Culinary - Mundi Recra!
Right on the park you'll find the excellent restaurant "La Vie", who present you, besides the European cuisine, with many special offers or theme's. It's an absolute must during your stay.
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The Polish are epicures and they like to celebrate different occasions, preferably while enjoying delicious food and drinks. Loaded tables, beer, wine and of course vodka. The Polish cuisine was influenced by the German and Jewish cuisine. Please note: in most restaurants you need to order meat and side dishes separately.
Breakfast often starts with bread, butter, cheese and jam like we know it, but also sausages, tomatoes, pickles and eggs are served, a good breakfast is a good start of the day.
Traditionally a meal is started with a soup, mostly a hearty and rich soup with meat and mushrooms. Zurek is one of the most famous, a sour soup with egg and sausage.
A well loved ingeredient in the Polish cuisine are mushrooms, which you can pick freely in the forests. (Please note that if you wish to collect them yourselves, that you only do this under guidance of someone who really knows them, many mushrooms growing in nature are poisonous). Mushrooms often used in dishes in Poland are: cep, champignons, morels and milk caps. We recommend to try one of the delicious meaty dishes with wild mushrooms.
Next to mushrooms, Kascha is also a true Polish specialty, barley with soup meat, served as porridge or pudding, a great stuffing for your stomach. Traditionally it is a meal mostly eaten by the poorer people.
Looking at vegetables, cabbage is very popular and is processed in many dishes. Bigos is a good example of this, a stew of dried mushrooms, meat, sausage, sauerkraut, lard and cumin, also Golabki, meatrolls, rice and/or mushrooms wrapped in a cabbage leave. Galonka is another well known dish, in German also known as Eisbein mit Sauerkraut, pork served with sauerkraut.
The most loved sort of meat in Poland is sausage. The rich taste of the sausages is not only due to the herbs and spices, but the living environment of the animals. Kabanossi, a true hunters sausage, Lowiecka also a hunters sausage are well known examples/ The most famous of sausages is the Krakowska (Krakow sausage), a smoked sausage with garlic from Silesia.
Sweet delicacies are served often, as desert after a good meal, or simply during the day or with a cup of coffee (kawa), the Polish themselves prefer to drink tea. Baba (rum cake), Sernik (cheese cake) and Makowiec (poppy seed strudel) are favourites. Also a glass of Tyskie (Polish beer) or wine go down easily and no-one will refuse a glass of vodka.
