Roast Duck with Apples at Restaurant Pasieka
I was going around the Old Town Market Square looking for a place to eat. I expected it to be pricey and indeed some of them were expensive. They also felt like a tourist trap, some of them have staff asking people to eat inside. One guy saw me lugging around a large camera and he told me the interiors of the restaurant were beautiful and it is okay to take photos. Indeed it looked like it was nice inside but in the end, the price of the food was too much for me.
Cup of Półtorak at Restaurant Pasieka
I ended up looking outside the old town. It wasn’t really that far from the market square since the old town wasn’t that big in the first place. North of the old town were some restaurants. I remember seeing one of them when I had my late lunch and thought that I wanted to try that one out. I ended up going to Restaurant Pasieka. The restaurant seemed to be full at the time but turns out it was larger than it looked. There was a large dining area in the back and it was empty. I had the entire room all to myself.
I am not familiar at all with Polish food so everything was new to me. I think this is the best thing about visiting Poland. The chance to try new kinds of food is fun. This time I had a duck dish called Kaczka Pieczona z Jabłkami. Now pronunciation of Polish words is totally beyond me. I thought I already got it down, but now that I see that standalone z, I confused again. Anyway, that is Roast duck with apples. The menu of course had an English translation since this is a tourist area so I knew I wasn’t getting something weird. Although duck with apples would indeed be a bit weird, most especially the apples part.
Inside Restaurant Pasieka
Turns out the duck was heavenly. The roast duck leg was baked that it was falling off the bone. The sauce was a very nice sweet sauce that wasn’t overly sweet that the dish would turn into a dessert. There were real apples in the dish. In the photo, the ones in the foreground are apples, potatoes are in the background. To wash it all down, I got some kind of alcoholic honey. Apparently, that’s called mead and it was my first time trying something like this. The Polish have different names for their mead depending on the concentration of the honey versus water. I got the most concentrated one Półtorak which is very sweet. I have a sweet tooth and I think the Półtorak was very nice. The drink actually came hot but i usually have my drinks last so it was only warm by the time I got to it.
In the end, I must say that this was probably the best place I have eaten in Poland. That of course is a very general statement but the duck and the Półtorak really hit the spot for me. I would love to go back to Warsaw if only for that meal.
Pasieka
Ul. Freta 7/9, Mazowieckie, Warsaw 00-227, Poland
+48 22 8314616
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