We Found Europe's Best Christmas Market in Poland

Welcome to snowy Poland, the best kind of weather to explore the different Christmas markets. So our goal is to find the best Christmas market here in Poland so we are going to three different cities but it would be rude not to start with the castle here in Warsaw. So the Christmas market is located in the Old Town section of Warsaw. There's a beautiful 30 meter tall Christmas tree as a centerpiece and a bunch of little kiosks. We're hungry so let's go. It is the season to be jolly There's so many beautiful smells around here mainly like caramelized onion and sausages. I don't know where to start and it's the most important decision that we're going to have to take today. And it's hard because we're both really hungry so we both really can't do that. Do you think that mailbox is to send something to Santa Claus? I think so. Thank you so much. Okay. Okay, first up. A massive, massive authentic sausage. This thing is probably about like 12 inch long. It looks delicious, very smoky. Comes with some bread, pickles, onions but we're just going to do the sausage with mustard first. Is it as good as I think it is? Yes. So this sausage was 45 zloty which is uh which is not cheap. This is definitely Christmas market pricing. It's not good. So it also comes with bread. You can probably eat the bread separately but I'm choosing to make a mini sandwich out of it. Since it comes with all those toppings I feel like this is the intended way of eating it and it's even better. It's so good. I don't know if it's just because we're super hungry but that was fantastic. Up next zapiekenka and get ready in that video. I'm going to be butchering so many different food words but this is basically an open sandwich with cheese, salami, mushroom and a bunch of delicious looking things. So we're going to go get that for 40 zloty? Zloty? See? It comes with different types of topping. It's a Polish subway. Thank you so much. And talking about subway this is way more than a foot long. This is a full baguette cut in half but you get the full the full size of it. Is it great? The bread is so much more airy. I was worried it was going to be like way too heavy but it's perfectly light and airy. This is really good. For topping we chose the garlic sauce which we love garlic sauce on everything so that's for sure a good choice. And then jalapenos for a little bit of like vinegar tangy like oh it's really good but like Tracy said it's the quality of the bread. When Tracy's doing a little food dance this is when you know it's really good. When I saw the size of this I thought it was going to be extremely heavy and I was like I don't know how we're going to eat anything after that but I'm pleasantly surprised like the bread everything is actually quite light and fluffy which is fantastic. Am I stubbing my teeth? No. So like every Christmas market there is food there is mulled wine and then there's like craftsmanship in the back usually as well but we are here mainly for the food. And because of the proximity of Poland and Hungary there's actually a different Hungarian option which we really like especially langos and the famous world famous I might say traditional chimney cake. If you've never had one of those you gotta do it. And just to warm up time to get a mulled wine. That should keep you nice and warm. It's different. It has a lot of cinnamon in it. It's more spicy than I would say we're used to. It's pretty good and it's keeping my hands warm. Okay yeah interesting I am no fan of like mulled wine at least not as much as Tracy is. This one is really good definitely more on the spice side than the wine side. So correction after both of us tasting it there is cinnamon but it's more heavy on the clove. Not normally huge fan of clove but it's okay in this. So obviously all the little craft kiosks are one of ones they're all unique selling different things from ornaments to wallets hats and all but in terms of food it seems to be pretty much the same thing on one side of the market to the other side of the market like you often see in different European markets. So something I have heard is the cheese here it's like a smoked cheese and I want to try it out with some cranberries. Apparently it's very very salty. So we have some like fried cheese here with cranberry. Sorry my hands are frozen so it's kind of hard to get them to work right now. That is really good. It is insanely smoky like yeah you almost think it's like a sausage like it has that smoky obviously it's cheese but like it's that smoky works fantastic with the cranberry. The translation of this in English is actually grilled cheese from the mountain and I'm like does mountain produce cheese or the animal that produces this cheese lives on the mountain who knows. The only other texture of cheese that I can think of right now that is similar to this cheese is a loomy cheese. It's like this thick chewy squeaky cheese. It's really really good and Tracy is right like it is extremely smoky in a good way like it's delicious. I mean grilled cheese what's not to love. And we ended up getting a large one there are smaller pieces in this but since we're sharing it was 18. 18 what? Zolty. Zolty? I don't know. So we just realized that the cheese that we ate is actually sheep cheese which means coming from sheep milk and I feel like we've never heard of sheep milk. I'm So if you watched our series last year on the Christmas markets you would know that our one in Hungary was actually our favorite. The food everything about it was fantastic but since we're not going there this year we decided to get a Hungarian dish here langos. Thank you. Oh that looks great. It's so fresh she made it just for us. Because there's not a lot of people around. So for 40 we got the classic and basically what it is is a fried piece of dough with garlic and cream and cheese. I mean we can't go wrong with that. What's not to love. It's so fresh. As good as I can remember from last year. It's so simple. We're not in Hungary but it tastes just like we were. Well the food was delicious the sausage definitely the highlight. That was the highlight. The one thing it's missing