Smaki Gruzji

Just finished dinner there and it was fine but not a 4 star. The place is clean and there is English menu and wait staff was friendly and spoke decent English.
The problem is the food and that’s mostly why we write these reviews. A friendly patron noticing my obviously foreign root (Asians stand out like dandelions in Krakow), recommended a great appetizer with eggplants and other vegetables. I then ordered a meat Kabob for main entrée, thinking this should be pretty easy to make. However, the meat was so overcooked that the two skewers of meat kabobs could pass as big pieces of turd from a large doberman.
The saving grace was the sauce which added back some of the flavor to the dried up meat. Don’t know if I will go back.

I’m not an expert when it comes to Georgian cooking. Everything I know comes from Gruzińskie Chaczapuri. I’m quite fond of chinkali (dumplings) and charczo (soup). The dishes are definitely much better here. The charczo is simply superb. It’s a soup you can’t eat standing up cause you knees would buckle.
Prices aren’t terribly high, but portions are pretty small here. You really need to order multiple dishes if you want to leave satisfied. Expect to drop around 50zł or so.

A big potential wasted by mid quality food and not enough space.

Real Georgian restaurant. Big amount of known labels of Georgian wines. Nice and compitent service. Meat is prepared in a right way, not just regular grill.

I’ve had dinner here twice and it’s time to write my review.
In order from best to worst.
I was lucky enough to be there with an amazing group of friends ( Unilocalers!).
It’s in a really easy to get to location one block from Stradom tram stop.
The place is clean and comfortable.
The wine has been consistently good. This was a little surprising to me actually because I’d never thought of Georgia as a wine country. It clearly is.
The service was not horrible nor was it particularly attentive.
The portions are mostly very small. I’ll admit that I’m spoiled because portions in the USA are far too big.
My mushroom appetizer had plenty of food but it was supposed to have Georgian Spices which I can only assume means parsley and salt because I was unable to detect anything else. Boring, but edible.
The salmon with pomegranate sauce! Oh, where to begin? Best first of course, the sauce was very tasty. It had a nice balance which really made pomegranate flavor pop! Unfortunately it was served with wildly overdone rice that was more like mush than grains of rice. I’ve had (much) better rice directly from microwave bags at the shop. Really bad. Luckily the rice helped to provide balance for the salmon. I felt terrible for the salmon. It gave us it’s life which means to me that we owe it the honour of being respected; cooked delicately and served with care; instead it was cooked to a dry, bone filled, over cooked mess. I can’t believe whoever cooked it would have eaten it. I also can’t believe they served it. Perhaps it’s typical of salmon preparation in Georgia where I can only assume there are no salmon anywhere nearby which would explain if the traditional preparation requires such harsh overcooking to protect the health of the dinner. Who knows?
Perhaps I’m doing it all wrong in this place but if they can’t do this will they should take them off the menu. I can’t be expected to know what they do and don’t know how to cook.
Ok perhaps in being too harsh… But I’ll stop now so I have some vitriol left for my next review. :)

This is the only place that Georgians go to in Krakow. They have an impressive selection of wine, and my flatmate fell in love with their Adjara khatchapouri (boat shaped bread pastry with eggs and melted cheese in the middle), lobio (beans), and vegetarian dishes. They have really good skewered meats as well.
Wine is dirt cheap here. You can have a lovely glass of white or red for 5zl a glass and they pour generously.
Service is lovely as are the people.

I had only tried Georgian food once before. That was at Winnica Restaurant in Kielce and then the only thing I had tried there was a very tasty, thick, oven-​baked soup with a dough lid. So, I was quite keen to try some other dishes. The interior of this restaurant is a little odd. It’s fairly dark inside. Not great for taking photos, that’s for sure. There is only room for twenty or so diners and a large projector screen looms over the bar/​serving area.
The first minor disappointment was that no beer whatsoever was available (I was looking forward to sampling Georgian beer for the first time). One of my fellow diners sampled some original Georgian lemonade and the rest of us had to settle for Georgian wine. It wasn’t too much of a hardship as Georgians have been making wine for 6,000 years, so they are quite good at it now ;)
My main course was very good. «McWadi» consisted of pork on a skewer, served with seasoned chips and surowki (shredded vegetables). The meat was tasty, but on the verge of being overcooked. The chips were like my mother used to make; this is not meant as a compliment… The surowki was probably the best I’ve ever had. Like the chips it was flavoured with coriander. If you don’t like coriander then you’re screwed.
So, all in all, we all had a fairly good meal. Availability (or rather non-​availability) of beer goes against them and also some of the starters had also run out. Another quibble I have is that there were only five options for the main course. Ok, perhaps a restaurant should just have a handful of signature dishes and do them very well, but I prefer to have a semi-​decent choice.
The food here is yummy, really good value and I’m told (by people who have been to Georgia) authentically Georgian. I’ll be back here at some point to sample the rest of the menu.