Enjoy a gourmet stay with a 7-course tasting dinner by renowned chef Marcin Filipkiewicz and an exhibition of paintings by Waclaw Onak.
Let's rediscover Polish cuisine! After all, nowadays we like to travel to different countries to get to know the local gastronomy, why not get to know the cuisine of our direct neighbours?
Marcin Filipkiewicz
"What I do is a job, a hobby and an art for me."
- For 20 years he was the head chef at the 5* Hotel Copernicus in Krakow (which was one of the first in Poland to introduce a seasonal tasting menu). During this period, he won the recognition of both guests and the gastronomic industry and became one of the most prominent names among Polish chefs.
- In 2017, he was awarded the Prix au Chef de'lAvenir by the Academy of Gastronomy.
- For the Copernicus Hotel restaurant, he won a silver statuette in the Culinary Hermes 2016 Restaurateur's Guide competition in the Hotel Restaurant category.
- He has been nominated twice for the Gault&Millau Polish Chef of the Year award, and was awarded the Gault&Millau Southern Polish Chef of the Year title.
- He participated in the creation of the book "Wykwintna Kuchnia Polska", which was published under the auspices of President Anna Komorowska.
- He has had the honour of cooking for many crowned heads, religious dignitaries, politicians and artists, including Pope John Paul II, the Emperor of Japan, Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Jacques Santer, Czesław Miłosz and Wisława Szymborska.
- Today you can see him at the Stary Niedźwiedź Hotel in Zakopane and on the Polish version of Master Chef.
Initially, he was fascinated by French and Italian cuisine. Polish cuisine seemed banal to him. But over time he discovered that Polish cuisine, even the most traditional, could be presented in an attractive way. And it is these dishes, traditional and simple, that he wants to serve in a new, elegant way, without losing their traditional taste.
In the words of Marcin Filipkiewicz: "A chef is a person who succeeds or fails in the moment. Jamie Oliver said that if you're serving dinner to ten people, eight of whom are happy and two of whom are not, then you have to focus only on those two negative reviews and think what you can fix."
We hope that you will all leave Marcin's dinner satisfied, and that it will be a success for both us and Marcin.
Waclaw Onak
He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He has presented his works at solo and collective exhibitions in Poland and abroad. His paintings are in private collections in Belgium, Germany, France, Spain, Japan, England, Sweden, USA, Brazil, Australia and Poland.
See a sample of his works here
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