Barbakan, Warsaw, Poland

Time-honoured recipes seize centre stage at Barbakan: Polish-style steak tartare, zurek soup with sausage and hard-boiled eggs in a sour rye bread bowl, as well as Warsaw's omnipresent rustic staple of pierogi dumplings stuffed with minced pork and crowned with crackling, washed down with hot wine.


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