Restauracja Gdańska

Gdańsk


Dining in any of the five over-the-top banqueting rooms and salons here is a bit like eating out in a well-stocked museum, with surroundings of antique furniture, oil paintings, model ships and random objets d’art. The upper-end traditional menu of herring, white Gdańsk-style żurek (traditional sour-rye soup), duck and slabs of cheesecake is as heavy as the sumptuous drapery.

As staff will readily tell you, Lech Wałęsa and, er, lots of other important Poles you've never heard of have eaten here.


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