|
Eating and drinking
|
|
|
Warsaw is one of the best places to eat in central Europe. Alongside a good smattering of
restaurants
specializing in traditional Polish cuisine, there's a welcome trend towards culinary variety - modern European and Mediterranean-influenced dishes have made their way onto most restaurant menus, and ethnic establishments offering anything from Jewish to Japanese cuisine are well established.
In the cafAŠ scene also, a wealth of new or renovated places has sprung up in the past few years, offering everything from the most calorific haunts to down-to-earth student hangouts. Cakes and pastries, worthy of the best of central Europe, are easy to come by, and if you follow the traditional local example, you'll doubtless find yourself passing many hours musing over the edge of a cup of coffee or, Russian-style, a glass of tea. And now you can surf the internet while you sup, too. Bars of all sorts are everywhere. Alongside the ubiquitous traditional "drink-bars" serving hard spirits to hard-drinking locals, there's now a wide choice of newer, Western-influenced places, serving big-name German beers and other European brands alongside an increasing range of local brews, aimed partly at the tourists, partly at the city's young and upwardly mobile. There are also "ethnic" pubs, bars in wooden ranch-type shacks in the city's parkland, theme bars and simple, friendly, unpretentious local haunts. In short, everything you need. The distinction between Warsaw's eating and drinking venues is inevitably blurred, with many of the latter offering both snacks and full meals as well as booze - so bear in mind that many of the places listed under "CafAŠs and bars" are also good places for a bite to eat Other useful information
for tourists (each section contains more specific sub-sections): |
|
Poland,
|