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The best street food in Warsaw - City center
Your guide to the best street food in the city centre
- Ostatnio aktualizowane: March 25, 2025
The best street food in Warsaw - City center
Your guide to the best street food in the city centre
- Ostatnio aktualizowane: March 25, 2025
Street food, or street food, is much more than a quick meal on the run. It is often a real feast for the senses. A delicacy served on the corner of a crowded street or in a seemingly humble food truck often represents an impressive wealth of flavours, aromas and history. Today, street food is undergoing a renaissance. It is attracting both local gourmets and tourists looking for authentic experiences and original flavour combinations.
In our guide, we will take you on a journey through the city's most interesting culinary corners, discovering the secrets of street specialities. Where to find the best street food in Warsaw? Centre is a real basin of unique places.
Street food - why you should try it
Street food is a wealth of dishes, forms of serving and culinary innovations. You will enjoy a multitude of simple snacks as well as masterpieces from under the knife of virtuoso chefs. Within a single district, you can travel the world culinarily and taste a multitude of flavours. If you like experimenting, discovering new dishes and eating in an unpretentious atmosphere, street food is something for you!
The best street food in Warsaw - City center
Warsaw street food is not only about food, but also part of a culture that reflects the dynamism and diversity in city life. Walking through the streets centre of WarsawYou will come across food trucks with classic Polish dishes, as well as places serving exotic specialities from Asia, South America or the Middle East. Let yourself be carried away on this extraordinary adventure and discover new flavours that surprise and inspire. With our guide you certainly won't get lost!
In this guide:
Chaiwala
'Chaiwala' is a Hindi and Urdu word that literally means 'person selling tea'. At Warsaw's Chaiwala café, you will indeed enjoy aromatic tea, including its traditional Indian version with milk and spices. Above all, however, you will eat here a classic Indian streaked food prepared according to recipes originating in northern India. These include traditional Indian burgers, fried crispy samosa dumplings, steamed rice cakes with vegetables, roasted rice with chickpea noodles, fried lentil balls in yoghurt sauce, curries and traditional Indian breads.
Chaiwala serves exclusively vegetarian dishes at 100%. As well as dishes for greater hunger, you'll also find sandwiches on the menu. Among them, the bestselling potato and pea stuffed sandwich with cheese and piled high toasted sandwiches with vegetables and mayonnaise served with potato boats. Let's not forget Indian street food is also a sweet treat! At Ogrodowa you will eat, among other things, the traditional Bengali rasgulla, which are balls formed from fresh milk cheese in sugar syrup. Ghewar - a Rajasthani cake made from flour, ghee and sugar syrup - is also an interesting option. Cashew nuts, cardamom, saffron, dried fruits, jaggery, khoa and coconut flakes are also used in creating the sweet flavours here.
Bao Dao Street Food
Bao Dao serves Far Eastern fusion street food. It is primarily fluffy asian buns with a variety of toppings. Both meat (for example, with chicken, carrots in sesame, spicy mayo sauce, wakame, white turnip and sesame), seafood (for example, with prawns marinated in lime juice and kaffir leaves breaded in panko with coconut, with romaine lettuce and pickled spinach), as well as vegetarian (for example, tempura tofu with Oshinko radish, sesame and fresh spring onions).
One of the most popular dishes at Bao Dao is the proprietary Asian Go SHI soup made with coconut milk and lime with coriander, sesame, cherry tomatoes, lemongrass and chilli. There are two versions of the soup to choose from: with tofu or with chicken. The side dishes include a choice of yam fritters, Belgian fries, kimchi, sesame-crusted carrots, wakame with white turnip and edamame with smoked salt. From Monday to Friday from 11am to 4pm, you'll have a two-course lunch at Bao Dao at a good price. Satisfy your thirst with a great kombucha here.
Okienko
Warsaw Window fries are already truly iconic places on the capital's street food map. If you are interested in the best street food, Warsaw Centrum offers delicious fries in as many as two locations. The first location - on Polna Street - has been open for 12 years and was the first fryer in Warsaw. In time, it was joined by a window on Dobra Street in close proximity to the University of Warsaw Library. Belgian fries and yam fries served in biodegradable colourful wrappers with the characteristic inscription 'We love fries' took the hearts of Varsovians and tourists by storm.
