FUN WITH TOFIFEST
HAVE FUN with TOFIFEST
Toruń is a town simply created for festivals' guests. In the daytime you can enjoy one of dozens splendid restaurants, offering Italian, Polish or Austrian cuisine, and even Japanese sushi. The evenings and nights you can spend in one of Old Town's over 100 pubs, clubs or discotheques [on the Old Town's area there are altogether over 250 clubs, pubs, restaurants and coffee houses!]. In the summertime, and our Festival starts in July, dozens of open-air cafes, outdoor restaurants and other places appear.
Here you will find out which clubs we recommend as TOFIFEST OFFICIAL CLUBS, which clubs and pubs are taking part in a special partnership project of our Festival - LICENCE to TOFIFEST [TOFIFEST films screenings and special reduced prices for Festival's guests].
Remember - at our Festival we have the habit of discussing the cinema not only during the screenings and meetings, but also in Festival's clubs, where we sometimes sit and talk till dawn.
PS: one also can - or even should - dance
FESTIVAL'S OFFICIAL CLUB
ENERDE
ul. Browarna 6
Website: http://www.myspace.com/enerde
ENERDE LOVES TOFIFEST
Fun, music and art at Tofifest
YUMMY, YUMMY - FOOD at TOFIFEST
Between the screenings it is good to have a bite to eat. And in Toruń there is a good offer. On as much ancient as in famous Cracow OLD TOWN you will find numerous restaurants with various world cuisines. The fun in Toruń lasts as long as you want it to, and the prices are as hospitable as Torunians themselves.
A half-a-litre glass of beer for 1.5 Euro is common. As weel as good. two-meal dinner for 4 Euros. Excellent Polish vodkas, world well-liked Polish cuisine, but also Italian, French, Austrian, Arabic, Vietnamese and Japanese. Toruń is a peculiar town - for next to expensive restaurants it offers a wide range of cheap, good food and drinking, worth tasting.
The specialty of Torunian gastronomy are not only world-famous gingerbread, but the best in Poland pancakes. The most delicious are in the net of „Manekin” restaurants [Wysoka Street, Old Town Market, Gagarina Street]. The prices are from 2 to 4 Euros for dish!
It is worth to go to the cheap bars, in which Torunians and students board. Born in the 1980s Polish reply to hamburger, the „zapiekanka”, has its best taste in Poland in the bars near the Jesuits' church at the Old Town Marker. In the times of communist regime there were so-called „bary mleczne” ("milk bars") created, and they reigned in Poland in the 1960s and 1970s. They offer „Polish domestic cuisine”. At present you can go to three such bars - at Różana Street, at Szczytna Street and to the famous „Garmaż - Bar Miś” (Delicatessen - Bear Bar) at Old Town Market [preserved for tourists in the untouched state since the 1970s]. The pearl of Torunian alternative gastronomy is family, small place with traditional cuisine "Piąta Klepka" at Podmurna Street. Polish typical „pirogies”, „żurek soup”, „bigos” you will eat at "U sołtysa" or in "Spichrz" [both at Mostowa Street].
Torunian... kebabs are also holding tight. The best you will eat in several places at gothic Szewska Street. Caution! Toruń is famous for pizza. The best are served at "Stara Browarna" and "Neapolitana" [both at Mostowa Street], at "Zebra" [at Franciszkańska Street], or at "Farfalla/Staromiejska" [at Szczytna Street]. You can either go to expensive and fancy restaurant, or to climatic pub. One has a wide choice in Toruń.
For the amateurs of national cuisines there are: Austrian cuisine at Servus Restaurant [Żeglarska Street], Hungarian cuisine at Hungaria [Prosta Street], Italian specials at already mantioned Staromiejska and Neapolitana, and Meridian [Kościuszki Street] and Da Vinci [Żeglarska Street]. Arabic shawarmas you will find at Sphinx [Old Town Market], and Japanese sushi at Dom Sushi [Franciszkańska Street]. And the Vietnamese are inviting to Lotos at Strumykowa Street.
The seekers of Polish pirogies are invited to Pierogarnia Stary Toruń [Most Pauliński Street] and to Leniwa [Ślusarska Street].
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Visitors to Torun have at their disposal restaurants of different standard and featuring both foreign and Polish cuisine. The majority of restaurants, cafés, night clubs and pubs have a nice location - occupy historical interiors or medieval cellars, all painstakingly restored, also designed so as to stay in harmony with modern furniture.
Visitors who are short of time and travelling on a budget may choose to eat in a canteen or fast-food bars where they can have a two-course meal for only 15 zl.
Those who enjoy good food in a pleasant atmosphere will not be disappointed in Torun.
