Lunch, diner, ijs, etc

Bij een goede vakantie hoort voor mij ook het genieten van lekker eten en drinken. En laat dat in Krakau nou helemaal geen probleem zijn.

Hier volgt een overzichtje van de leuke adresjes waar ik wel heen zou willen gaan voor een lunch, diner, een lekker ijsje, kop koffie etc.

Lunch & Diner:

HRC Krakau

Located in the UNESCO World Heritage Market Square, next door to the most famous church in Poland, St. Mary’s Basilica, Hard Rock Krakow will inspire your taste buds to greatness with delicious food, signature cocktails, and the hottest live entertainment in Poland. With room for 130 guests over three spacious floors, our restaurant welcomes locals and tourists alike for delectable dining, top notch entertainment, and unforgettable events. After a delicious meal of American fare, take a stroll through musical history with iconic pieces of memorabilia you can only find at Hard Rock Cafe Krakow.

Adres:
Main Market / Mariacki Square 9
31-042 Kraków, PL
Open: 10:00 – 00:00uur / 01:00uur

La Grande Mamma

La Grande Mamma, located in the Main Square, at the corner of St. Anna and Wiślna streets, is now open. In a 17th century building with beautiful vaults and antique portals, we have created a place where one can taste the authentic Italian cuisine in beautiful interiors and friendly atmosphere. It is here, in our open kitchen, that sweet treats and thin crust pizza are being baked in plain view of our guests. We want dishes served at La Grande Mamma to be a delight for all senses, therefore we care not only for their authentic Italian flavour, but also for the way of serving them, for an appropriate choice of wines for every dish, and that our menu be diverse in terms of flavours and preferences of the guests. Our Head Chef, Robert Koczwara, guarantees the highest quality of food and creates the menu, just like he has been doing since the beginnings of Mamma Mia!, our first Italian restaurant. Our managers, with whom we have worked for years, care especially for the well-being of our honourable guests.

La Grande Mamma is a special place in many ways: it has wonderful sights on the Krakow Main Square, intimate and friendly interiors, excellent service, perfect selection of wines, and, last but not least, fantastic food, which is the most important thing we work on every day.

Adres:
Rynek Główny 26
31-008 Kraków, PL
Open: 12:00 – 23:00uur

Pub Galeria Wręga

Pub-Galeria Wręga is located in the touristically attractive Kazimierz district. The historic interiors welcome visitors with medieval brick walls and stylish wooden ceilings. There are numerous art exhibitions held on the premises, while good acoustics makes for a perfect place for a live concert, too.
Wręga specialises in traditional cuisine, with a good selection of beer and other drinks complementing the menu. We also have one of the largest and most beautiful beer gardens in Kazimierz, as well as one smoking room.

Adres:
Józefa 17
31-055 Kraków, PL
Open: 12:00 – 23:30uur / 01:00uur

Bunkier Cafe

Bunkier Cafe is one of a kind – with a garden in the middle of the Planty Gardens open all year round. The transparent walls are open in warm weather, and lowered when it’s cooler.
You could order a delicious coffee or an exceptional unpasteurised draught beer. You could also order a salad, a burger or a slice of delicious cake. In summer there’s also ice cream.

Adres:
pl. Szczepański 3a,
31-000 Kraków, PL
Open: 09:00 – 00:00uur

2 Okna Cafe

Next to the High Synagogue, this charming and artistic cafe presents an ideal place to idly pass the time, catch up with a friend, or get caught up on work. With no less than four seating areas to choose from, from the sunny streetside tables to the cool, green garden in the back (certainly one of the best places in town to disappear with a coffee and a book), in between is a gallery space with an avant garde angle. As such, vernissages occur often, as do concerts – check FB to see what’s o n.
The menu offers a humble array of breakfast bites (Cracovian bagels with hummus, shakshuka, fried eggs, quiche, oatmeal, cakes and pastries), tapas and Spanish empanadas, plus fresh-squeezed juices, smoothies, wine, coffee and beer; catch a live piano recital every Tues morning. Overall there’s a very low-key, friendly and international atmosphere to this place.

