Vegan in Kraków
Hello friends!
Lately I have fallen in love with trips that are neither too long nor too short, neither too expensive nor too cheap and last not least neither too far nor too close.
By other means, Kraków is an ideal destination when it comes to decision where to spend an extended weekend. We spent there four days what was enough to see a reasonable amount of sightseeings (#mustseen), to try enough amount of food, to visit the most famous places and overall to enjoy the atmosphere of this city as much as we wished.
Since we are quite keen on trying new stuffs, especially when it comes to food, our each trip typically starts at home by browsing on the Tripadvisor and seeking for the best rated restaurants. I mean particularly bistros and nowadays very popular some „to go options“, since both of us can choose whatever we want from different restaurants and then we can enjoy our meal wherever we want. Personally, I feel much more comfortable and enjoy my meal somewhere in a nature or park or just when sitting on some random bench than at a posh restaurant where a waiter asks us each 5 minutes whether we are satisfied or whether we have any further requests. And what is the most pleasure killer for me? When he kindly announces that a carafe with a tap watter costs 5 euros. Excuse me, whaaat?
Anyways, during our stay in Kraków, we obviously visited all #mustseen historical places such as Wawel Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Wawel Royal Castle, The Barbican, Cloth Hall and wandered through Kraków squares and enjoyed the atmosphere of historical narrow streets and parks. The architecture of the old town is magical. The Jewish Quarter is a separate chapter and due to its jewish historical buildings, artistic shops, parked old bicycles at almost each corner and oldfashioned pubs and bistros, it has an incredible atmosphere where we actually wanted to stay as long as possible. On the last day of our trip, when travelling home, we got off to visit Wieliczka, the salt mine situated very close to Kraków. Fyi, the route takes about 3 hours and, although I am not a fan of neither caves nor mines, when we were leaving the mine I was indeed out of a speech!
Regarding the food in Kraków and concerning a vegan options I was amazed! Offering an alternative milks at cafés, raw cakes, vegan icecreams, vegan options of a traditional polish dishes and a lot of 100% vegan restaurants and bistros.
Lately I have fallen in love with trips that are neither too long nor too short, neither too expensive nor too cheap and last not least neither too far nor too close.
By other means, Kraków is an ideal destination when it comes to decision where to spend an extended weekend. We spent there four days what was enough to see a reasonable amount of sightseeings (#mustseen), to try enough amount of food, to visit the most famous places and overall to enjoy the atmosphere of this city as much as we wished.
Since we are quite keen on trying new stuffs, especially when it comes to food, our each trip typically starts at home by browsing on the Tripadvisor and seeking for the best rated restaurants. I mean particularly bistros and nowadays very popular some „to go options“, since both of us can choose whatever we want from different restaurants and then we can enjoy our meal wherever we want. Personally, I feel much more comfortable and enjoy my meal somewhere in a nature or park or just when sitting on some random bench than at a posh restaurant where a waiter asks us each 5 minutes whether we are satisfied or whether we have any further requests. And what is the most pleasure killer for me? When he kindly announces that a carafe with a tap watter costs 5 euros. Excuse me, whaaat?
Anyways, during our stay in Kraków, we obviously visited all #mustseen historical places such as Wawel Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Wawel Royal Castle, The Barbican, Cloth Hall and wandered through Kraków squares and enjoyed the atmosphere of historical narrow streets and parks. The architecture of the old town is magical. The Jewish Quarter is a separate chapter and due to its jewish historical buildings, artistic shops, parked old bicycles at almost each corner and oldfashioned pubs and bistros, it has an incredible atmosphere where we actually wanted to stay as long as possible. On the last day of our trip, when travelling home, we got off to visit Wieliczka, the salt mine situated very close to Kraków. Fyi, the route takes about 3 hours and, although I am not a fan of neither caves nor mines, when we were leaving the mine I was indeed out of a speech!
Regarding the food in Kraków and concerning a vegan options I was amazed! Offering an alternative milks at cafés, raw cakes, vegan icecreams, vegan options of a traditional polish dishes and a lot of 100% vegan restaurants and bistros.
Well, our first stop was Hummus Amamusi Restaurant, located in the Jewish Quarter, where we had our late lunch after we had checked in. Since we were accomodated straight over Visla (the river running through Kraków) in the quarter neigbouring to the Jewish Quarter, we got there in about ten minutes. The hummus I had chosen was being served in a glutenfree corn bowl. In extra bowls we got chopped vegetables, pickles and pitas. So cute.
At dinner time I stopped by Krowarzywa Vegan Burger to take away, and, to be honest, it was the best "burger" I have ever had. Since I am not a big fan of buns, as the base I chose their a bowl option instead of a bun, which included fresh veggies, cooked millet and sprouts. They have a various range of "burgers", however, as I saw "Cieciorex" made from chickpeas, my choice was pretty clear. As extras I chose baked potatoes and a vegan feta. Topped with a thai mayonnaise, it was simply delicious 🔝 Next time I exchanged only the mayo for a tomato sauce 😋
The following day we decided to give a chance to Vegab. It is pretty high rated by Tripadvisor and we´ve understood very quicky why. You can choose a size, however, as I was deciding between classic and maxxi (because of #alwayshungry), I was warned that a maxxi size is really huge. Therefore I managed to choose the classic one and I really didn´t regret. I got still the biggest kebab I´ve ever seen, maby the maxxi size would be the biggest one worldwide! Then we headed to a park situated close to the bistro, where we had a picnic. My antiplantbased boyfriend enjoyed it as much as I did, therefore, disregard of you are a meataddicted person or not, we both unanimously reccommend: "Give Vegab a try!"❤
A place, where I had to get back once again or actually twice, since I wanted to taste each cake/dessert from their offer, is called Momo. Everything, including sweets were vegan or at least vegetarian, and to be honest, I have never eaten such delicious "cheesecake" until then. This one was made from tofu and was absolutely comparable to its classic oldschool favorable original ancestor. I ended up with a full box of sweet cakes, so a breakfast menu for the following days was pretty clear. Another significant positive of this bistro was its prices. For 4€ you get a full plate consisted of whatsoever you had chosen from their daily offer. Various mixes of fresh salads, cooked veggies with leguminous such as beans, chickpeas or lentils, seasoned by oriental spices. Heaven in my mouth
Hopefully I will come back to Kraków, not only for these vegan paradise but also for the entire atmosphere of this city.
P.S. All the time we were moving just by foot and did approximately 30.000 thousand steps per day. Therefore wearing running shoes is always a good idea 😉
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