traditional Polish cooking as well as dishes for explorers of new flavors. Atmospheric interior with fireplace and a cozy summer garden. Next to Krakow’s Old Town historical district. You are welcome! Open from noon to 11 p.m. 
Meal for two without wine - about 20 euro
Address: 10 Karmelicka street. www.nostalgia.krakow.pl 
Phone: (+48) 124254260 
Email: nostalgia@nostalgia.krakow.pl  

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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