We've just
come back from an alternative food festival, Foodstock: Berlin
Edition, which took place today in an old communist Forum Hotel in
Kraków. Upon entering the Forum Przestrzenie restaurant, we
encountered a tangle of people, kids and dogs, surrounded by the
music played by a DJ. Smells of delicious food were wafting through
the room.
First, we
queued for coupons, which are the official Foodstock currency. One
coupon costs PLN 5 and usually allows to buy one portion of food but
there were also some goods (e.g. burgers) which costed 2 or even 3
coupons.
Then,
we had a look around the food stalls, which were extremely varied:
from sushi, to Indian samosas, to various cakes and fruit shakes. The
most besieged stalls were Hamsa hummus & happiness serving
savoury dishes from the Middle East and Youmiko, where you could
buy a temaki (hand roll sushi). After 15 minutes of standing in a
line for a falafel served in a pita (which was very good, by the
way), I was too weary to take place in another long queue for the
sushi. It's a pity because the temaki looked really nice.
Also
an orange van of Burgertata aroused a keen interested. We had to wait
for over 30 minutes for our burger but it was worth the wait - the
beef was juicy, the bun crunchy and the veggies fresh. The only
vendor who made explicit reference to Berlin, the festival's main
theme, was Gotowanie z pasją blog. They prepared a tart with
Kartoffelsalat (German potato salad) filling and muffins with...
currywurst flavour (currywurst is a German national dish consisting
of a sausage and spicy ketchup). My congratulations on the cook's
creativity! :)
For the
dessert, we bought in BonJour CaVa some lovely fruit tart and a piece
of cake with meringue and black currant jam. I usually don't like
either meringue (it's too sweet for me) or black currants (they're
too sour) but the blend of these two tastes was really fantastic. We
came home loaded with home made bread with prunes and a jar of lard
from the Eco - Chleb stall. Yummy. :)
Foodstock is
a great way to get to know various flavours from around the world in
just one afternoon. The only downside were the enormous queues to
some of the stands but it probably just shows how popular the event
is. The festival gave me a lot of positive energy, not only from all
the delicious calories I've eaten. ;)
Website: here
Website: here
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