according to us there was no traditional Polish sweet. Yeah like not like a bakery stand or anything they had the Hungarian chimney cakes. Yeah which is from Hungary they had like chocolate covered strawberries that has nothing to do with Poland and churros nothing to do with Poland either. So we have two more cities to try to find a true authentic sweet. Yeah I'm very excited for this. So that's it for Warsaw. Up next I don't know where we're going up next. Where are we going? Krakow. That's probably not how you say that but whatever. Well let's start walking it sounds pretty far from here. Welcome to Krakow here in Poland. We are here for the Christmas market but you might be wondering who's filming right now. Is it Tracy? Not quite. Is it a cameraman? Not bad either. This is actually the Hover Air X1 Pro Max. Today's sausage. So here are a couple things that I love about this little drone. First of all you can fold it just like that and when it's folded it fits literally in your pocket. I mean how great is that? But what's the most impressive about this drone is the fact that even though it is super tiny it can shoot in 4k 60 frames or wait for it 8k 30 frames. Yes this little drone can shoot in 8k. So this little drone has over 15 different flying modes which you can control manually straight with your phone which is super cool to get your unique shot but where it truly shines is when it's doing its smart tracking which we have different modes like this one orbit to show everything that's going on around you. And our personal favorite the follow me mode. This allows the drone to basically follow you in the environment wherever you are and it becomes your personal cameraman which is super nice when we want a shot of the both of us or if you are a solo traveler that is ideal. Also can we just appreciate the audio that you're hearing right now and if you're wondering how do I remove the buzzing sound from the drone well I don't. The Hover Air does it automatically just for you. And if you're wondering how to land it you just put your hand underneath simple as that. So if you want to get yourself the perfect travel filming companion well check out our link in the description for the Hover Air X1 Pro Max and by the way this makes a great Christmas gift. So where is this market? This is actually in front of the Mariaca Basilica here and honestly it's the first one that if you just put in Krakow Christmas Market Google Maps brings you right here. So we just entered the market and first impression to be honest this is a billion time better than the one in Warsaw. The one in Warsaw is nice and cute but it's not very big doesn't have a lot of different options. It didn't feel like super Christmassy either. Here that's a Christmas market. But we are here on a Sunday within the first week of operation so it's packed. I mean with reason the Christmas markets in Europe are just the best. So beautiful. My only complaint where's the Christmas music Tracy? That would add to the ambience. So the one thing I was most excited about coming to Poland for the Christmas market was to have true pierogi and starting the market off strong that's what we're gonna start with. Tracy was devastated in Warsaw when she realized that they didn't have any. To be honest I was surprised too. So they had three different savory flavors. They had potato, cheese, and onion which is the one I got. Then they had a cabbage and mushroom one. That would have been really good but I'm not so sure about mushroom. The last one was a meat one. I also got it with caramelized onion. I know those eyes. Incredible. Absolutely incredible. I just want this for the rest of the night. That's it. That would be quite a boring video though. This lives up to the way that I thought they would. Wow. With Tracy's description I have very very high expectations now. Oh and the expectations are met. This is so different than any other pierogies I ever had in other countries. So like I just feel like before this moment right now I had no idea what pierogies was. I love it. I'm just sad because I feel like for the rest of the night we're not going to eat anything that's better than that. So 45 zolty for eight pierogies. Best deal around if you ask me. I don't even want to try the other flavors. Like this is it. I'm just sad that it's done. Okay up next. I keep seeing people walking with that massive meat stick with a bread on top. At some point I'm getting that for sure. Oh Tracy look pierogies. Should we get more pierogies? Yes Up next what I call a Polish hot dog. We're just seeing those people like walking with those giant hot dogs. Like the biggest hot dog I've ever seen. Massive sausage. They look perfectly grilled on fresh bread. I think it's going to be pretty good. It looks incredible and I'm pretty sure it's a foot long sausage. That's what she said. I know. I was like. Bite it at the same time. But I'm gonna have to get a bite of just the sausage. That's really hot. Don't do that at home. That was the crunchiest sausage I've ever had in my life. Like that snap. So on the sausage we have mustard, pickled, I think like a pickled pepper. Yeah fried onion. Sauerkraut and that's it. The sausage is so smoky and juicy. So this was like 50. That ain't cheap. It's pretty big though. I'm scared you're gonna put this everywhere. I'm gonna do my best. How? How? I know. Just gotta go for it. You literally have to be two people to eat that. One's eating and the other one is just saving the toppings. Those pickles are like mom's bread and pickles. Oh like your mom's pickles. Shout out to you Myrna. That is fantastic. There are so many flavors. Yeah you gotta eat like top and then bottom. The bread is incredible too. You can tell that this was made this morning. The more we eat it the harder it gets. So flavor 10 out of 10. Ease to eat one out of 10. So now we're on the hunt for something sweet and we saw somewhere that they had a Polish donut while we're in Poland. Might as well get it. It tastes like a Christmas bun. I don't know how to explain it. Mom used to make them at Christmas time but it has like a donut and then a glaze with like citrus rind on it. There is jam in here