Restauracja Stylowa in Kraków, Fine dining restaurant in Nowa Huta district, Kraków, Poland.
Restauracja Stylowa is a fine dining restaurant at the center of Nowa Huta, a planned socialist district in the eastern part of Krakow. The dining room is large, with wooden floors, wide windows, and a decor that has changed little over the decades.
The restaurant opened in 1956, just a few years after Nowa Huta was built as a model socialist city for workers at the nearby steel plant. It has stayed open through every political shift in Poland since then.
The dining room still looks very much as it did when workers from the nearby steelworks came here for lunch, with plain tables, wide windows, and a no-frills layout that speaks to how everyday dining was organized in socialist Poland. Both locals and visitors from outside the neighborhood come here today, drawn by the setting as much as the food.
The restaurant sits right on Nowa Huta's central square, a short walk from the local tram stop that connects the district to the rest of Krakow. A reservation is usually not needed, though the dining room can fill up at peak meal times.
The restaurant still displays original Lenin busts and Soviet-era decorations that were never removed after the political changes of 1989. These objects were not added later for effect but have stayed in place since the restaurant first opened.
The community of curious travelers
AroundUs brings together thousands of curated places, local tips, and hidden gems, enriched daily by 60,000 contributors worldwide.
