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💡 The Short Version: The one two-star restaurant in Kraków is Bottiglieria 1881, which also holds four Gault&Millau toques and 18/20, the highest score in Poland; it is closed on Sunday and Monday and opens from 17:00. Five restaurants hold a Michelin Bib Gourmand: NOAH, MOLÁM, Folga, Bufet KRK and Nat Bistro. Book them ahead. For everyday meals, Charlotte and Camelot Cafe serve breakfast and cake in the Old Town, Zaczyn is the sourdough bakery, and Kolanko Nº 6 and Bazaar Bistro are the Kazimierz lunches. Lonely Planet says the food on the Rynek is below average at above-average prices. If you would rather have someone choose for you, Kraków food tours compared sets the guided walks side by side.
Michelin’s selection is the one announced on 27 May 2026; Gault&Millau’s is from its awards on 9 March 2026.
⚠️ Check the day before you go. Bottiglieria 1881 is closed on Sunday and Monday, Bufet KRK on Monday and Nat Bistro on Tuesday. Kogel Mogel opens at 18:00 on Monday to Thursday. Filipa 18’s tasting menu is Tuesday to Saturday. Shops shut on most Sundays, but restaurants and cafés do not.
Michelin and Gault&Millau
The Michelin Guide Poland held its first national gala on 27 May 2026 at ICE Kraków. Its Kraków list has one two-star restaurant, no one-star, five Bib Gourmand restaurants, which Michelin gives for good food at moderate prices, and 19 Selected, which it recommends without a star (Michelin Guide). Gault&Millau returned to Poland with its awards on 9 March 2026 in Warsaw: Bottiglieria 1881 got four toques, 18/20, and Bufet KRK is among the three-toque restaurants (Polskie Radio).
Bottiglieria 1881
Kazimierz · Bocheńska 5 · Michelin: two stars · Gault&Millau: four toques, 18/20 · book a table
The restaurant of chef Przemysław Klima, whose first Michelin star in Kraków came in 2020 and second in 2023 (Kraków Food). Its site says the cooking follows the seasons and the wine list favours Central European bottles, Polish among them. It was Gault&Millau’s Chef of the Year 2026. Open Tuesday to Saturday from 17:00; closed on Sunday and Monday. Booking is on its site.
Bufet KRK
Kazimierz · Dajwór 8 · Michelin: Bib Gourmand · Gault&Millau: three toques · book a table
A younger sibling of Bottiglieria 1881, in a brasserie format. The menu is a list of small and large plates; the current one includes dumplings with bryndza, a sheep’s cheese, and forest mushrooms, a Duroc pork cutlet with French mustard, beef tartare with bone marrow and a Silesian dumpling, kluski śląskie, with onion sauce. It cannot cater for coeliac, lactose-intolerant or vegan guests. Open Tuesday to Friday 16:00 to 23:00, Saturday 13:00 to 23:00 and Sunday 13:00 to 22:00, with last orders an hour before closing; closed on Monday.
Nat Bistro
Krakowska 34 · Michelin: Bib Gourmand and Young Chef Award 2026 · Gault&Millau: one toque · book a table
A natural-wine bar and bistro with modern French inspiration and, its site says, a visible love of butter on the plate. It asks guests to order several dishes and share. Its chef, Ida Malec, won Michelin’s Young Chef Award in 2026. Open Monday and Wednesday to Friday 17:00 to 23:00, Saturday 14:00 to 23:00 and Sunday 14:00 to 22:00; closed on Tuesday.
NOAH
Kazimierz · Meiselsa 24 · Michelin: Bib Gourmand · website
Polish seasonal produce cooked as Israeli street food, in small plates for sharing; the name is Hebrew for rest. The chef is Wiktor Kowalski. Open Monday to Thursday 16:00 to 22:00, Friday 14:00 to 23:00, Saturday 13:00 to 23:00 and Sunday 13:00 to 21:30. Reservations are by phone or email.
MOLÁM
Rajska 3/4 · Michelin: Bib Gourmand · book a table
A Thai canteen cooking over open fire, with seats at the open kitchen counter. Its site says it was the first Thai restaurant in Poland to win a Bib Gourmand, in 2023, and has kept it each year since. The head chef, Tomek Muza, trained in London kitchens before opening in April 2019. Reservations are on its site.
Folga
Kazimierz · Estery 12 · Michelin: Bib Gourmand · book a table
A food-sharing restaurant and wine bar by Plac Nowy: large plates in the restaurant, snacks and tapas at the bar. Its site says it holds a Silver Star from Star Wine List for a short wine list of up to 200 labels. Order a few plates for the table.
