Five restaurants made their debut on this year’s list receiving the "fork and spoon" designations: Warsaw-based Senses (3), Salto (2) and Signature (2) and Kraków-based Italian cuisine Bianca (1) and Ed Red steak house (1).
Salto is the restaurant of Martin Gimenez Castro – an Argentinian chef and a winner of the first Polish Top Chef edition. The dominating South-American flavours are subjected to “courageous acrobatics”.
Senses is co-owned by Andrea Camastra, a charismatic chef with French and Italian roots.
Senses is an honest and emotional approach towards food. We use the best products to create innovative, yet surprisingly familiar solutions.
– wrote Camastra about his restaurant.
Signature is Wojciech Kilian's authorial and innovative restaurant, which "welcomes everyone that can appreciate a portion of unusual flavours, crowned with a Signature dessert”.
The Kraków-based steak house Ed Red specialises in, among others, dishes made of dry rub beef: “Ed Red loves meat, whose taste begins with quality”. One of the most deemed Polish chefs Adam Chrząstowski is in charge here.
Bianca is an intimate, small restaurant placed in a nook by Rynek Główny (Market Square) and Kościół Mariacki (St. Mary’s Basilica). It offers the best that Italian cuisine has to offer – simple dishes, but based on real, regional Italian ingredients of the highest quality.
The Warsaw-based restaurants that have made it to the Red Guide again are: Amber Room, Atelier Amaro, Belvedere, Michel Moran – Bistro de Paris, Platter by Karol Okrasa, San Lorenzo, Tamka 43, Ale Gloria, Biała Gęś, Brasserie Warszawska, Concept 13, Dom Polski, La Rotisserie, Nolita, Rozbrat 20, U Fukiera, Butchery & Wine, Delizia, Merliniego 5, Qchnia Artystyczna and Winosfera. As for Kraków, the restaurants acknowledged once more are: Copernicus, Trzy Rybki, Wentzl, Szara, Kogel Mogel, Resto Illuminati, Pod Baranem, Jarema, Cyrano de Bergerac, Corse, Studio Qulinarne, Szara Kazimierz, Sąsiedzi, La Campana, Farina, Trufla, Del Papá 1, Zakładka and Ancora (the latter has recently closed down).
Author: Magdalena Kasprzyk Chevriaux, March 2015, transl. Agata Dudek
Sources: michelintravel.com