Urara Sushi & Shabu Shabu, Japanese restaurant in Old Town, Krakow, Poland.
Urara Sushi & Shabu Shabu is a Japanese restaurant on Świętego Tomasza street in the Old Town of Krakow, offering both sushi and shabu shabu. Each table is fitted with a personal cooking burner, where diners cook fresh meat, tofu, and vegetables in a broth of their choice.
The restaurant opened in 2020 and was among the first places in Krakow to offer shabu shabu as a central part of its menu. It brought a style of Japanese table cooking that had rarely been seen in the city before.
Shabu shabu is a Japanese table-cooking tradition where each person cooks their own food in a pot of simmering broth. Sharing the process of cooking and eating together at the same table gives the meal a social quality that feels different from a standard restaurant visit.
Booking ahead is a good idea, particularly on weekends and in the evenings, as tables with cooking stations tend to fill up. The restaurant is in the Old Town and easy to reach on foot from the main square.
The name shabu shabu comes from the swishing sound that thin slices of meat make when swirled through hot broth. This sound is actually audible at the table when the ingredients are dipped into the pot.
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