We took you to the Sure Bar for drinks before and after reading that it served ‘the best burger in Poland’ according to the usually accurate tourist magazine In Your Pocket, we decided this would be the place to close out an indulgent week of birthday celebrations.
We’ll cut to the chase, it was not the best burger in Poland. It was not even the best burger in Gdansk – the £8 (38 PLN) dense, flavourless meat patty falling into second place behind the £1 (5 PLN) McRoyal from McDonalds. If you are looking for the best burger in Gdansk, save your money and head for the golden arches.
Fish in Gdansk has been good, but we’ve never had a battered fillet. The fish is served looking a bit sorry for itself. The batter a little soggy on the top… as if it has been left resting somewhere… but where has the deep fried fillet been sitting? A quick flip and the answer is obvious – it’s been sat keeping warm a touch too long under the grill.
We really wonder why a restaurant/pub that is trying to elevate the quality of international food in Gdansk would let something like this out of the kitchen. Anyway, the waiter was apologetic and offered a replacement, but as we had an early flight the next day we were short for time and picked out the cod within. The fish that could be salvaged from between the soggy and burnt portions was ok, but the lemon mayonnaise (definitely not tartare sauce as described) was really nice and woke up the chalky chips.
The seating options for dining are realistically limited to five tables at the rear of the bar. Unfortunately this left us sitting right next to one couple and only a couple of tables away from another. In a bar that only had six people in it, that meant social awkwardness, whispering for everyone and the embarrassment that comes with photographing one’s food.
We quite like having a drink here. The cocktails are expensive, but interesting and well made and hotel gave us an opportunity to do a bit of ‘celebrity spotting’ when we came for a drink after stumbling into a premiere up the road.
So when you are in Gdansk, for cocktails come to the Sure, to be sure, but set your eating expectations low.
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Sure Bar
Radisson Blu Hotel
Dlugi Targ 19
80-828 Gdansk
The food looks awfully dry. Your photography might have actually made it look prettier.
Whoosh, that hamburger looks bad! As does the fish! That patty is pretty sad… way too uniformly pate-looking.
@jen Thanks, it gets a bit dull snapping sub standard food though!
@Rachel Can’t wait to head stateside for some *real* burgers – I think Texas is the right place to be visiting!
It’s easy to know why you can see this kind of food in Tri-City. Most of the chefs don’t have the knowledge of good cooking, service and gastronomy… And if you show them or tell them what to do, they don’t listen to you
I know that, I’m working in restaurants in Gdansk.
The good chefs are abroad. Some are coming back, but it’s not enough to change things yet in Tri-City…
Interesting to hear from someone on the inside – we admit we have had far more below average meals in the Tricity than good ones. Hopefully things will improve – we look forward to coming back in a year or so and finding a thriving restaurant scene!
I went to the kitchen of Radisson Blu and talked to the head chef. In fact the menu is made in Brussel for all Radisson Blu Hotel.
They get the recipes, make them, take the pictures and send everything back to Brussels for approval. There is no possibility to change anything.
But of course, depending on the team, the same dish would taste different if you’re in Gdansk or in Dublin (I think they have one there).