Paczki appears as a signature dish in 1 Poland cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Pączki (Polish doughnuts) · Gdańsk
Yeast-raised doughnuts filled with rose-petal jam, plum jam or vanilla cream, deep-fried in lard and dusted with sugar or glazed. The single-day national obsession on Tłusty Czwartek (Fat Thursday).
Pączki are pan-Polish but the Fat Thursday tradition is national. Cukiernia Paradowski in Gdańsk Wrzeszcz, open since spring 1945, runs the city's most-photographed queue every year. The pre-war recipe came with Stefan Paradowski from Warsaw's Ziemiańska pastry shop in 1945.
Where to eat in Gdańsk:
- Cukiernia Paradowski
- Pellowski Piekarnia Cukiernia Kawiarnia
- Cukiernia Le Delice