Fiorentina restaurant in Kraków has been named as Poland’s best at the World Culinary Awards, which are handed out annually based on a combination of expert, industry and public voting.
As well as offering a Florentine-style beefsteak that reflects its name, the restaurant specialises in Polish cuisine. Its menu includes beetroot and mushroom soups, smoked cabbage with buckwheat, and fish dishes featuring perch, trout and herring.
The restaurant’s take on a Polish classic, pierogi ruskie (Ruthenian dumplings), features not just the traditional stuffing of potato and curd cheese, but also onion sauce and caviar. Fiorentina also offers a range of Polish cheeses as well as wines from Poland’s growing viticultural industry.
The restaurant – which is located in a historical tenement house in Kraków’s medieval old town – has also received the Michelin Guide’s Bib Gourmand award and has been recognised by the Gault Millau guide, reports the Polish Press Agency (PAP).
Also shortlisted by the World Culinary Awards for Poland’s best restaurant were two others in Kraków – Bottiglieria 1881 and Zazie Bistro – and one from Warsaw, Butchery & Wine.
At this year’s awards, Uliassi in Senigallia, Italy was chosen as the best restaurant in Europe while Mayta in Miraflores, Peru was named best in the world. The World Culinary Awards are presented as a sister event to the World Travel Awards, which have been running since 1994
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Daniel Tilles is editor-in-chief of Notes from Poland. He has written on Polish affairs for a wide range of publications, including Foreign Policy, POLITICO Europe, EUobserver and Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.
