Food & drink
Grandma’s fruit and herb liqueurs, proper vodka and the snacks that go with them. Not a shot-bar crawl.
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Every Polish family has a nalewka recipe: cherries, quince, walnuts or herbs left for months in spirit and sugar. In a good bar they are served like wine, with stories about where they come from.
I book a guided tasting with zakąski, the small salty snacks that make Polish drinking civilised, in a place locals take their own guests.
No. Small glasses, good food and the stories behind each bottle. You leave curious, not dizzy.
Where Krakowians buy their pickles, cheese and flowers, followed by breakfast where pensioners and students eat side by side.
Chapels, lakes and chandeliers carved out of salt, deep under the ground. Or put on a helmet for the miners’ route.
Make pierogi by hand in a real Kraków home, then sit down to soup, your pierogi and cake. Yes, Hanna is my wife.
