Adrian Mancuso, originally from Melbourne, Australia, lives in Krakow and runs the cool house parties there named Dubniki alongside with his friend Bartłomiej Baran and Leona Jacewska.

I asked him what would be his favourite tips in Krakow :

1) Watch the sun set or rise from FORUM PRZESTRZENIE
Marii Konopnickiej 28
30-302 Cracovie
Ph : +48 888 715 905
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A dilapidated and defunct hotel is one of the coolest buildings in KRK and home to one of Krakow’s greatest views. A great place to end up at 5 am when other parties may have died down. The deck chairs are excellent to take naps in.

2) Eat sushi at YOUMIKO
Szczepańska 7
Kraków
Ph : +48 12 421 26 99
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Hidden away near Plac Szczpanski is the reasonably priced and always fresh Youmiko. There’s only enough room for a dozen or so patrons but you get to watch the chef make everything fresh. Not particularly Polish but you can’t bring a date to go eat Zapiekanki anyway.

3) Go to a DUBNIKI Party
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A proper party in Krakow is unlike anywhere else. The dancefloor is used for dancing, the bar is used for drinking and the crowd is educated and uncynical. I may be biased as I help run the Dubniki nights but they’re labours of love, (definitely not profit).

4) Drink, drink, drink

Bomba, Bunkier Sztuki, Święta Krowa, Alchemia, Miejscie. Krakow is filled with places to drink and people to drink with. Take advantage of it.

5) Geek out at HEX
Dwernickiego 5
31-530 Krakow
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Give your leg muscles and liver a rest and spend a few hours playing board games at HEX. From Eurobusiness (a Polish Monopoly rip-off) to 8 hour space epics, all games are free and the drinks are well priced.

Kornelia Binicewicz is a character apart: cultivated, solar, positive, enthusiastic, she is also the program manager of the Jewish culture festival in Krakow, the world’s largest.

I am super happy to publish her list of favourite places in Krakow cause she is a true Krakow lover.

“5 places I dive in and forget about the world”,

Kornelia Binicewicz

1. Milk Bar Południowy – Bar Mleczny Południowy
Rynek Podgórski 11, Kraków
One of the oldest Milk Bars in Krakow – its beginnings date back to 1949. The bar serves traditional home dishes based mostly on flour, milk, cheese. It is a typical milk bar – very popular during communistic times where you could eat very cheap food. Nowadays there are just a few real milk bars, where you can feel that time stopped. This is absolutely amazing place, owned by two sisters who work there since the 70s. You can feel this unique atmosphere of the past and egalitarism where everybody is equal – business man, hipster or a poor person.

Photo : Szymon Makuch

2. Old restaurant building in Las Wolski – Pawilon Gastronomiczny Las Wolski
Forgotten restaurant in the biggest park of Krakow, situated just close to the ZOO in Las Wolski. The venue is abandoned and hidden in the park but you can easily access to it. It used to be a fancy restaurant and café, visited by celebrities and common people. The building is extraordinary from architectural point of view – its modernistic form is based on so called ship motifs. It was build in 1937 and from the very beginning was perceived as fashionable venue. It is falling apart now and needs a thorough reconstruction.

3. Cheder Cafe
Ul. Józefa 36, Kraków
Venue of Jewish Culture Festival – one of the biggest festival presenting contemporary Jewish culture form around the world. The café is a all year round place of alternative and avant-garde music from Middle East and Poland, meetings, lectures. Workshops. It serves real Israeli hummus, thina and coffee brewed in Arabic kettle called finjan. It is the place where peace in the middle east is possible… and costs less than 3 euros.

4. Miejsce Bar
Ul. Estery 1, Kraków
Small but totally efficient bar, furnished with beautiful vintage furniture. It is a gay place, with cool atmosphere for everyone. Bar serves home made liquors and cakes. It is good to start evening here – testing the flavors of colorful vodka shots or end the night dancing like crazy.

Photo : courtesty of Miejsce Bar

5. Botanic Garden and Museum
Ul. Kopernika 27
Beautiful garden hidden inside the city is a home for many incredibly beautiful plants from around the world. You can explore it all around the year but spring – autumn period is the best. The moment you enter the garden you forget about the whole world behind its frontiers – you can just dive in green and peacefully eat your picnic dishes and drink young summer wine. It is also unforgettable to visit the museum situated inside the garden – totally old-fashioned and dusty gallery of outgrown ridiculous plants or forgotten heroes of botany, that sacrificed their lives to investigate a story of one plant seed. Amazing kunstkamera.

A) FRANCE

Le Bouche à Oreille (gastronomic guidebook for the south east of France)

Le Bouche à Oreille 2 (gastronomic guidebook for the south east of France)

Le Bout de ma Langue (Isabelle Spiri) (blog)

Chez Ptipois (Sophie Brissaud) (blog, food writer)

Chrisoscope 1 (blog)

Chrisoscope 2 (blog)

Cookmyworld (Grégory) (blog)

Cuisinedelamer (Patrick Cadour) (blog)

Don Pasta (dj, chef)

Les Durs à Cuire (Zazie Tavitian) (blog)

Faim de Lyon (Marjorie Fenestre) (blog/communication agency)

The Flying Muffin (blog)

Le Gastronome Parisien (Alexandre) (blog)

Italieaparis (Stefano Palombari) (site)

Kebab-Frites (Benoît Maso) (site)

Dominique Lesbros (écrivain)

Le M.I.A.M (Cyril Musy) (food events)

Du Morgon dans les Veines (Guillaume Nicolas-Brion) (journaliste vin)

La Plus Petite Cuisine du Monde (Claire Pichon) (blog)

Le Nem à la Choucroute (Kim) (blog)

Le Painrisien (Rémi Héluin) (blog)

Pimentoiseau (Létitia)

Resto Routier (site)

Silencio (site)

Philippe Toinard (journaliste, chef)

Les 3 Soeurs (blog)

B) OUTSIDE FRANCE

Allemagne – Berlin Daniel Wang (producteur)

Allemagne – Berlin Headman (producteur)

Angleterre – Londres Hugo Mendez (dj)

Etats-Unis – Ann Arbour JTC (producteur)

Etats-Unis – Los Angeles Kenneth James Gibson (producteur)

Etats-Unis – New York Marcos Cabral (producteur)

Italie – Naples Mauro Gioia (comédien)

Italie – Rome Kobol Electronics (producteur)

Italie – Rome Luciana Squadrilli (journaliste)

Nouvelle-Zélande – Wellington Bet Brash de Eat & Greet (blog)

Slovénie – Slovénie Verte (site d’information touristique)

Turquie – Istanbul Culinary Backstreets (blogger, guide)

Turquie – Istanbul Robyn Eckhardt (freelance writer, blogger)