Kogel Mogel
Sienna 12 · Michelin: Selected · website
Traditional Polish cooking in new arrangements, in a townhouse by the Planty near the Main Market Square, with 130 seats in four rooms and 70 in a summer garden. Lonely Planet names it as its example of a modern Polish restaurant to choose over the Rynek. Its menu lists aged beef steak with red-wine sauce and a plate of Małopolska cheeses, and the dessert is the dish in its name, a kogel mogel, whisked egg yolk, here with Polish Solaris wine. Open Monday to Thursday 18:00 to 22:00, Friday and Saturday 13:00 to 23:00 and Sunday 13:00 to 22:00. Reservations are by email.
Filipa 18
Old Kleparz · Świętego Filipa 18, in Hotel Indigo · Michelin: Selected · website
The restaurant of Hotel Indigo, whose chef Marcin Sołtys buys at the Old Kleparz market next door. The à la carte includes beetroot dumplings with goat’s cheese, PLN 48, and a pork cutlet on the bone with dill potatoes, PLN 79. A tasting menu, Tuesday to Saturday, is PLN 339 for three courses and PLN 399 for five, served to the whole table. The bistro and sky bar open daily 12:00 to 22:00. Reserve by phone on +48 12 300 30 33 or by email.
Pod Nosem
Kanonicza 22 · Michelin: Selected · website
A Polish restaurant at the foot of the Wawel, which its site says Michelin has listed every year since 2016. It cooks traditional dishes from regional ingredients, and has a cellar of more than 200 wines. It is on the street that runs up to the castle: see Wawel Castle tickets.
Fiorentina
Old Town · Grodzka 63, in the Balthazar Design Hotel · Michelin: Selected · website
A restaurant in a red-brick vaulted room whose speciality is a Florentine steak of seasoned beef cooked on a charcoal grill. Open Monday to Thursday 18:00 to 22:00, Friday 17:00 to 23:00, Saturday 13:00 to 23:00 and Sunday 13:00 to 22:00.
More Michelin Selected restaurants
| Restaurant | Where | What it is | Hours it prints |
|---|---|---|---|
| Euskadi | Kazimierza Brodzińskiego 4 | Basque pintxos, small bites on bread; the site says it is the only Basque restaurant in Poland | Sunday to Thursday 12:00 to 22:00, Friday and Saturday 12:00 to 22:30 |
| Nami Beef and Reef | Stolarska 13 | Japanese | Daily 12:00 to 23:00 |
| Artesse | Świętego Jana 15, in H15 Palace | Creative tasting menus | The kitchen takes tasting-menu orders from 17:00 to 21:00 |
Bakeries, cafés and breakfast
Obwarzanki, the boiled and baked bread rings, topped with sesame and poppy seeds. Photo: Chris Brown, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
Charlotte
Plac Szczepański 2 · website
A bistro and bakery in an Art Nouveau townhouse that housed Kraków’s first car showroom, with a communal table, a bakery in the basement and tables over the square’s fountain. Order the French breakfast, a croissant and a coffee or tea, PLN 18; the Charlotte breakfast with a bread basket and preserves, PLN 26; or a hot tartine of goat’s cheese, thyme and honey, PLN 16. Open Monday to Thursday 07:00 to 00:00, Friday 07:00 to 01:00, Saturday 08:00 to 01:00 and Sunday 08:00 to 22:00. Walk-ins are welcome until 16:00, and reservations are taken for the afternoon and evening.
Camelot Cafe
Old Town · Świętego Tomasza 17 · website
A café in three rooms with a theatre in the 13th-century cellars, which calls its hot apple pie the most famous in the city. The pie, made with szara reneta apples, is PLN 33, and a hot chocolate is PLN 25 to 28. Breakfast runs to 12:30, with lunch dishes after. Open every day 09:00 to 23:00.
Zaczyn
Kościuszki 27 · website
A bakery that sells sourdough bread and plant-based food. Open Monday to Friday 07:00 to 18:00 and Saturday and Sunday 09:00 to 17:00.
Wesoła Cafe
Rakowicka 17 · website
A specialty-coffee café open since 2014 that serves breakfasts, bowls, cakes it bakes itself and natural wines. A garden behind the café opens in spring and summer. The menu is printed with macronutrients as well as prices, in Polish and English.
Lunch and dinner without a booking
Kolanko Nº 6
Kazimierz · Józefa 17 · website
A restaurant and café open since 2002 that began with pancakes and now serves world cuisine and breakfast buffets, with vegetables from the owners’ own farm outside the city in season. Open Sunday to Tuesday 08:00 to 22:00 and Wednesday to Saturday 08:00 to 23:00, with breakfast from 08:00 to 12:00 daily. The room is air-conditioned.
