Kraków is the home to the country’s only 2 Michelin star restaurant, Bottiglieria 1881, crowned in 2023 to great acclaim. Here Chef Przemysław Klima draws deep on the culinary soul of Poland, and his childhood memories of perfect rural summers, to offer dishes such as pickled beetroot, apple-wood smoked trout and a sauce made from of the milk of walnuts, bison grass and seaweed oil. Whilst Bottiglieria 1881 sets a gourmet bar, there is a good range of restaurants in town which allow the visitor to enjoy simple classics such as chłodnik, a deliciously pink, chilled beetroot and yogurt summer soup or a plate of pierogi ruskie, dumplings of white cheese and potato, fried crisply and served with bacon cubes and sour cream.
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