One of the typical dishes for the Lublin region are paravies, or dumplings with cheese resembling a crushed ball. They are the most known and popular kind of dumplings in this region.
Do you know the most popular dish in Lublin region? Yes, it is cebulazh. It is delicious pizza made of onions. Do you know that there is even the museum of cebulazh in Lublin. There you will have the possibility to make it by your own hands. Here you will find all necessary information.
The meat typical of the Lublin cuisine is freshly fried, i.e. meat fried with spices and onions. Added to this are bean sausage or chicken broth.
Pierogi po lubelsku
These are the Lublin’s dumplings with sweet white cottage cheese.
Best after heating them up in boiling water.
Served with natural yogurt and sugar.
You can buy them in the regional restaurants or in the shops called “garmażerka” when you can buy ready meals to take away and eat at home.
Pierogi z kaszą gryczaną i białym serem
These are the dumplings with buckwheat and sweet white cottage cheese.
These are another sweet dumplings.
Best fried and served with natural yoghurt.
You can buy them or in the shops called “garmażerka” when you can buy ready meals to take away and eat at home.
Cebularz
This is an onion cake.
This is a special salty cake with onion and poppy seed.
You can buy it in the local restaurants with regional food or in bakeries in Lublin, which is a better option.
Served with butter and salt with pepper.
Forszmak lubelski
This is local soup made of chicken, ham, vegetables and tomato broth.
It is a very nutritious meal because of big pieces of meat in the soup.
You can try it on the bars, local restaurants, canteens.
Miód
Honey is a really regional food in Lublin.
Most recommended honey in Lublin is buckwheat honey – miód gryczany.
You can buy it on local markets.
Sękacz podlaski
It’s a confectionery product which appearance is a result of its specific way of preparation. His shape looking like a fir is the effect of being handmade hearth heated up. Thanks to such method, this product keeps freshness for 10 weeks.
Traditional Sękacz podlaski you can buy in Zaniewicz bakery – Lublin ul. Fabryczna 2.
Lublin’s gingerbread
It’s such a perfect proposition for amateurs of sweetness, who are taking care about health, because Lublin’s gingerbread doesn’t make people fat. It’s a two-part cake which has plum jam between cake parts. Gingerbread has only regional components like: multiflora honey, plums, flour and milk.
What’s interesting, from the beginning it was served without the sauce.
Ice cream
Do you like ice cream, but you are looking for exceptional ice cream? Check the proposals below:
- Ice Cream Parlor Bosco on Krakowskie Przedmieście St. 4 received the title “The best Ice Cream Parlor” in 2016. It a good place to sit down with the family and eat homemade ice cream.
- Ice Cream Parlor Jagoda on Sądowa St. 12 is a good place to eat Italian ice cream or ice cream gimlets.
- Thai ice cream on Krakowskie Przedmieście St. 5 is oriental ice cream that is made right in front your eyes.
- Polonia Cafe on Orkana St. 4 (Passage Tesco) has about 100 different flavors.
Waffles
Do you like waffles? The best waffles in Lublin you will find in:
- Irena’s waffles on Wileńska St. 21 and in Galeria Olimp on Spółdzielczości Pracy St. 32 al. arte the best waffles in the city, which has a long history.
- Bakery Jagoda on Sądowa St. 12 proposes besides ice cream and tubes of cream, waffles too.
Bakeries
Would you like to have a piece of cake and a cup of coffee?
Take advantage of the offers of Lublin’s bakeries:
- Bakery Williams has several branches in the city.
You should try a piece of the pie in a coffee shop in Galeria Olimp on Spółdzielczości Pracy St. 32. - Bakery Chmielewskiego on Krakowskie Przedmieście St. 8 is the oldest bakery in Lublin, where a piece of cake or cream candy helps you to feel the tradition of Lublin.
- Bakery Staropolska on Racławickie St. 7 has a wide range of cakes, homemade cakes with original flavors that cannot be missed
Italian cuisine in Lublin
- La Traviata – poetic Italian restaurants at Chopina Street (Chopina 5), delicious pasta and pizza prepared by masters of Italian cuisine
- Ivo – Zielona 22 / Staszica 1, original Italian dishes by Ivo Violante
- Giuseppe – Hipoteczna 3, location for fast lunch in the City Centre with long menu and nice Salads
- Viva la Pizza – great location in the heart of City Centre (Krakowskie Przedmieście 30) and delicious Italian pizza
- Toskania – elegant restaurants – best for evening meeting, Chopina 13
- Dominium – well – known recipes and great pizza in good locations in Lublin,
- Corrado Italiano – dishes from different regions of Italy and daily discounts (Tarasy Zamkowe, aleja Unii Lubelskiej 2).
Hot takeaway coffee
- Bike café – the easiest option: bikes with coffee can be easily found in the City Centre. The company has been presented in Poland since 2012 – on the interactive map available here you can check, where the bikes with fresh espresso are situated.
- Cafe Velo – delicious coffee and opportunity to taste tarts (Chopina 9/7)
- Spinacz Cafe at Ewangelicka Street 6 – good takeaway coffee and excellent sandwiches
- Kawiarnia Kawka – as they claim „Life starts after coffee” (Okopowa 9 i pół)
- Café Mari – a climatic place – it is a loss to go outside (Artura Grottgera 8)
- McDonalds – reliable for those in a hurry (Krakowskie Przedmieście 52)
- Wild Bean Cafe – something for a devotee of night coffee drinking – next to the Medical University (Północna 30)
Vegetarian restaurants
There are many fans of healthy style of eating in Lublin. Fans of this type of specialties have the reason to be happy as such places are here in Lublin.
Find out all vegetarian restaurants here.
Polish Flatbread
The Polish cuisine has its own Flatbread. The history of this bread comes from ancient times of Slavians. The flat bread made of wheat, water and salt was baked on stone in the fire. The traditional bread should be roasted on metal plate lying on a bake. However, people say that it is possible to bake this bread on a frying pan. It looks like really flat pita, but it is crispy. It can be eaten as normal bread because it used to be the only bread eaten in Poland years ago. In Polish shops podpłomyki can be found also as thin and crunchy waffles which are really sweet and delicious with fruit jam.
Fat Thursday
The Fat Thursday has different date in a calendar every year. It is the last Thursday before the Ash Wednesday which is the beginning of Lent. The Fat Thursday is as important in the Polish tradition as even people on a diet try a doughnut that day. According to the tradition everybody should eat at least 1 doughnut to be in luck for the whole year. A traditional Polish doughnut differs from those well-known in the West Europe and America.
Our doughnut is a fluffy ball in the size of a hand, made from yeast cake, stuffed with jam or brier rose. Doughnuts are covered by powdered sugar, coconut sprinkle, candied orange peel or sugar icing.