Windows uses no palm oil and all sauces are made on site with fresh ingredients. Examples of these include tzatziki, lemon majo on Greek yoghurt with lime, umami majo, green pepper sauce, azure cheese-based sauce. Vegans can also look forward to delicious side dishes. These include a mild vegan cheester, vegan parmesan and edible flowers. The window is a top spot, it is very often featured on social media and you can often meet famous faces here.
Delhi-6 Indian Street Food
Dehli-6 brings the flavours of the streets of New Delhi straight to the Warsaw Centre. One of the restaurant's specialities is the Indian version of Chinese food, a combination of the taste of Indian spices with Chinese ingredients. The chef recommends Chinese noodles prepared in the Indian style in various variants - with vegetables, vegetables and egg or vegetables and chicken. You won't taste this unique flavour anywhere else. To drink, you can choose from traditional mango lassi, sweet lassi, salted masala lassi or masala lemonade.
Dishes you'll also try at Dehli-6 include Indian paneer cheese served in various forms, chicken or mutton curries and vegetarian vegetable dishes with a special spice blend composed on site. For lesser hunger, traditional sandwiches are great, including best-selling toast filled with aromatic potato filling. Regular visitors also highly praise the wraps, of which around ten types are served here.
Baguette Mi
W sercu warszawskiego Śródmieścia kryje się prawdziwa perełka wietnamskiego street foodu – Baguette Mi. To przytulne bistro, prowadzone z pasją przez wietnamską właścicielkę, oferuje autentyczne doznania kulinarne rodem z Hanoi. Specjalnością lokalu jest banh mi – chrupiąca bagietka wypełniona różnorodnymi, aromatycznymi nadzieniami, niezwykle popularne w Wietnamie jedzenie uliczne. W menu znajdziesz kilka wersji tych sycących kanapek, w tym z kurczakiem w sezamie, z kotletem rybnym czy z grillowaną wieprzowiną. Nie brakuje również dań z makaronem, m.in. pełnej smaku zupy udon oraz udonu smażonego w sosie teriyaki. Warta uwagi jest też bogata lunch offer Baguette Mi.
Dla miłośników kuchni roślinnej dostępne jest rozbudowane menu, a w nim warianty wegańskie zarówno banh mi, jak i innych potraw, przygotowane z taką samą starannością i dbałością o smak. Dopełnieniem uczty jest tradycyjna wietnamska kawa albo gorąca herbata, jak Genmaicha (z prażonego ryżu i prażonej czarnej fasoli). Możesz też zdecydować się na jeden z kilku rodzajów buble tea. Jeśli szukasz egzotycznego smaku, street foodu w Warszawie – Centrum, remember this address.
Sen Proroka
This is another place worth visiting in Warsaw's Saska Kępa district. The restaurant advertises itself as "casual street food & bar". Snack freely here even at night. Depending on the day, Prophet's Dream is open until 10 pm or midnight during the week, and until 1 am on Fridays and Saturdays. On weekends, breakfast is served between 9am and 1.30pm. The street food dishes served at Prophet's Dream are inspired by different parts of the world. You'll eat here, among other tasty starters such as fries, calamari and prawns in tempura, jalapeno stuffed with cheddar cheese and very good kimchi. You can count on a relaxed friendly atmosphere and enjoy a beer, one of the cocktails or prosecco.
The specialities of the premises also include bowle (with beef, prawns or vege), large "turboboules" with a variety of toppings and Japanese pancakes with the chef's own toppings. The Prophet's Set, which consists of a compilation of various starters, is very popular. Tip: it's worth asking about promotions. These include discounts on specific dishes on selected days of the week and attractive freebies, such as lemonade added to the turboboule on a specific day.
The best street food - Warsaw city centre tempts with various options
Street food has a loyal fan base for good reason. It offers an accessible way to experience the cuisine of different cultures. Street food is fresh, varied and based on tried-and-tested recipes. Find out for yourself by visiting the places in our guide. These are real hits - without a miss!
