... Restaurant Polakowski (Kraków, Poland)

Few weeks ago we've visited Kraków, one of the most beautiful cities in Poland with plenty fantastic monuments, museums and romantic alleys. We've spent there two wonderful days and without any doubts we can recommend you visiting this city, you won't be disappointed. If you decide to go there you should also visit one of the "Restaurant Polakowski". They are located in 5 places in Kraków, we've been in restaurant at plac Wszystkich Świętych 10.

It's my favourite restaurant in Kraków. I knew I need to show it to Bartek.

DECOR

Inside are about 12-15 tables so you should find a free chairs without any problem. But it's very popular place so... if there won't be any free table you should be a bit patient and wait few minutes. About the place... It looks very nice and clean. And the decore is fine, based on polish folklor.

I know that the decor may seem a bit tacky, but suprisingly it fits :) Also considering such a big amount of people eating in this place... it's really clean. 

WHAT TO EAT

First - you need to try Żurek. It's a Polish specialty and I've never eaten as good Żurek as in Polakowski. It's thick and has mushrooms, sausage, bacon and can have either egg or potatoes. Beside you have a photo of half of the portion (you can buy half or full portion).

Bartek took fish soup which was also full of everything :)

For the second plate... Schabowy with french fries. Yes, schabowy. Schabowy in maxi size :)

For me delicious pierogi with strawberries. I needed to wait for them like 20 minutes but it was worth it!

The food was really good and the size of dishes were... great, just take a look at photos. :)

PRICES

Prices are very good. For the second plate you can pay less that 10 zloty. And the portion will be enough even for big guys.

Prices are really, really fine. For full two dishes for the persons we've paid only about 30-35 zloty. Absolutely great, especially if you take a look at the size of dishes.

SERVICE

"Restaurant Polakowski" is self-service place so you are choosing your meals and after few minutes you have to take your plates from the service desk. When you finished you also have to give back your plates.

And women that take the orders doesn't have a light job :) Also they often can offer you a try of the dish so you can decide.

SUMMARY

DECOR ***

WHAT TO EAT ***** 

PRICES ****

SERVICE ***

Still it's my favourite restaurant in Kraków :)

In my opinion "Restaurat Polakowski" is very nice place with great food in fantastic prices. :) If you visit Kraków and you don't want to spend a lot of money on food, you should defenitely go there.

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... Burgermeister (Berlin, Germany)

Recently we've been in Berlin for few days. A week or two before our trip we've found a great site where somebody wrote about very popular for Berliners cheap places with food. We decided that we have to go to at least one of them. And that's why we've eaten in "Burgermester".

Also as we asked our friend who live in Berlin, he said: definitely. It's great.

DECOR

It's really hard to say anything about the decor of the place because "Burgermesiter" is located in... old Berlin's public toilet (of course after renovation and adaptation). :) But I have to say that this is absolutely fantastic way to preserve small part of the history of the city. Maybe that's nothing, but this old toilets were really... stylish. ;)

I would say that decor is maximally useful. You do not sit on chairs. You sit on pipes with cushins (so you won't get too comfortable and occupy your place for too long). Some people sit on beer crates. On the tables you can find hanged bottle openers and paper towels. And that's it. Maximum usability.

[We couldn't make pictures because it's forbidden]

WHAT TO EAT

Of course you can eat there burgers! Fantastic, big and really tasty burgers. Great and well-prepared meat, fresh vegetables and tasty bread roll... :D You can also take fries, just fries or with some extras ingredients like meat with chili peppers. To drink: beer.

The burgers were AWESOME. Juicy meat, very good sauce and cheese. We also took beer and chillifries. Chilli fries were made with fresh and hot chilli (I needed to avoid chilli ;)) It was really good and cheesy. However I wouldn't recommend to take besides burgers (unless you are starving). After we ate our burgers we needed to somehow squeeze in the fries and still we managed to eat only 3/4 of it.

PRICES

As I remember the prices were fine, they didn't destroy our wallets. :)

The prices were reasonable however you should count like 3-5 euro for a burger and 2-3 euro for chilli fries. We payed for 2 burgers, half of the fries and beer AFAIR 13 euro.

SERVICE

Service had really much to do. The line was long and people were hungry. Also they managed to clean the tables.

I don't know what to write, because I've only taken our food when it was ready. ;)

SUMMARY

DECOR **** (for usability)

WHAT TO EAT ****

PRICES ***

SERVICE ***

Absolutely great place with fantastic burgers! :D

Highly recommended place for burger lovers!

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