Sanepid, the institution protecting sanitary conditions, informed yesterday about results of an inspection that was carried in 40 Kraków’s oriental fast-food bars. Half of the establishments have failed to fulfill basic standards: inspectors encountered general mess and filth, serious malpractices in food storage, and bad waste management. One of the bars was found to constitute [...]

Whining about Polish customer service is a Polandian tradition, and what better time to indulge than our first birthday. My local shop, conveniently situated about 100 meters from the front door of my building, has a lot of points in its favor. It sells about 50 percent of the things one might normally need, the [...]

This is the Beatroot’s second visit to Polandian. This time he’s brought along his very own extra-large coffee mug to “save us the washing up.” We’ll be counting the spoons after he’s gone. Ah, the perfect Polish picnic. Sitting with the girlfriend and dog by the pond in our local park on a warm, early [...]

Kraków soup festival happens once a year, towards the end of May (Sunday 25 this year). I had trouble finding anything about it in English on the internet, so I thought it could do with a mention here. After all, even Anglophones should have equal opportunities to access free food. Soup for all I say! [...]

Since this is the 100th post on Polandian I’ve come over all nostalgic and misty-eyed. What fun we’ve had, what thrills, what spills, what belly laughs and what tear-jerking moments! This is the blog equivalent of those episodes on sitcoms when the characters sit around and recall all the side-splitting things that have happened to [...]

There are many attractions to living in Poland and one of them is the menu translations! It is always with a sense of excitement that I open a menu wondering what surprises I might find inside or even if I will find the holy grail of a perfectly translated menu from front to back. It’s [...]