7 Best Restaurants in Warsaw

What are they, the best restaurants in Warsaw? Necessarily pathetic and expensive or modest, without pathos, but certainly with delicious and generous cuisine? Let’s try to understand this issue together and make a virtual tour of the remarkable restaurants of the Polish capital.

Pink Lobster

Seafood lovers, attention! You are invited to a stylish and trendy fish restaurant in Warsaw, which serves delicious lobsters and octopuses. By the way, all seafood is fresh: some of them can be seen alive and unharmed in a large aquarium installed right in the hall.

The restaurant menu consists of interesting seasonal dishes, including tuna tartare, cuttlefish ink pasta, and a kilogram of lobster. A real culinary hit is a local soup with shrimp, curry, and coconut milk. A pleasant final chord of a delicious dinner will be the signature Pink Lobster dessert: white chocolate ice cream with raspberries and meringue.

In the morning, the restaurant serves several types of gourmet breakfasts: Pink Lobster Breakfast (lobster toast, salmon caviar, sparkling rose wine), Classic Breakfast (smoked salmon omelet), Zieleniec Breakfast (poached eggs, smoked) trout) and others.

address: Żurawia, 6/12
Mon-Fri 9: 00-00: 00, Sat 10: 00-00: 00, Sun 10: 00-23: 00
pinklobster.pl

PiwPaw Beer Heaven

One of the 4 colorful bars in Warsaw, opened under the common name PiwPaw, is located in the center, directly opposite the Sabat Variety Theater. Here beer lovers will be delighted: 95 taps for absolutely every taste! Along with the usual porters, stouts and ales, there are original craft varieties such as chocolate or orange beer in the range. Before deciding on a choice and order, you can take 0.04 liters per sample.

Snacks in the bar are quite simple, but delicious: pizza, a large cheese plate, bruschetta. It is worth mentioning an interesting interior: the walls inside seem to be made of beer lids, and this amazing mosaic, along with beer, can be called one of the main “chips” of PiwPaw Beer Heaven.

address: Foksal, 16
Mon 13: 00-23: 00, Tue and Sun 12: 00-23: 00, Wed-Thu 12: 00-01: 00, Fri 12: 00-03: 00, Sat 12: 00-02: 00
piwpaw.p

U Szwejka

Few people know this Czech restaurant in the center of Warsaw, named after the famous “brave soldier”. No matter what time of day you come, there will always be a rumble of lively voices inside: guests and residents of the Polish capital are happy to come to Schweik to eat. Connoisseurs of Czech beer do not miss the restaurant either: they pour real Pilsner Urquell here and delight visitors with original craft varieties.

Those who like antiques, “Schweik” will surely like it. Inside the walls of the restaurant are decorated with old photographs, documents, and newspaper sheets of the first half of the twentieth century. The cuisine is solid and traditional: giant schnitzels, crispy pork knuckle, duck with apples, bramboraki – in short, everything that Czechs like to cook and eat. Especially for a large company, the menu has an “officer’s dish” for beer: with lots of meat delicacies, rice, potatoes, and cabbage.

address: Plac Konstytucji, 1
Mon-Fri 8: 00-00: 00, Sat-Sun 10: 00-00: 00
uszwejka.pl

Butchery and Wine

What could be better than a glass of good wine and a juicy meat steak? The question is rhetorical, but rest assured: to fall in love with this combination, it is enough to dine at least once in a wonderful wine restaurant in Warsaw Butchery and Wine. He has been repeatedly spotted by reputable restaurant guides such as Michelin Guide and Gault & Miliau Polska.

Butchery and Wine is a realm of elegant beef steaks and select wines. Meat for the kitchen is supplied from the best producers from Poland, the USA, Australia, Great Britain, Ireland, and Uruguay. At the same time, the chef Pavel Suvala prefers to personally control every detail, including the principles of breeding cows and the conditions of transportation of meat to the walls of the restaurant.

The bar menu is designed so that each drink can perfectly shade and decorate the taste of the best meat steaks. It includes whiskey and cognac, wines, classic cocktails, and liqueurs. And if you are a convinced connoisseur of delicious meat and alcohol, Butchery and Wine has every chance to become one of your favorite restaurants in Warsaw.

address: ul. Żurawia, 22
Mon-Sat 12: 00-22: 00, Sun 12: 00-00: 00
butcheryandwine.pl

Pod Gigantami

This place in Warsaw has a special atmosphere in which history, traditions, and culinary art are intertwined. Its audience is primarily gourmets who appreciate refined cuisine. The exquisite menu with Polish duck in berry sauce and unusual stuffed cabbage with fish is perfectly complemented by famous European dishes such as Italian risotto or French bouillabaisse.

Since 2013, a group of talented chefs has been led by Chef Marcin Wilupek, a graduate of the School of Gastronomy in Warsaw. However, the success of the restaurant is not only its impressive figure. For Aneta Yahacha, the owner of Pod Gigantami, her favorite creation has become a real passion – she always controls the taste and design of dishes, and every evening she personally greets guests in the hall. Sincere hospitality and kindness is another trump card that Pod Gigantami indisputably distinguishes from a number of other restaurants in Warsaw.

address: Al. Ujazdowskie, 24
Daily 12: 00-23: 00
podgigantami.pl

Belvedere

The prestigious restaurant of modern Polish cuisine is located in a picturesque place in Warsaw – Royal Lazenki Park, in the building of a new greenhouse, which is more than 150 years old. As in the past, here you can relax under the shade of a century-old palm tree and other unusual tropical plants.

In 2014, the interior of the restaurant was significantly renovated. Boris Kudlichka, an outstanding stage designer of the Polish National Opera, supervised the implementation of the project. The combination of modern elegant design and lush greenery has made the restaurant one of the cult places in Warsaw, although even before that it did not know the lack of visitors.

For excellent cuisine, whose dishes are created from Polish recipes and natural seasonal products, Belvedere has repeatedly received the Michelin Plate, an honorary badge of an authoritative restaurant guide. Many guests, and the residents of Warsaw themselves, come here to try the signature duck with red oranges or veal in truffle sauce.

Another gourmet challenge is the local selection of select steaks, including a great Japanese vagu steak and an excellent American roast beef, to which the sommelier will definitely recommend a glass of good Polish or French wine.

address: ul. Agrykoli, 1
Daily 12: 00-23: 00
belvedere.com.pl

Atelier Amaro

Gourmets of the Polish capital, without exception, are trying to get to the most famous Michelin restaurant in Warsaw today. He gained part of his fame thanks to the owner: in 2013, Wojciech Modest Amaro, the author of several culinary bestsellers, was the first in the country to receive a prestigious star from an authoritative restaurant guide. Then there were 4 Gault & Miliau Polska chef’s hats, but they only once again confirmed the high culinary skills of Atelier Amaro chefs.

But the main component of the restaurant’s success is the rumor, which quickly spread among connoisseurs of experimental Polish cuisine. The “Atelier” serves not ordinary dishes, but the so-called “moments”, created on the basis of the best seasonal products from different regions of the country. In addition, the restaurant has its own farm near Warsaw, where they breed quail, ducks, and piglets.

Wines or signature Polish alcoholic beverages are finely selected for each dish: tinctures, vodka from small distilleries, intoxicating honey. The final touch to the perfect evening will be a warning and pleasant service.

address: plac Trzech Krzyży, 10/14
Tue-Fri 18: 00-21: 30, Sat 17: 00-21: 30, Wed-Fri 12: 00-13: 30
atelieramaro.pl