Adres:
Józefa 40,
31-056 Kraków, Polen
Open: 10:00 – 23:00uur

Restauracja Polska

Een geweldig leuk klein traditioneel Pools restaurant, midden in de Joodse wijk Kazimierz. Je kunt hier echt een keur aan verschillende traditionele Poolse gerechten krijgen, van soep en kaas tot aan worst en vlees.
Je kunt hierbij genieten van lokaal gestookte vodka of lokaal gebrouwen bier.
De bediening is erg vriendelijk en spreekt goed engels.

Adres:
Meiselsa 22
31-058 Kraków, PL
Open: 12:00 – 22:00uur

Cafe Oranżeria

’s Avonds kun je in het restaurant Cafe Oranżeria dineren op de 7e verdieping, vanwaar je een prachtig panoramisch uitzicht over Krakau hebt. Het vriendelijke personeel helpt graag om een stedentrip naar Krakau nóg plezieriger te maken. En de reis kan eigenlijk al niet meer stuk op zo’n mooie locatie: zicht op de rivier de Wisla, slechts 600 meter van het Wawel Kasteel

Adres:
Plac Kossaka 1
33-332 Kraków, PL
Open: 13:00 – 22:00uur

ORZO Restauracja

Literally a breath of fresh air in industrial Zabłocie (and next door to MOCAK and Schindler’s Factory), Orzo has transformed this large charred factory space into an urban oasis of big windows, blonde woods, green walls and potted plants that actually clean the air inside. The menu is an exciting, eclectic, fusion-flecked affair full of fresh salad bowls and vegan options, sandwiches and burgers, pizza, pasta and steaks – everything from Prosecco shrimp to lime quinoa salad – and the house orzo (rice-shaped pasta) adds colour to certain dishes to great effect. There’s lots of seasonal outside seating, daily specials and promotions, and on weekends they even have organised activities for kids (13:00-18:00). Overseen by a large team of young, attentive staff, the space is subtly divided between restaurant and bar, with a lively after-work atmosphere around the large bar as DJs take the decks early on weekends, laying down fluid grooves as upstarts from the local start-up scene drink smoked cocktails, sweet mocktails, boozy infusions, custom lemonades, veggie smoothies and more. Full of bright smiles and bouncy music, Orzo balances smart urbanity with joie de vivre in a way we didn’t realise we were missing until we stepped inside.

Adres:
Lipowa 4A
30-702 Kraków, Polen
Open: 17:00 – 00:00uur

Forum Przestrzenie

Opening in the formerly abandoned, monstrous and much-maligned Forum Hotel, Forum Przestrzenie immediately vaults itself to the top of the list of Kraków’s most original, intriguing and hip locales, without even really trying (not caring is the key to being ‘cool’ after all). The owners have simply added dozens of beach chairs, bean bags, retro sofas and a bit of graffiti art to the original interiors and vintage neon signs of the reception area, assembled a competent kitchen to create stellar sandwiches, salads and pizzas, stocked the bar with good beer, and watched the talented, tattooed post-college crowd (“hipsters” you might call them) turn this vast riverside cafe/bar/bistro into one of the trendiest places to be day or night. With great views and plenty of space, when it’s warm their huge terrace is sprawling with beach chairs, while inside there’s enough room for ping-pong tables. With regular events, weekend DJ parties and the Hala Forum food market next door, there’s no dispute that Forum is Kraków’s top riverside hangout spot.

Adres:
Marii Konopnickiej 28
30-302 Kraków, Polen
Open: 10:00 – 00:00uur / 02:00uur

http://www.forumprzestrzenie.com/
https://www.facebook.com/forumprzestrzenie
https://www.twitter.com/forum_krk
https://www.instagram.com/forumprzestrzenie
https://www.inyourpocket.com/krakow/forum-przestrzenie_118834v
https://www.likealocalguide.com/krakow/forum-przestrzenie

Ogniem i Mieczem

If you dream of being transported back to the seventeenth century, to the resplendent rusticity of the old Commonwealth borderlands – where the textures, colours, tastes and music of Polish, Lithuanian and Ukrainian culture collide – then Ogniem i Mieczem is for you.

Guests are invited to sit down to a traditional feast in one of four exquisitely recreated rooms, to the strains of old Polish, Lithuanian and Ukrainian folk music and a crackling fire in the hearth. The walls and corners are adorned with heavy skillets, sheaves of hay, old wooden tools and household instruments, including a spinning wheel, churns and even a hussar’s suit of armour. Rough wooden tables and benches are lit by thick candles in pewter candlesticks and heavy iron candelabra. Animal skins are stretched taut under old portraits. Even the waitresses’ attire is a work of costume art taken straight out of Sienkiewicz’s book.

