With beer and BBQ season in full swing, we take a look at three top tipples ahead of the weekend. Deep Love (Ale Browar & Nogne O) A Polish / Norwegian collaboration that signals a return to form for Ale Browar. Marketed as a Belgian rye IPA, this dark... Read more
When Warsaw gets its summer sweat on, reach for relief with the traditional local cure: ice cream. We bring you five local legends… Budka z Lodami (Francuska 30) This innocuous wooden cabin has become a summer staple for Sunday Saska strollers. Natural ingredients and creative flavor combinations have installed... Read more
In their relentless battle with authority, our man finds the anarchic world of squatters to be a mirror of the very thing they are fighting against… The mood at the squat is dark and potent. The night before had seen its members clash with police as they tried to... Read more
Fusion Café
Restaurants 26 June 2014 0
Businesses have been fleeting at this particular location in Stara Papiernia, an old-paper mill located in the heart of Konstancin. But it looks like Fusion Café is here to stay. Warsaw teems with cafés and coffee shops, however, the majority of decent ones are located in the city center.... Read more
Bloated with tourists it is not. While sightseers stampeded across the streets and squares of Kraków, Lublin in the east stands largely forgotten… (By Alex Webber | Photos: Ed Wight) A Jaguar would have been fitting, but instead we settle for a Brezhnev era Lada. There are better ways... Read more
These are hard times to write about food in Warsaw. Hard times because it feels every new opening is better than the last. Yet in the case of L’enfant Terrible, you feel the curve has finally reached its limit – will there be a better opening this year? I... Read more
Synonymous with trains, the Insider discovers the steamy side to Wolsztyn… The steam engine belches steam and coal dust. Big, clunking wheels grate on metal rails as we hurtle towards our top speed of 90 km/hr. Every ten minutes the engineer, Marek, bends forward and holds an ear towards... Read more
Temat Rzeka
Insider News 18 June 2014 0
June is the month parents start to get restless – in fact, I panic! It’s the realization that I have less than a month before the school holidays begin and nine weeks need to be filled with thrilling entertainment to tempt my daughter out of her bedroom. Poland’s answer... Read more
Everyone has a secret little fear, and for me it’s the gym. Unfortunately, that’s a fear I’ve been forced to confront. Where once I looked drop dead gorgeous, now I just look like I’m going to drop dead. What happened? Call it middle age. Life has caught up with... Read more
We’ve seen them, joked about them, and possibly been hit by them. But what’s the story behind the vintage cars of Poland? Even in modern, gleaming Warsaw, you’ll still find the relics of Soviet motoring puttering around, performing improbable maneuvers as they cut in and out of traffic. Yet... Read more
What to do in February
Insider News Jan 31, 2023 0
