Sledz W Smietanie appears as a signature dish in 1 Poland cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Śledź w śmietanie · Warsaw
Polish herring fillets cured in salt, then served in sour cream with raw onion, apple and pickle. The canonical zakąska (cold starter) with a shot of vodka.
Śledź (herring) has been on Polish tables since the medieval period, when the Baltic fishery and inland salt-curing made it the cheapest protein for the long winter. The śmietana (sour cream) preparation is the Warsaw version, distinguished from the eastern oil-cured śledź po japońsku. It is the canonical zakąska on every Polish vodka-tasting table and at every Christmas Eve dinner. Restauracja Polka and Stary Dom plate it as a cold starter.
Where to eat in Warsaw:
- Restauracja Polka
- Stary Dom
- Pijalnia Wodki i Piwa (Nowy Swiat)
- Coctail Bar Max & Dom Whisky