Bazaar Bistro
Kazimierz · Plac Nowy 6 · website
A small corner bistro, bakery, deli and wine bar on Plac Nowy that bakes its own sourdough bread and lists more than 100 wines. Open Monday to Thursday and Sunday 09:00 to 22:00, and Friday and Saturday 09:00 to 24:00. Reservations are by email or phone.
Chimera
Old Town · Świętej Anny 3 · website
A salad bar in the covered courtyard of a medieval townhouse, with a ten-metre counter of salads, hot meat and vegetarian dishes, cakes and juices; it calls itself the first and largest in Kraków. Open every day 10:00 to 22:00.
Veganic
Karmelicka 34 · website
A plant-based restaurant with a drink bar. Open Monday to Thursday and Sunday 09:00 to 22:00, and Friday and Saturday 09:00 to 23:00.
Przystanek Pierogarnia
At least seven branches, including Szewska 25 and Bonerowska 14 · website
A chain of pierogi rooms that sells them by the portion of nine, among them ruskie, with potato and curd cheese, student’s, with bacon and potato, and vegan, with lentils and carrot. It also serves soups and kopytka, potato dumplings. Hours differ by branch.
A plate of pierogi ruskie topped with fried onion. Photo: Maksym Kozlenko, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Street food
- Obwarzanek. A ring of bread, boiled and then baked, sold from blue carts that read “Obwarzanek krakowski” in the Main Market Square, at the Floriańska Gate, on the Planty, near the Wawel and at the station. CityCompass gives PLN 3 to 4 each and says it has had an EU protected geographical indication since 2010 (CityCompass).
- Zapiekanka. A halved baguette baked with mushrooms and cheese, sold from stalls round the Okrąglak, the rotunda in the middle of Plac Nowy. The food blog Bez Farmazonu paid PLN 15 for a classic in July 2026 (Bez Farmazonu). The stalls stay open late, and the bars round the square are in the Kazimierz guide.
The Okrąglak, the rotunda in the middle of Plac Nowy in Kazimierz. Photo: Mach240390, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.
Where to avoid, and what to check
- The Rynek. Lonely Planet says the Main Market Square is bulging with below-average food at above-average prices, and that at least 80 of the Old Town’s hundred-plus places to eat are best skipped. It sends readers to modern Polish restaurants south of the square.
- Takeaway alcohol. Shops may not sell it from 22:00 to 06:00 since 1 September 2026; restaurants and bars are exempt.
Plan the rest
For the sights that need booking, what to book before you go to Kraków lists them. The guided options are in Kraków food tours compared. By the sights, Pod Nosem is on the road to the Wawel, Kogel Mogel and Charlotte are a few minutes from the Main Market Square, and Bufet KRK, NOAH, Folga, Bazaar Bistro and Kolanko Nº 6 are round Kazimierz. The season shapes what is open: best time to visit Kraków gives the weather by month and the Kraków Christmas market the stalls and their food. Where to stay in Kraków compares the areas, hotels near the Main Market Square lists the hotels round it, and 3 days in Kraków and Kraków in one day build days round the sights. For an evening, see Chopin concerts in Kraków and the Vistula river cruises.
Common questions
Which Kraków restaurants have a Michelin star?
One: Bottiglieria 1881, with two stars. The Michelin Guide Poland, announced at its first national gala on 27 May 2026 at ICE Kraków, lists no one-star restaurant in the city, five Bib Gourmand restaurants (NOAH, MOLÁM, Folga, Bufet KRK and Nat Bistro) and 19 Selected.
Do I need to book a restaurant in Kraków?
For Bottiglieria 1881, Bufet KRK, Nat Bistro, MOLÁM and Folga, yes: all take online bookings. NOAH, Kogel Mogel and Filipa 18 take reservations by phone or email. Charlotte seats walk-ins until 16:00 and takes reservations for the afternoon and evening.
Which Kraków restaurants are closed on Mondays and Tuesdays?
Bottiglieria 1881 is closed on Sunday and Monday, Bufet KRK on Monday, and Nat Bistro on Tuesday. Zaczyn and the cafés in this guide open every day.
How do I avoid tourist-trap restaurants in Kraków?
Lonely Planet says the Rynek is full of below-average food at above-average prices, and that at least 80 of the Old Town's hundred-plus places to eat are best avoided. It points to modern Polish restaurants south of the square instead, with Kogel Mogel as its example.
What is an obwarzanek?
A ring of boiled and baked bread sold from blue carts across the centre, with an EU protected geographical indication since 2010. CityCompass gives PLN 3 to 4 each in the centre. A zapiekanka, a halved baguette baked with mushrooms and cheese, is the Plac Nowy snack.