Adres:
Pl. Serkowskiego 7
30-512, Podgorze, Polen
Open: 13:00 – 22:00uur

http://www.ogniemimieczem.pl/
https://www.facebook.com/restauracjaogniemimieczem
https://www.myguidekrakow.com/restaurants/ogniem-i-mieczem
https://www.inyourpocket.com/krakow/Ogniem-i-Mieczem_16794v

Wodka Bar Krakow

Poles take their vodka seriously, and this tiny enclave takes it more seriously than most by offering some 100 different flavours – from chocolate to chili, earl grey to blackthorn (Tarninówka). A great place to participate in Poland’s favourite past time by grabbing a shot on the go, the atmospheric lofted interior would be cosy (and sometimes is on weekday afternoons) if it wasn’t full of loud tourists. If you’re able to score a table, share a sampling raft of 6 or more shots with your friends; just don’t make plans for the following day.

They will serve you (almost) every liquor that deserves tasting. Specialised in world famous polish vodkas.

Adres:
Mikołajska 5
31-027 Kraków, Polen
Open: 16:00 – 00:00uur (Alleen vrijdag t/m zondag)

Ijs:

Tiffany

In stare miasto vind je een walhalla van ijsjes bij Tiffany op Plac Szczepański. Het ijssalon wordt uitgebaat door een Pools-Perzisch koppel en dat vertaalt zich in de smaken: Saffraan, kaneel-gember, pompoenpitten, cashewnoten, groene thee.. Maar ook de meer traditionele smaken zijn heerlijk.

Adres:
Plac Szczepański 7
31-011 Kraków, PL
Open: 11:00 – 21:00uur

Donizetti

Ook de ijsjes bij Donizetti zijn niet te versmaden. De naam verraadt het al: de Italiaanse eigenaar importeert producten uit zijn thuisland om er in Krakow de betere ijsjes van te maken. Ook hij is creatief: kastanjesoep, komkommer en rijstdessert…in een bolletje ijs. Naast ijsjes serveert Donizetti ook pannenkoeken, wafels, sapjes en shakes.

Adres:
ul. Św. Marka 23
31-020 Kraków, PL
Open: 11:30 – 19:30uur / 20:00uur op zat. & zon.

Good Lood

Een nieuwkomer op de ijsjesmarkt is Good Lood (spreek uit: Goed loed en “loed” betekent hier ijs), en wat voor één! Deze nieuwe ijsjeszaak brengt een kleine aardschok teweeg in Krakau’s ijsjesparadijs. Het ijs is er fantastisch lekker, vers, elke dag anders. Traditionele en exotische smaken (denk: roze Himalayazout!) bij de vleet, smaken die niet te zoet zijn, romig en zacht en toch expressief,… wat wil je nog meer?

Adres:

Good Lood Kazimierz	Good Lood Podgórze	Good Lood Zabłocie
Plac Wolnica 11 31-060 Kraków Open: 11:00 – 22:00uur	ul. Nadwiślańska 11 33-332 Kraków Open: 11:00 – 22:00uur	ul. Romanowicza 4 30-702 Kraków Open: 11:00 – 22:00uur

Lody si Gela

Aan de andere kant van de rivier in Podgórze vind je meer waanzinnige ijsjes met bizarre smaken bij Lody si Gela, op een boogscheut van de voetgangersbrug. Wat dacht je van een bolletje “mozzarella met basilicum”, “gember” “donker bier van een lokale kleine brouwerij”? Alle smaken worden ter plaatse en met verse plantaardige ingrediënten gedraaid. Naast roomijs is er ook een enorme keuze aan sorbets, gaande van kruisbes tot wortel en alle meer traditionele smaken daartussenin. Lodi Si Gela vat het zelf mooi samen: ‘Het leven is als een ijsje,… geniet ervan voordat het smelt’.

Adres:
ul. Staromostowa 1
30-506 Kraków, PL
Open: 11:00 – 22:00uur / Zat. & Zon. 10:00 – 22:00uur

Meer over de beste plaatsen voor het lekkerste ijs in Krakau lees je hier: