Guidebook for Warsaw
Food Scene
The place offers great Vietnamese and Chinese cuisine and is always busy with customers. I always grab a lunch and dinner there when I am around. The portions are big cheap, and delicious.
10 locals recommend
Asia Tasty. Jedzenie azjatyckie. Warszawa
1 plac Żelaznej BramyThe place offers great Vietnamese and Chinese cuisine and is always busy with customers. I always grab a lunch and dinner there when I am around. The portions are big cheap, and delicious.
Do you know it was the Pole that opened the first cafeteria in the world in 1700s? This place is not that old, yet it keeps the atmosphere of local „kawiarnia”, and is on the way to the Old Town.
Bar Kawowy
66A aleja "Solidarności"Do you know it was the Pole that opened the first cafeteria in the world in 1700s? This place is not that old, yet it keeps the atmosphere of local „kawiarnia”, and is on the way to the Old Town.
Cafe Próżna
12 PróżnaA quite new great place in the heart of the old Jewish district.
One of the most hip places in the city. Check your Macbook batteries and dreadlocks before entering. Good coffee and cookies, free wifi. Not very expensive. Lots of alternative culture.
21 locals recommend
Chłodna 25
25 ChłodnaOne of the most hip places in the city. Check your Macbook batteries and dreadlocks before entering. Good coffee and cookies, free wifi. Not very expensive. Lots of alternative culture.
If you want to dine in style, that would be the place. The meats board will fill two men. Not very cheap, tho.
Restauracja Honoratka
14 MiodowaIf you want to dine in style, that would be the place. The meats board will fill two men. Not very cheap, tho.
Need big breakfast? Catch metro (quickier) or a tramway (sighseeings) and go there. Not very cheap, yet not painfully expensive.
9 locals recommend
Żywiciel
10 plac InwalidówNeed big breakfast? Catch metro (quickier) or a tramway (sighseeings) and go there. Not very cheap, yet not painfully expensive.
Dairy bars are fast-food Polish way - very cheap, very filling, very self-service. Choose your meal, pay, GRAB THE TICKET (important) then exchange it for food at another window. Not vegetarian, tho.
9 locals recommend
Złota Kurka
55/73 MarszałkowskaDairy bars are fast-food Polish way - very cheap, very filling, very self-service. Choose your meal, pay, GRAB THE TICKET (important) then exchange it for food at another window. Not vegetarian, tho.
If you want Italian-style pizza (there's Polish style too - not here), this is one of three places in Warsaw that I know of. Pizza, pasta, antipasti, wine, beer. Moderately expensive.
27 locals recommend
Non Solo Pizza
28/30 GrójeckaIf you want Italian-style pizza (there's Polish style too - not here), this is one of three places in Warsaw that I know of. Pizza, pasta, antipasti, wine, beer. Moderately expensive.
Another place by the owner of Non Solo. Everything is similar, and the food is equally good.
6 locals recommend
A Modo Mio
110 GrójeckaAnother place by the owner of Non Solo. Everything is similar, and the food is equally good.
Drinks & Nightlife
If you want to start a night of Warsaw clubbing, or end it here, Capitol club is great. It is also a short walk away from the place :-)
40 locals recommend
Capitol Theater
115 MarszałkowskaIf you want to start a night of Warsaw clubbing, or end it here, Capitol club is great. It is also a short walk away from the place :-)
Catch bus 171 (the nearest stop, exit on Koźmińska Street stop), say "friend" and enter. This is sci-fi and fantasy themed place, complete with elven runes and stargates. Good salads, nice drinks.
6 locals recommend
Paradox Cafe
2 Mordechaja AnielewiczaCatch bus 171 (the nearest stop, exit on Koźmińska Street stop), say "friend" and enter. This is sci-fi and fantasy themed place, complete with elven runes and stargates. Good salads, nice drinks.
Essentials
Old free market halls that still keep their function. Great place for grocery shopping and other everyday business. Somewhere under the Gwardia hall there is even a shooting range and boxing club.
76 locals recommend
Mirowska Hall
1 plac MirowskiOld free market halls that still keep their function. Great place for grocery shopping and other everyday business. Somewhere under the Gwardia hall there is even a shooting range and boxing club.
Sightseeing
The heart of the Old Town and one of Warsaw landmarks. Avoid the nearby restaurants - most of them are tourist traps. I always go there on warm summer evenings to sit down and watch the performers.
56 locals recommend
Sigismund's Column
plac ZamkowyThe heart of the Old Town and one of Warsaw landmarks. Avoid the nearby restaurants - most of them are tourist traps. I always go there on warm summer evenings to sit down and watch the performers.
Arts & Culture
Modern network cinema hosted at Palace of Culture (Soviet Russia gift from after the WWII). Get your Hollywood shot here, and watch out for slippery marble floors.
37 locals recommend
Kinoteka
1 plac DefiladModern network cinema hosted at Palace of Culture (Soviet Russia gift from after the WWII). Get your Hollywood shot here, and watch out for slippery marble floors.
Do you want to watch alt-movies about fishing in Pakistan? That's the place. Here you will see the movies that won't appear in multplexes. Monday tickets are like 4 or 5 dollars.
48 locals recommend
Kino Muranów
5 Gen. W. AndersaDo you want to watch alt-movies about fishing in Pakistan? That's the place. Here you will see the movies that won't appear in multplexes. Monday tickets are like 4 or 5 dollars.
One of the most prestigious modern art museums in the city. Check the current exhibitions on the way to King's Road.
246 locals recommend
Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
3 plac Stanisława MałachowskiegoOne of the most prestigious modern art museums in the city. Check the current exhibitions on the way to King's Road.