Florianksa

When you first walk up to this place and have to go up the stairs that also lead to a hostel, you may think "What have I gotten myself into?"  This unassuming restaurant that overlooks Florianksa St. in Old Town was one of the best restaurants that we ate at.  It and Miod Malina with its' ribs were the best two places to dine.

The interior is well done- light and airy.  We were the only people in there at the time, but again, this is due more to our time of dinning than anything.  Our waiter (who may double as a sous-chef) was extremely helpful and friendly.

We started with a bottle of wine- a semi-dry red wine that was fantastic.  It was from the Veneto region of Italy.  Very good wine to go along with our meal.

I started with the lentil soup while Lynn got a traditional Polish favorite, zurek.  Zurek is a sour soup that has egg and sausage in it.  It sounds off-putting, but it is fantastic.  The lentil soup was good, but not great when compared with the zurek.  It isn't super-sour, it just has a slight bite to it.

For our main courses, we both got the wild boar stew on courgette and potato pancakes.  It needed a bit more salt, but other than that, it was pretty darn good.  The pancakes were crispy and a great meat delivery system.  It did have morel mushrooms on the side that did nothing for me, but there were three, and they posed no problem to my eating the boar.

We did go back a second time when some friends came into town.  The second time, horror upon horrors, they only had two servings of the boar left!  What's a girl to do?  Simple, get the beef stew on the pancakes, which, let's be honest, was what I was really after.  The beef stew was fantastic and it was also topped with their local smoked cheese.  I was not disappointed in my choice.

And finally, my dinning companion.  Thanks for the photo Linda!