Zapiekanka is the open-face baguette Kraków built into a late-night ritual: half a long roll, layered with mushroom, cheese and ham, grilled until the cheese melts, finished with ketchup and garlic sauce. The Plac Nowy windows serve it until 03:00.

Zapiekanka emerged in 1970s Poland as a cheap street-food adaptation of French bread pizza. The Plac Nowy rotunda in Kraków's Kazimierz, originally a 19th-century kosher poultry slaughterhouse called the Okraglak (the round), reopened as a zapiekanka cluster in 1989 after the Iron Curtain fell. Six windows ring the building; Endzior is the consensus pick. The dish features in every Kraków guidebook since the 1990s. The half-metre version (60 cm long) is the post-bar order; the regular 30 cm version is the standard.

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