Restaurants in Pomerania
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Kuranty
The menu is firmly based on the three Ps: pizza, pasta and pierogi (including a rather tasty baked version which looks suspiciously like the Italian calzone). Random photos and extraordinary Art Nouveau lights add to the atmosphere. Be warned: sports-playing TVs hang off the walls.
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Green Way
Folksy blue-and-yellow space serving vegetarian and organic dishes ranging from soy cutlets to Mexican goulash. As the ultimate accolade, even nonveggies come to eat here. There’s another, more central, branch at ul Długa 11.
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Restauracja Pod Łososiem
Founded in 1598 and particularly famous for its salmon dishes, this is one of Gdańsk’s oldest and most highly regarded restaurants. Red leather seats, brass chandeliers and a gathering of gas lamps fill out the sombre interior. The speciality drink here is Goldwasser, a thick, sweet liqueur with flakes of gold floating in it, and invented and produced in its cellars from the end of the 16th century till the outbreak of WWII.
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Rozmaryn
It may be the most pricey restaurant in town, but there’s a reason – the Italian food served here is excellent, as is the tasteful décor. In addition to the soups, pastas and salads, there are more exotic dishes such as curries. Service and presentation is top class, and there’s a way to enjoy it without breaking the budget: dine here between 1pm and 5pm on weekends, when all the dishes are discounted by 50%.
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Gospoda Pod Wielkem Młynem
A sure-fire tip for summer, this charming half-timbered building behind the Great Mill has the city’s best restaurant garden, straddling the tip of an island on the Radunia Canal. Romantics will lap up the secluded atmosphere, surrounded by shady trees and rustic wagon wheels. There’s also a cheaper snack menu with Polish standards such as bigos (sauerkraut dish, see boxed text, p61; 5zł).
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Restauracja Kubicki
This family firm has served solid, tasty Polish food from its waterfront location since the last days of the German Empire in 1918, making it Gdańsk’s oldest continuously operated restaurant. There’s plenty of fresh fish on the menu, priced by weight, and a wide-ranging wine list including several Bulgarian drops. There’s a great river view from the outdoor seating.
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Karczma Polska Pod Kogutem
The rustic barn look is enduringly popular with restaurants serving traditional Polish food, and Karczma Polska doesn’t disappoint – there’s even a mock pigsty on the way downstairs to the toilets. Its external wooden deck is a great vantage point over the picturesque square opposite, and the menu offers plenty of options. Roast rabbit in hazelnut sauce, anyone?
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Pannekoekenrestaurant Haga
Haga specialises in very filling Dutch pancakes – over 400 varieties of ’em, served up in a dining room decorated with old wall clocks and porcelain plates. There’s also soup served within a bread loaf, which can be eaten afterwards – don’t try to tackle both this and a pancake unless you’re ravenous.
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Rooster
Feast on burgers, shawarmas, salads and pastas at reasonable prices, though the proprietor has unfortunately issued the waitresses with shiny red shorts about six sizes too small. Sit outside and watch the tourist hordes go by, or stay within and marvel at the barn-like Texan diner interior, decorated with number plates and telephone poles.
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Hana
Japanese food has arrived in Poland, muscling aside the older Chinese and Vietnamese outlets. This restaurant presents a selection of quality sushi and sashimi in a compact space lined with rice-paper screens. The set menus (90zł to 150zł) include several courses and are better value than ordering à la carte.
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Bar Mleczny Słoneczny
Surprisingly light and airy, within a pale yellow interior studded with curious pillars, this classic Cold War-era milk bar serves cheap but tasty Polish staples. The menu is vegetarian-friendly, and there’s a good selection of soups and naleśniki (crepes). Enter from ul Władysława IV.
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Piwinica Rajców
The gods are smiling on this excellent cellar-restaurant, near the Neptune fountain and below a striking entrance topped by a statue of the god Mercury. The menu features some of the finest Polish cuisine to be had in Gdańsk, particularly its wild boar, and extends to more exotic dishes like springbok fillet.
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Kansai
You’d expect to find fish in a seaport, but Kansai adds an exotic twist by serving sushi in full-on Japanese ambience. Waiters are dressed in traditional robes, there’s a samurai sword on the counter, and the menu has dishes made from tuna, salmon and butterfish, along with classic California rolls.
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Gospoda Pod Modrym Fartuchem
This atmospheric 15th-century eatery on the New Town Sq modestly claims to be ‘probably the oldest restaurant in the world’, and has served Polish kings and Napoleon. Polish standards are joined by more adventurous choices involving tortillas and Indian spices, on the vegetarian-friendly menu.
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Restauracja Piwniczka
Situated in an atmospheric cellar beneath the west wall of the castle, facing the river, this restaurant dishes up excellent, flavoursome Polish standards along with specials like Castle’s Pot Soup (pork and mushroom) and The Knight’s Plate (two kinds of pork and a chicken shashlik).
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Restauracja Bombay
This would be quite a treat in any country – quality Indian food, including items such as thali meals, served in tastefully exotic surrounds by waiters with impeccable English. It’s owned by a former Miss India (1973 vintage), and boasts an appropriately international wine list.
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Pub Kinski
The house and birthplace of legendary German actor and psychopath Klaus Kinski has been converted into an offbeat bar-restaurant, with film posters and decadent crimson tablecloths within a cosy, candle-lit setting. The man himself probably would have trashed the place, but in a loving way.
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Restauracja Gdańska
Eating here is a memorable experience: the five banquet rooms and salons are crammed to the rafters with antique furniture, paintings, model ships, random objets d’art and nimble waiters in epaulettes. The upper-end traditional cooking makes a visit doubly worthwhile.
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Restauracja Pueblo
Next to Bar Mleczny Słoneczny and entered from ul Władysława IV, this eatery dishes up Tex-Mex with all the usual trappings: primary colours, funky lamps and music that really wants to be Latino. The well-executed food is an unexpected bonus.
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Prowansja
This charming eatery does a convincing impersonation of a Provence restaurant and wine bar. Quiche, crepes and salads add to the Frenchness of it all, but it’s the wine list that’s the highlight. There’s an ISIC card discount available.
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Tawerna
A historic eatery within a dark, restfully gloomy interior. It’s nautically themed, serves a Polish menu with plenty of fish, and has a great location just inside the Green Gate, which is handy for a bite between city sightseeing and river cruising.
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Bar Pod Rybą
You wouldn’t expect much from a budget eatery at the heart of the tourist trail, but this neat central bar turns out great baked potatoes with a variety of fillings. The old photos of Gdańsk give you something to look at while eating.
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Sułtan
Light, bright venue with an Arabian motif, it cooks up Middle Eastern cuisine in a space decorated with colourful lanterns. The menu contains many variants of kebabs, along with soups, salads, pizzas and a scattering of decent vegetarian options.
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Restauracja Chata
Charming place serving traditional Polish food in rustic timber surroundings, decked out with folkloric items from peasant dresses to carved mirror frames. Some interesting specials tempt the curious, like joint of boar in a wild mushroom sauce.
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Błękitny Pudel
A cosy place in the middle of the main drag, the Blue Poodle features a front room looking like an eccentric nanna’s house, decked out with a strange assortment of random objects. As an added plus it serves German Paulaner wheat beer.
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