Food and Restaurants in Masuria

Reviews 2009-09-08

There is a large number of lakeside restaurants in Masuria’s main towns, including Gizycko, Mikolajki, Mrągowo, Kętrzyn and Elk. They include mainly local restaurants and pizzerias, serving typical Polish dishes. The Polish cuisine is influenced by both Slavic and Jewish traditions, and is rich in meat and spices. Popular traditional dishes include for example pirogi, dumplings with filling that is usually meat.

Masurian Food is very delicious. Polish food ranges from kielbasa, which is a type of sausage, to golabki, or cabbage rolls, hunter's stew to stuffed eggs, and from dumplings to mushrooms.  There are also many desserts like poppy seed cake, crullers, royal mazurek, a dish much like a cherry pie, saffron babas, and buckwheat and raisin pudding.

But there are many more dishes. Meat, fish, poultry, dumplings, cakes, soups, cheeses, vegetables  etc. – they all come in very different forms, prepared in different ways, with different sauces, as regional specialties, and so on. It is this variety which is probably the most important thing about Polish food. It means a rich choice of tastes and flavors, which makes any gourmet happy.

In any Polish dish, you will be sure to find a smattering of any of beetroot, cucumber, sour cream, egg, mushroom, caraway seed, or sausage.

Given the wide variety of dishes available, some exotic ones at that, Poland surely has on offer, gastronomic treats fit for the king.

We would not suggest eating pasta in Masuria.  But saurkraut, sausages, white borsch, beet root soup, goulash, smoked fish.... You will not find better ones anywhere else.