Breakfast in Krakow, Poland

[Dwyer]

I was also there, of course, to eat. While in Krakow, we feasted on implausibly delicate pierogis filled with potato and mountain cheese, chanterelle mushrooms and hunks of plum sautéed in cinnamon butter. We slurped refreshing bowls of chlodnik, a chilled, buttermilk or kefir-enriched beetroot soup that is a close cousin of borscht. And we braved the notoriously long line and brusque service at Krakow’s best ice cream store for scoops of coffee and wild strawberry. But, as with just about anywhere I travel, I found breakfast in Poland to be the most memorable meal of the day.

Most mornings, our breakfast — or rather first breakfast — started with the market. Our hotel was just a few blocks from the farmer’s market at Plac Nowy, a public square that once housed Kazimierz’s kosher poultry slaughterhouse. While hardly the largest or most beloved of Krakow’s fruit and vegetable markets (that title likely belongs to the Kleparz), it was brimming with summer fruit like tiny wild strawberries and blueberries, cherries, fresh red and white currants and juicy gooseberries. In the afternoons, I would pick up a container or two of berries, and when our toddler woke up the next morning we would picnic on the hotel room floor.

Our second breakfast was a bit more civilized. Like in Israel, the morning meal in Poland is centered around vegetables, cheeses and good bread. The spread at our hotel’s cafe included tiny pickled pattypan squash, ruby tomato slices and creamy deviled eggs sprinkled with chives. Arranged on toast with a few slices of cheese (we skipped the cold cuts and kielbasa!), we enjoyed kanapki, open-faced sandwiches that are the heart of traditional Polish breakfast.

http://forward.com/food/344375/my-berry-breakfast-in-krakow/?attribution=blog-post-item-2-headline

idk if anyone is planning on going to World Youth Day at the end of the month, but maybe this article from the *Jewish Forward *can help the pilgrims find a heavy calorie laden breakfast.

For a fattening dessert: This place is said to have the best ice cream in the city of Krakow:

Lody na Starowislnej
Starowislna, Krakow 31-052, Poland

The ice cream is super delicious. The prices are super cheap. And the service is friendly. Excellent!

tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g274772-d1221177-Reviews-Lody_na_Starowislnej-Krakow_Lesser_Poland_Province_Southern_Poland.html

 

[angell1]

http://forward.com/food/344375/my-berry-breakfast-in-krakow/?attribution=blog-post-item-2-headline

idk if anyone is planning on going to World Youth Day at the end of the month, but maybe this article from the *Jewish Forward *can help the pilgrims find a heavy calorie laden breakfast.

For a fattening dessert: This place is said to have the best ice cream in the city of Krakow:

Lody na Starowislnej
Starowislna, Krakow 31-052, Poland

tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g274772-d1221177-Reviews-Lody_na_Starowislnej-Krakow_Lesser_Poland_Province_Southern_Poland.html

I am going.

first week will be in warsaw though for days in the dioceses, we are getting put up with families so I am sure they will feed us well.

then in Krakow I believe our hostel has breakfast included. will probably be a lot of what you mentioned. I am quite looking forward to it all

 

[boomerang]

Thanks for posting this. I enjoy reading about foods that are unfamiliar to me. I especially like looking at pictures of food! The kanapki mentioned sound good. Lucky are the folks who are going to World Youth Day.

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[tvknight415]

Ok, so I was last there 20 years ago, but if someone is having a hankering for good old fashioned pizza, there used to be a place right by the Hotel Saski in the Old Town area that was good.