Kotlet schabowy is Poland's breaded pork cutlet, the Sunday-lunch backbone: pork loin pounded thin, dipped in egg and breadcrumbs, pan-fried in lard, served with mashed potato and sauerkraut. The Polish wiener schnitzel.
Kotlet schabowy entered Polish home cooking in the late 19th century, adapted from Austro-Hungarian wiener schnitzel during the Galician partition of 1772-1918 when Kraków sat in Habsburg territory. The dish became the Sunday lunch standard across all of Poland by the 1920s, codified in Maria Ochorowicz-Monatowa's 1910 cookbook. Polish kotlet uses pork loin (schab) rather than the Austrian veal; the lard-fry rather than butter-fry is the Polish stamp. Every bar mleczny and family canteen in Kraków serves it. Bar Mleczny Pod Temidą's version with mashed potato and sauerkraut is the city's editorial cheap-and-canonical pick.
4 editor picks for Kotlet schabowy in Kraków, ranked by editorial score. All Kraków signature dishes · Kotlet schabowy across every city.
Bar Mleczny Pod Temidą ★ 4.5
stare-miasto · ul. Grodzka 43, 31-001 Kraków
Bar Mleczny Pod Temidą on Kraków's Grodzka is the city's most editorial surviving milk bar: laminated menu, queue-and-pay-first, full meals for 15 to 25 zl since the 1960s.
Pod Aniołami ★ 4.3
stare-miasto · ul. Grodzka 35, 31-001 Kraków
Pod Aniołami in Kraków sits in a 13th-century cellar on Grodzka with a beech-wood grill at the centre of the room. Traditional Polish grilling, table service nightly.
Smakołyki ★ 3.9
stare-miasto · ul. Straszewskiego 28, 31-110 Kraków
Smakołyki on Kraków's Straszewskiego is the cheap-and-honest student-canteen Polish home-cooking room: schabowy, pierogi, potato pancakes, full plate under 30 zl.
Polakowski ★ 3.9
kazimierz · ul. Miodowa 39, 31-052 Kraków
Polakowski in Kraków's Kazimierz is the all-day Polish canteen for the Old Synagogue end: pierogi, bigos, schabowy, gołąbki, served counter-style from 10:00 to 22:00.