Smoked Eel appears as a signature dish in 1 Poland cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Smoked Baltic eel (Węgorz wędzony) · Gdańsk
Whole Baltic eel salted, cold-smoked over alder wood and sliced into glossy black-skinned rings. The luxury fish of Pomerania, sold by weight at Hel Peninsula smokehouses and ordered as a starter at the Targ Rybny seafood restaurants through the colder months.
Eel-smoking on the Hel Peninsula goes back centuries; the alder-wood method shaped the Kashubian fishing villages. Smoked eel became a luxury export through the Hanseatic period; today it appears as a starter at Targ Rybny - Fishmarkt and Cała Naprzód, and shows on most Pomeranian Christmas tables.
Where to eat in Gdańsk:
- Targ Rybny - Fishmarkt
- Cała Naprzód
- Restauracja Kubicki
- Restauracja Filharmonia