Kraków Restaurants

  1. Arka Noego

    Arka Noego (Noah's Ark) provides the typical Kazimierz eating experience, with lacy tablecloths, candles, a scattering of antiques and a vaguely Jewish-inspired menu. Dumplings, fish and turkey are offered, along with a big drinks list, including kosher vodka. There's live music most evenings for an extra charge.

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  2. Balaton

    Balaton, with its shabby décor and uninspired wait staff, may not look inviting, but it's a very popular place for simple Hungarian food and seems to fill up quickly every night.

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  3. Bar Smaczny

    This simple place northeast of Rynek Główny claims to have the best pierogis (dumplings) in Kraków and we'll vouch for that assertion. There's a good choice of vegetarian ones.

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  4. Bar Wegetariański Vega

    Vega is an excellent, exclusively vegetarian place, serving tasty pierogi, crepes, tofu and salads in bright and pleasant surrounds.

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  5. Bombaj Tandoori

    Kraków's best curry house has a big menu of Indian standards, including vegetarian options and decent garlic naans. The lunch special is good value, and the Indian beers and teas are well worth sampling. The rickety wicker seating needs throwing out though.

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  7. Café Alef

    A number of restaurants in and around ul Szeroka offer Jewish-inspired dishes such as czulent (bean casserole with beef and vegetables), knyshe (aka knish, a dumpling with the filling of potato, ground meat, sauerkraut, onions or buckwheat groats) and stuffed gooseneck. Café Alef also features live klezmer music nightly at about .

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  8. Café Bunkier

    The 'Bunker' is a wonderful café with a positively enormous glassed-in terrace tacked onto the Bunkier Sztuki (Art Bunker), a cutting-edge gallery northwest of the Rynek. It's one of the few modern buildings in the Old Town and looks just like its name suggests.

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  9. Café Camelot

    For coffee and cake, try this genteel haven hidden around an obscure street corner in the Old Town. Its cosy rooms are cluttered with lace-covered candle-lit tables, and a quirky collection of wooden figurines featuring spiritual or folkloric scenes.

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  10. Café Manggha

    Tucked inside the Manggha Centre of Japanese Art & Technology, this airy cafe claims to serve the best sushi in town, which is no doubt correct given the scant competition here. The food is authentic, though, and there's also a big choice of Japanese teas. From the outdoor terrace you can enjoy great views of Wawel Castle.

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  11. Casa della Pizza

    As the name would suggest, this is an amenable and unpretentious place in the Little Square, away from the bulk of the tourist traffic. It has a very long menu of pizza and pasta dishes and a lovely terrace with perfect views of the Mariacki towers. The downstairs bar section is the Arabian-styled Shisha Club, serving Middle Eastern food.

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  13. Cherubino

    Cherubino, which bills itself as a restaurant and winery, offers lovely Italian dishes amid a charming, artsy interior. The antique carriages filling up the room are wonderful.

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  14. Chłopskie Jadło

    This place, a short walk south of Wawel, looks like a rustic country inn somewhere at the crossroads in medieval Poland, and serves up traditional Polish 'peasant grub' (as its name says). Live folk music is performed here on Friday and Saturday, and seating in antique sleighs adds to the rustic atmosphere. We love the żurek (sour rye) soup in a bread loaf. There's another branch in the Old Town, at ul Św Jana 3.

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  15. Ciasteczka z Krakowa

    This bakery-cum-café has some of the best cakes and pastries in Poland.

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  16. Cyrano de Bergerac

    One of Kraków's top eateries, this restaurant serves fine, authentic French cuisine in one of the most beautiful cellars in the city. Artwork and tapestries add to the romance and in warmer months there's seating in a covered courtyard.

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  17. Dawno Temu na Kazimierzu

    A number of restaurants in and around ul Szeroka offer Jewish-inspired dishes such as czulent (bean casserole with beef and vegetables), knyshe (aka knish, a dumpling with the filling of potato, ground meat, sauerkraut, onions or buckwheat groats) and stuffed gooseneck. The best of the lot Dawno Temu na Kazimierzu, a blast from the past with sewing machines on the tables and old Jewish shop signs outside.

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  19. Demmers Teahouse

    An outlet of the famous Viennese teehaus, this is the best place in Kraków for a cup of tea. It sells 130 varieties, many of which can be tried in an intimate tearoom in the 13th-century cellar of this lovely building with sgraffito.

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  20. Gospoda CK Dezerter

    Dezerter is a pleasantly decorated place that focuses on traditional, meaty Galician specialities, including Austrian and Hungarian cuisine.

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  21. Greenway

    Some of Kraków's best-value vegetarian and vegan fare is on offer at Greenway, with veggie burgers, enchiladas and salads on the menu.

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  22. Grill 15/16

    The summer courtyard garden at this busy restaurant provides an attractive atmosphere for enjoying the grilled meat, steaks and fish served here. Dishes include fresh trout roasted over volcanic lava rocks, venison and T-bone steaks and salads. There's also a small children's menu and good vegetarian options.

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  23. Gruzińskie Chaczapuri

    If you have a hankering for something a little different, this cheap and cheerful chain of Georgian restaurants with five branches in Kraków serves up grills, salads and steaks and, of course, the house speciality: cheese pie. Find it also at ul Grodzka 3.

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  25. Indus Tandoori

    By all accounts the best Indian restaurant in town, the Indus serves curries, tandoori dishes and thalis (metal trays with a selection of tasty treats), in a long narrow dining room.

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  26. Jadłodajnia

    Probably the best of the old-style restaurants serving home-style food dates back to 1934. Savoury soups and meat-and-potato dishes prevail.

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  27. Jama Michalika

    If these walls could talk… Established in 1895, this cavernous place was traditionally a hang-out for writers, painters, actors and other artistic types and the birthplace of the Młoda Polska movement. Today it's a grand, Art Nouveau restaurant with a very green interior and lots of theatrical etchings adorning the walls. The traditional Polish food is reasonable value but the compulsory coat-check and pay toilets are an annoying extra expense.

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  28. Klezmer-Hois

    A number of restaurants in and around ul Szeroka offer Jewish-inspired dishes such as czulent (bean casserole with beef and vegetables), knyshe (aka knish, a dumpling with the filling of potato, ground meat, sauerkraut, onions or buckwheat groats) and stuffed gooseneck. Klezmer-Hois also features live klezmer music nightly at about .

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  29. Kuchnia i Wino

    The name - 'Cuisine and Wine' - may not suggest this bistro has a lot of imagination, but just try one of the delightfully inspired Mediterranean dishes on the short menu such as veal with basil. We love the sky-painted ceiling and the Tuscan tones.

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