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A Dong - Far Eastern Vietnamese Chinese, ***** Brodzinskiego 3, phone 6564872
Without a doubt, the best Chinese-Vietnamese restaurant in Cracow
(for that matter, one of the best restaurants in Cracow, period).
Their Mongolian "Seafood Boiler" dish deserves special mention
(kind of a Far Eastern fondue - pieces of various seafood are cooked at
the table by the customer in a small, charcoal-heated kettle of hearty
bullion). A Dong also offers exceptional duck dishes; crispy, fried frog-legs,
and stuffed octopus. The restaurant received a "Z³ota Kawka" award nomination
from the Galician Academy of Taste (a Cracow-based restauranteurs' association)
for 1997.
Alef - Jewish, ***** Szeroka 17, phone 4213870
A not-strictly-kosher Jewish restaurant set up in one of the most
beautiful historical buildings of Krakow's Kazimierz district, with
additional accomodations a couple of doors down in the building that
once served as the area's mikvah, or ritual baths
(at 6 Szeroka street). The must-try list would have to
include gefilte fisch (stuffed carp), stuffed goose-necks,
Czulent, grape leaves, and goose livers fried with almonds and raisins.
Evenings feature live klesmer, gypsy, and Russian romantic music.
Cafe Sukiennice - Rynek Glowny 1/3, phone 4222468
Chimera - Polish, ***** Sw. Anny 3, phone 4232178 
Chimera started out as a restaurant in the street-level space of the
building it occupies to this day. A salad bar of that same name, run
by the same people, has since come to be in the cellar below. The
restaurant offers roast pork, lamb, goat, beet soup with kulebiak
(a type of stuffed pastry), tongues in Polish sauce, and excellent
home-style fruit liqueurs.
Chimera - Salad Bar - Sw. Anny 3, phone 4232178
Chimera 2 - Georgian Polish, Golebia 2, phone 4302683
Demel - Central European Polish hotel, Glowackiego 22, phone 6361600
Dworek Bialopradnicki - Polish Old Polish, Papiernicza 2, phone 4150093
El Paso - Mexican, *** Sw. Krzyza 13, phone 4213296
Typical Tex-Mex kitchen with standards like chili con carne, nachos,
tacos, burritos. Tequila seems to taste especially good in this
establishment, the interior of which is reminiscent of an old
cowboy saloon. The reason for this is probably the fact that it is
served with salt and lime and not lemon, as is
usually the case here. Several brands of Mexican beer also offered,
with the ever-popular Corona leading the pack.
Grand Hotel - Polish International hotel, Slawkowska 5/7, phone 4217255
Granica Park Hotel - Szyce kolo Krakowa, phone 4191331
Hellada - Greek, *** Krolewska 55, phone 6372086
Hotel Piast - Polish International hotel, Radzikowskiego 109, phone 6364668
Karczma Pod Blacha - Polish, Piastowska 22, phone 6383737
Kartagina - Tunesian Mediterranean, *** pl. Dominikanski 6, phone 4225227
An Arabian restaurant run by Tunisians. The locale is divided into
two parts; a self-service buffet bar, and a full-service restaurant
with waiters. The menu contains Middle-Eastern classics like:
Falafel, kebabs, brik, shalarma, spicy Merguez sausages, and several
types of cous cous. The self-service section also has a salad bar.
Klezmer Hois - Jewish, ***** Szeroka 6, phone 4111245
La Fontaine - French, Slawkowska 1, phone 4310930
Lotos - Chinese, * Czarnowiejska 8, phone 6324311
Maska - Jagiellonska 1, phone 4228020 w 131
Na Wawelu - International, **** Wzgorze Wawelskie 9, phone 4116598, 4211915
The only restaurant on the Wawel Castle hill, located in a building
erected at the beginning of the 19th century by the Austrians.
Flagship locale of the Rotarians, Na Wawelu is an all but obligatory
item on the itineraries of visiting foreign dignitaries.
Uninteresting interior; the menu has French elements to it, having
been created by a chef from that country who ran the kitchen at one
time. Excellent perch-pike carpaccio, classic and very ample
chateaubriand with terragon colbert sauce. An extensive and
professionally compiled French wine list. Pricey. Open from noon to
8 PM; one can linger as long as one likes, but you have to get there
before 8, when they close Wawel Castle and you can only leave.
Niebieski - Flisacka 3, phone 4312711
Nowina - International Polish, ***** Glogoczow, Dwor, phone 2731226
Though it's located just near the main Cracow to Zakopane highway
(or "Zakopianka", as the route is known here), it's unusually
picturesque here, the restaurant being located on the property of an
erstwhile country manor, surrounded by century-old trees. Renouned
for its cold meats, pates, lamb, vegetables (all prepared completely
by them). Unparalleled omelets with rum. Most of their
produce is grown by them locally. A recent addition to the menu is
roast pigeon, a rarity in Poland. Nowina recieved a "Zˆota Kawka"
nomination from the Galician Academy of Taste,
Orbit - Polish, Wroclawska 78A, phone 6335538
Paese - Corsican French, ***** Poselska 24, phone 4216273
A Corsican restaurant with a rustic tavern look on the inside. This
is one of the favorite dinner spots for Cracow's artistic Bohemia,
politicians, and aristocrats alike. Their guest book is literally
bursting with glowing comments and famous signatures from all over
Poland. One should try the mushrooms in bechamel sauce, garlic
soup, beef sirloin in roquefort sauce, and - absolutely - their
fresh seafood. The menu also offers Portugese-style baked sardines
and French-style deep-fried lobster. Ample wine selection at
reasonable prices, including Corsican wines. Reservations are
usually required, especially evenings and weekends.
Pizzeria Cyklop - Mikolajska 16, phone 4216603
Pod Baranem - Polish, **** Sw. Gertrudy 21, phone 4294022
Ratuszowa - International, Rynek Glowny 1, phone 4211326
Staropolskie Jadlo - Polish Old Polish, Dluga 41,
U Ziyada - Kurdish International, *** Jodlowa 13, phone 4297105
View-wise, this is Cracow's nicest restaurant/cafe location. Atop a hill
on the banks of the Vistula river in 1928, a renouned architect by the name
of Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz (renovator of the Wawel Castle) built a round villa.
During WW II the Germans erected a building styled after the Fuehrer's
alpine residence. The structures are currently owned by the Jagiellonian
University's Collegium Polonia, the restaurant and cafe are run by a
well-connected Kurdish gentleman by the name of Ziyad. A magnificent view
of the Vistula river, Tyniec and Bielany monasteries stretches out beneath
the terraces of the edifice. The menu offers Polish and, interestingly
enough, Kurdish cuisine.
U-Boot - Florianska 47, phone 4296699
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