Krakow Restaurants

Let me put you in the picture..

Advantages: Delicious food, good value, superb decor
Disadvantages: No music when we went

...music. We chose Cafe Ariel, mainly because it looked the liveliest from outside. In doing so we were choosing to ignore the reviews we had read in local restaurant guides so we were taking a chance. There are several doorways so we weren't sure where to go in, especially as earlier we had seen some customers go in one door only to be escorted out of the building and to another entrance by a staff member. However, we entered through the left hand ...
...until later I learned that Cafe Ariel also calls itself a gallery. Elaborate menorah stood on the piano beside our table and on the huge marble mantelpiece. It was like dining in some cosy and slightly formal drawing room. There were very decorative light fittings and big urns of flowers wherever there was space. I was glad I was sitting in one place and not having to negotiate all this stuff with trays of food! The menu was fairly extensive but ...

fizzytom 21.12.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Cafe Ariel, Krakow

Curry in Krakow!

Advantages: It's curry; the mango lassi; good portions
Disadvantages: Freezing toilet; paying a premium for the location; a little shabby

...check whether another restaurant, the Indus Tandoori, was open on Sundays and go there for a leisurely lunch before we had to go to the airport. The Indus is in the heart of Krakow just footsteps from the Rynek Glowny, the main market square. From the outside the restaurant isn't very eye-catching in spite of some twinkling lights and bright colours; there are lots of shops on the same street and the restaurant struggles to compete for attention. ...
...than it. Did the Indus pass the naan bread test? Wherever you go - even at different places in the UK - people produce naan bread that is very different; I usually find in central and eastern Europe that the naan bread is limp and flat, sometimes with toasted seeds scattered on the top, very different from the big, airy things we get in the UK. These ones were somewhere in the middle and were pretty tasty and not at all greasy as they can often ...

fizzytom 14.12.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Indus Tandoor, Krakow

Inn of the Seventh Happiness

Advantages: Delicious food, reasonable prices, cherry vodka
Disadvantages: Not one in Newcastle!

...when first I ate at Chlopskie Jadlo in Krakow, I was unwittingly eating at what is a growing chain of Polish restaurants. I won't go too much into the history of the chain (you can read all about it on their website), suffice to say that this is an enterprise directed towards tourism but with a strong intent to provide quality food both in the restaurants and for catering at national and international events. We have now visited twice; the first ...
...well geared up for tourists Chlopskie Jadlo does not really take advantage. On our first visit we spent in the region of £18.00 for lunch for two - including drinks; this seemed pretty reasonble given the ingredients and the fact that we weren't charged for the sizeable hunk of delicious bread and it's accompaniments. We would undoubtedly have paid more for this food in London and still considered it good value. On our recent visit we paid about ...

fizzytom 21.10.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Chlopskie Jadlo (Peasant kitchen), Krakow

Stalin would be turning in his mausoleum!

Advantages: Cheap - not that it helps
Disadvantages: All food tasted the same, menu too complicated

...more authentic. The price for our disappointing meal came to 57 PLN (£12.70) and you might say that we should hardly complain. However, you can eat well quite cheaply in Poland so I think my complaints are valid. Gruzinskie Chaczapuri ul. Florianska 26, Krakow http://www.chaczapuri.pl/index.php ...

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Review of Gruzinskie Chaczapuri, Kraków