Food festivals in Warsaw worth planning a trip around, by month.
Food festivals in Warsaw worth planning a trip around, by month.
RestaurantWeek Spring runs a seven-week tasting-menu programme across Warsaw and other Polish cities. Three-course menus from 70 zl, designed by participating restaurants for the festival window only.
Focus: Tasting menus across Polish restaurants
RestaurantWeek Autumn is the second instalment of Poland's biggest culinary festival, with hundreds of Warsaw restaurants offering set tasting menus at festival prices for six weeks each October and November.
Focus: Tasting menus across Polish restaurants
Warsaw Beer Festival is one of Poland's largest craft beer events, bringing local and international breweries to the capital for tastings, premieres, food pairings and meetings with brewers across three days.
Focus: Craft beer, brewery showcase
Wianki nad Wisla (Wreaths on the Vistula) is Warsaw's solstice festival, drawing tens of thousands to the Vistula boulevards for a folklore picnic, food stalls and floating flower wreaths down the river at dusk.
Focus: Solstice picnic, street food, folk craft
Fine Dining Week is the upmarket sister festival to RestaurantWeek, with Warsaw's top tasting-menu kitchens running prix-fixe fine-dining sets across roughly six weeks of summer bookings.
Focus: Fine-dining tasting menus
Peak food season in Warsaw is year-round.
Local dining hours: lunch around 12:30, dinner from 19:30.
service is typically included; small extra is welcome but not expected.
Ask the next local you meet what they would order. Warsaw rewards trust.