breakfast in Krakow at a little alleyway breakfasty place with super creative takes on the classics:
not our train but a bullet train the Krakow station?!
some scenes going from the west to the more rural less travelled eastern side of the country:
the Lublin train station. Nowhere near the extreme chaos of Krakow's point of departure:
some fun grafitti near where we're staying:
for dinner we went to this crazy crazy jewish restaurant called Mandragora that is so hard to explain. anyways we sat in the huge courtyard in the back and ate the most amazing food. A chicken soup with knaydl; an allegedly traditional Jewish cabbage soup with almonds and raisins, potato and cottage cheese dumplings with roasted garlic and thyme; two kinds of herring; compote and a beer and then a pistachio cheese cake with an artemisia absinthium herbal vodka infusion. we will go back there because it was just such an interesting and strange experience and the food was so good. by the way, they have a duck dish with a plum sauce, not to mention a chicken liver dish...i wanted to try the cholent because i've only read about it and would like to taste it but it's only available on friday's and saturdays (their sabbath menu). i will take better pictures next time we're there. it's really that strange and possibly amazing. here's a link to the restaurant's website:
walking back to this stinky rental by way of the old town and the promenade. this place so far seems completely unpretentious and minding its own business here in the former Pale of Settlement:
How was 1st class?
ReplyDeleteit was interesting in that there were hardly any seats, the tables were bigger and there was much more room but other than that both areas are really nice. very clean, well maintained, etc.
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