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.

Kmicic @ Warsaw, Poland

Goose up a visit to Poland's capital of Warsaw with goose stomach stewed in sweet cream and goose thigh roasted with beets and potato dumplings. Complete your meal in this Old Town outlet with coffee spiked with egg liqueur.

Kmicic

Warsaw Old Town, Poland.

Krzywe Kolo @ Warsaw Old Town

Warsaw's Old Town is a sleepy space, scarcely open for business at breakfast. The earliest riser is Krzywe Kolo; start the day with traditional herbed herring marinated in red wine, alongside bread with sheep's milk cheese, plus some Polish white wine.

Przy Zamku @ Warsaw Old Town

Staking out prime position at the front of Warsaw's Old Town, Przy Zamku is a restaurant for carnivores, with highlights like the Polish bigos - a time-honoured hunter's stew of chopped kielbasa (smoked sausage), wild boar & roe deer meat, plus sauerkraut, served in a bread bowl. Wash down with local fruit-flavoured beer & the infamous Zubrowka bison grass vodka.

Przy Zamku

Warsaw Old Town, Poland