Pickled Baltic herring fillets dressed with sour cream, raw red onion, diced apple and hard-boiled egg, the canonical Kashubian starter at every Pomeranian table from Gdańsk to Hel.
Pomeranian fishing villages have salted and pickled Baltic herring since the medieval Hanseatic period; the cream-apple-onion version belongs to the Kashubian ethnographic region and entered Gdańsk restaurants alongside Polish migration after 1945. The dish appears on the menu at Restauracja Kubicki (open since 1918) in a form close to the interwar Free City of Danzig version.
4 editor picks for Śledź po kaszubsku (Kashubian herring) in Gdańsk, ranked by editorial score. All Gdańsk signature dishes · Śledź po kaszubsku (Kashubian herring) across every city.
Restauracja Kubicki ★ 4.3
main-town · ul. Wartka 5, 80-841 Gdańsk
Kubicki in Gdańsk is the city's oldest restaurant, opened 1918 by Bronisław Kubicki on Wartka Street. Fresh fish priced by weight, eisbein from a kept-secret recipe and a pianist Wednesday to Saturday.
Velevetka ★ 4.2
main-town · ul. Długa 45, 80-827 Gdańsk
Velevetka in Gdańsk is the city's most committed Kashubian room, in the cellars of one of the Old Town's tenements on Długa. Smoked-bacon potato cake, Kashubian fish soup, mains served inside a hollowed loaf.
Restauracja Filharmonia ★ 4.1
main-town · ul. Ołowianka 1, 80-751 Gdańsk
Restauracja Filharmonia in Gdańsk sits on Ołowianka Island opposite the Old Town, with chef-Kashubian Marcin Szlagowski cooking his region: herring tartare, mustard soup, golce dumplings with roast goose.
Cała Naprzód ★ 4.0
main-town · ul. Tokarska 21-25, 80-888 Gdańsk
Cała Naprzód in Gdańsk crowns the Maritime Culture Centre with a fourth-floor terrace beside the medieval Crane. Kashubian herring, Baltic salmon, pike-perch pierogi and the best Motława-side view in the city.