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Culinary Journey – tastes of Northern Poland

CULINARY JOURNEY – TASTES OF NORTHERN POLAND

( 7 days / 6 nights )

WARSAW (1) – MIKOLAJKI (1) – LIDZBARK WARMINSKI (1) – GDANSK (2) – WARSAW (1)

Day 1 – WARSAW (D)

Day 2 – WARSAW – MIKOLAJKI (B, L, D) – 230 km

After breakfast sightseeing tour of Warsaw including Old Town with Market Square and Mermaid Monument, Barbican Walls, St. John’s Cathedral, Royal Castle and Castle Square with Sigismundus Column in the middle. Drive along Royal Route with tenement houses, palaces and monuments to Belvedere Palace and Palace on the Water and Chopin monument in Lazienki Park.
Lunch at the local restaurant ( for example restaurant Belvedere considered as one of the best Warsaw’s restaurants
Departure for Masurian Lakes district in Northern Poland – enchanting land of a thousand lakes ( in fact there is over three thousands lakes in that region )
Dinner at restaurant „Galindia“, where despite of tasting local Masurian delicacies in a very special place surounded by nature guests can take a boat cruise, take part in a feast celebration of medieval local tribe – Galinds ( open air at the lake or in a caves ) or experience the attact of Gallinds‘ and be their prisoners
Overnight in Mikolajki

Day 3 – Masuria : MIKOLAJKI – LIDZBARK (B, L, D)

After breakfast a tour of Masuria – the largest lakeland in Poland. Drive through the stunning scenery of primewal woods, lakes and fields.
Optional – a cruise on one of the local lakes
Lunch at the local fish restaurant. A local specialities are : fish soup, eel fish soup, sorrel soup, zander in sesame, meat dumplings in Masuria style, potatoes pancakes with eel, roasted potatoes with bacon and onion , blackberries ice-cream
After lunch continuing the sightseeing of Masuria – visit a well-known pilgrimage place – basilica of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in Swieta Lipka with famous pipe-organs – a true work of art ( posibility to arrange an organ concert )
Optional – a visit in a ‚Wolf Lair‘ in Gierloz –Adolf Hitler’s Headquarter during II World War. On 20 July 1944 in a Wolf’s Lair faced a failed attempt on Hitler’s life ( by Claus von Stauffenberg ).
Continue to Lidzbark Warminski
Dinner at the local castle in Lidzbark. We recommend : wild boar pate, herring in a red onion jam with boiled vegetables salad, boulion with ‚kolduny‘ ( small dumplings), pork knuckle stewed in beer served with peas puree, tench in cream sauce with potatoes, carrots and bean, Zeppelins with meat served with cabbage-cucumber salad.
Overnight in Lidzbark Warminski

Day 4 – LIDZBARK – Malbork – GDANSK (B, L, D) – 290 km

After breakfast departure for Malbork
Visit at Malbork Castle – the biggest brick medieval castle in Europe, property of the Teutonic Knights and the site oft he Grand Master. Finally the Grand Master left the castle in 1457 and for over 300 years Malbork was the site of Polish kings and noblemen. In the middle ages Malbork was known as one of the biggest complex – there was a Latin phrase : Milano – from marble, Buda – from stone, Malbork – from mud which indicates the size of the castle comparable to the biggest European cities but from another side testify the material and spiritual smallness.
Lunch at restaurant „Gothic Cafe“ at Malbork Castle
We recommend local specialities: meatballs with hulled barley & boletus risotto, parsley-breaded chicken breast served with carrots roasted with sesame and salted peanuts, saffron ice-cream with caramelised mulberry fruit. You can try „fusion cuisine“ : roasted seasonal fruits in almond crumble served with horse-radish& lemon sorbet and goat cheese.

Optional – participation in Culinary Academy of Cafe Chef – Bogdan Galazka who gained his experience in Kurt Scheller’s Academy in Warsaw and best restaurants in New York. Guests can discover 15th c. receipes of traditional cuisine or participate in „Chocolate Academy“ preparing chocolate pralines
Transfer to Gdansk
Dinner at the local restaurant „Gdanski Bowke“, offering ‚amber menu‘ : fish soup enriched with lovage, chestnut dumplings, cryfish and chilli, salmon with caviar served on sunflower seeds and peas puree with amber-rose sauce, melon tartare with amber essence and Goldwasser liquor served on raspberry mousse.
Overnight in Gdansk

Day 5 – GDANSK (B, D)

After breakfast full day sightseeing of Tri-City including highlights : Old Town in Gdansk with Gothic Mary’s Church – one of the biggest churches in Europe, Town Hall from 14th c., Artus Court – the meeting place of rich burghers from hanseatic cities, visit at Oliwa’s Cathedral to listen to pipe-organ regular concert ( magnificent organs are one of the biggest in Poland ).
Free time for own discovering oft he city and ist restaurants
After lunch break – continuing sightseeing – transfer to Sopot , walk along a famous Sopot wooden pier ( the longest at Baltic Sea – 511 m ). Drive to Gdynia – the youngest of three cities making the seaside agglomeration. Possibility to discover the samples of pre-war architecture.
Dinner at one of Kashubian restaurants in the suburbs of Gdansk with optional folklore show. Poissibility to taste a local kashubian cuisine specialities : goose breast tartare, fried cod liver, Kashubian pancakes, Szpajza – kind of egg dessert, Brëjka- Kashubian style coffee, linden and lilac tea with linden honey
Overnight in Gdansk

Day 6 – GDANSK – Torun – WARSAW (B, L, D) – 410 km

After breakfast transfer to Torun
Sightseeing of Torun – the town of Nicolaus Copernicus, his birthplace. Visit Old Town with Town Hall in the middle of Market Square, St. Johns‘ Cathedral, Artus Court. Entrance to Copernicus house – now a museum. During the II World War Torun was not destroyed so now we can admire the original architecture of the town.
Visit at Gingerbread museum , presentation of making traditional gingerbread
Lunch at local restaurant in Torun
Free time for shopping ( possibility to buy a favourite kind of gingerbread)
Departure for Maurzyce
Sightseeing of open-air museum in Maurzyce presenting ca 40 buildings from Lowicz County in 18-20 century building style.
Dinner in Maurzyce – the guests take part in a Lowicz – style wedding party
Transfer to Warsaw
Overnight in Warsaw

Day 7 – Warsaw ( B)