Poland renowned for its national drink vodka, is also famous for its beers and microbreweries. The beer capital of Poland is Gdansk, a seaport on its northern Baltic sea coast. Brovarnia Gdańsk is a good place to experience the best of Polish beer and traditional food.
Brovarnia Gdańsk restaurant is inside Hotel Gdańsk which in its previous life was an old 17th century granary building (which miraculously emerged from the Second World War unscathed).
Gdańsk Hotel faces the beautiful Gdańsk Marina on a tributary off the Martwa Wisła river (which in turn is a branch of the Vistula river which runs from the ancient Polish capital of Krakow in the south, through the modern capital Warsaw to the Baltic sea where Gdańsk is).
Gdańsk (formerly known as Danzig) is the largest beer brewing centre of Poland. Brovarnia Gdansk's 18th century brewery is the oldest still in operation in Gdańsk.
The centuries old microbrewery refreshes itself by constantly creating new beers. They brew lager, schwarzier (dark beer), wheat beer, and specialty beers like "smoked beers", Christmas chocolate beer etc.
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Today, Brovarnia Gdansk still make beers to the Bavarian Rule of Purity standard, proclaimed in 1516 by Duke William IV in Ingolstadt (Bavaria) who decreed that "... in all respects in our cities, towns and marketplaces no beer contains ingredients other than barley, hops and water ... ".
Brovarnia Gdańsk beers are renowned as they regularly win awards.
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Everyday, Brovarnia Gdańsk offers 2 kinds of freshly brewed pale beers (Golden Brovarni and wheat spring water), and 1 dark beer (Old Danzig) on tap.
The fresh brews are all piped straight from the brewing tanks to the taps and our jugs or mugs.
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As a beer lover, fresh beers are wonderfully refreshing and delicious. Brovarnia Gdansk beers come in minimum 1 litre mugs 😂 (On the other hand, I have weaned off hard liquor for a long time.)
Brovarnia Gdańsk is a full fledged restaurant besides a microbrewery and bar. Lots of fresh beer and hearty food is a great combination 😄
We started off with mushroom filled perogies (pronounced pierre-row-geese ) appetisers. Polish perogies are similar to Chinese dumplings but with different fillings like ground meat, sauerkraut, mushrooms, spinach, buckwheat, potatoes etc in the wheat flour envelopes.
Today's perogies were filled with sauerkraut, mushrooms, golden onion and butter.
Tangy savoury sweet beetroot soup known as barszcz (pronounced va-shhi) to get our salivary glands into overdrive.
Yay! my goose confit (Yay! because goose is not something we can get easily back in Singapore 😃 ).
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The meaty goose drumstick confit was so tenderly juicy and nicely savoury with subtle underlying goose gaminess. (Goose confit is made by slow cooking brined goose leg in rendered fat at low temperature for a long time.)
Here it was served with caramelised beetroot, potato gratin and cranberry sauce.
Creamy sweet dessert - chocolate mousse with nuts and raisins.
Recommended for you 👍 When you come to beautiful Gdańsk, Brovarnia Gdańsk restaurant is a port you have to call in at. Great award winning, daily fresh beers on tap with delicious traditional Polish food.
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Restaurant name: Brovarnia Gdańsk
Address: Szafarnia 9, 80-755 Gdańsk, Poland
GPS: 54°20'57.2"N 18°39'37.9"E 🌐 54.349231, 18.660539
Tel: +48 58 320 19 70
Hours: 1:00pm - 11:00pm
Date visited: 3 Dec 2019
The Polish got their perogies from the Central Asians, who were also responsible for introducing dumplings (and noodles) to China.
ReplyDeleteWould've loved to try the goose confit.
Hi Pete, thank you for the insight. I also had Silesian dumplings which looked very similar to Hakka suan pan zi (abacus seed) :-D Fascinating how food connects people.
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