RECOMMENDATION ACTION FOR KRAKOW'S RESTAURANTS
I looked through dictionaries in search of the word “gourmet” and I was not pleased with what I found at all. The true and appropriate meaning of the word is constantly being confused with gluttony and surfeit; therefore, I believe, dictionary makers – who, by the way, deserve the utmost respect – do not belong among those kind scholars who can gracefully bite off a partridge’s wing – wrote Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, the author of “The Physiology of Taste, or Meditations on Transcendent Gastronomy”, who lived at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Following in the footsteps of that brilliant expert on cuisine, the City Office of Krakow and the Krakow Merchants’ Congregation have organized the Krakow Restaurants’ Recommendation Action for the fifth time. The award-winning restaurants have received a traditional statue in the shape of a bagel. The cuisines offered by the restaurants mentioned in this brochure should provide you with tastes and flavours which would satisfy even A. Brillat-Savarin as, according to his very own words, The Maker, when making man eat in order to live, gave him appetite as incitement and pleasure as award.
During recent years, restaurants have become one of the magnets which attract numerous visitors to the city under Wawel Hill. Often offering fancy and unique dishes, representing mainly Polish cuisine, including the cuisine typical of Krakow, the restaurants tempt their guests with a cosy atmosphere and all types of interior designs and locations: from graceful tenement houses to historical cellars.
Thus, we wish to invite you to our restaurants on behalf of the chefs of Krakow, who must remember that – to quote the French gourmet once again – to invite someone means to take into account his happiness throughout all the time which he spends in our premises. As for the guests, we should recall another sentence: Those who gorge themselves or get drunk are able neither to eat nor to drink.
Enjoy!
Jerzy W. Gajewski