somewhere I just haven't hit it yet. But it's very good. Looking for the jam. Oh yeah there you go. My favorite thing about this donut is that it's the cheapest thing we've got in this market. It's really good. It would be even better heated up in a microwave. This is like a yeast donut. Pretty good but I would have been mad if it was more than 10. So the Christmas market here in Krakow is pretty big. There's well over a hundred different vendors but if you watch our videos from Slovakia it's pretty much the opposite of Slovakia. Mainly things with a little bit of food. Yeah but really good food. Yeah very good especially the pierogies. There's also like an indoor section. You can definitely tell these ones are more like they're just here year-round with a little bit of extra for Christmas but I think this would be open if you came here any time of year. This looks great. Next up we have a gingerbread cookie. I don't normally go for these but there's something that's just calling my name this time. Not as crunchy as I expected. The flavor is actually very good. I got more on the softer side. A little bit dry but it's also cold right now so it just needs to be like in a warm environment. But I'm impressed. I'm glad I picked this one. It is pretty good. Texture is really nice. A bit dry but probably one of the best gingerbread cookie I ever had to be honest. With that being said is it worth 20 zloty? Probably not. Probably not. Meat on stick with a bread it is time. I've been waiting for that since we arrived. This smells incredible. It's also like a showstopper. Everyone is like looking at people walking with those sticks. I mean come on like it looks incredible. Apart from being a great stick like if you're a tour guide like in the in the crowd just walk like that like this is great. I think it's pork. It's just like skewer and it was 45 zloty. So everything else there is pork. So I assume this is as well. That's really good. Oh wow. Fresh from the grill. Super well seasoned. Nice and salty. You know what I mean? Like this would be great with a beer. But also like great quality meat. Juicy. Like cooked to perfection. Come here get your meat stick. A good presentation and good meat. Like the grill is good without being like too much char. Fair enough. I think you're supposed to make a sandwich out of it maybe. Maybe you're supposed to make a sandwich out of that. I don't really want to make a sandwich. I don't have a knife so I'll make a sandwich in my mouth if that makes sense. Great mix. So if we had more time here I would love to go to some of those outside patios. They look so cozy and the ambiance amazing. But for now we gotta go to Gdansk. But first a quick word about Krakow. Which by the way I know it looks like it's spelled Krakow but apparently it's pronounced Krakow. Anyway delicious food. So many options if you want to find like special crafty like Christmas gifts for your families like it's the perfect place for that. But the food. Highlight no surprise. The pierogies I mean. I yeah. I never want to eat anything else. Yeah they were everything I thought they were going to be and more. Like so much flavor, texture, amazing. Could have ate those all night would have been happy. Yeah. Number two for me. Yeah. We have different opinions. Okay. That's okay. Number two for me is the sausage. Yeah. It was so good. Yeah. Yeah. And for me it's like the meat on the stick. I mean not only it's cool to walk around with it like it's a massive meat lollipop but also like the meat was just 10 out of 10 well seasoned so good. Now like she said uh off to the next city. So welcome to Gdansk. Still here in Poland and we are not even at the Christmas market yet but this place has a lot of potential because just the city itself has such a cute little charm and with all the Christmas light and Christmas decoration it brings it to a 10 out of 10 already. Um yeah so I just got very distracted by a pretty looking street store that I kind of want to go in. We're gonna go eat dessert like right now. I just I just want to look. We wish you a Merry Christmas! This Christmas market is huge. It even requires a map but we're going to go to the number one spot that we're really curious about in the Disney Plus area if we can pass by these booths and not eat anything. Highly unlikely. So according to their own website and this sign as well, they won best Christmas market last year and somehow this year again. I don't know how it's possible to already know which one is the best Christmas market of 2025 where they literally opened like a couple days ago. But anyway I'm going to take that with a grain of salt but to be honest the potential is extremely high. Christmas is ruined. It didn't say that online but apparently the Disney Plus section doesn't open until tomorrow and of course tomorrow we're bright and early on a bus. I'm sad. But the rest of the market looks incredible. You know even the table says it so it must be true. Otherwise this looks incredible. I am so excited for this and I think we start off strong. This is only $35. $32 glotzy anyway and like that's fantastic. They've got some like I think it's like pork, pork sausage or bacon. I think the bottom is like a type of lard, pickles, spring onion, onions. Got it all. Let's go. It has everything you want like the fattiness, the saltiness and then with like the vinegar from the pickles. Mmm. This is really good. Tracy's dancing behind the camera so that means it's really good. This is one of my favorite things that we've got in Poland so far at Aldo Christmas Market. That's really good. This is really nice. The bread is so good. Like this was made this morning for sure. It's perfectly balanced. Just like the massive hot dog the other day, 10 out of 10 flavor but ease of eating 1 out of 10. Easier than the hot dog. What? That's way worse than the hot dog. See? Modernity. It's so good. So good. Finally, there's Christmas music. Like I don't know why but this is literally the first Christmas market of the year for us. This is our fourth one and the only one with Christmas music. Finally, finally. While in Poland, of course, we had to do a little stop in Switzerland for some raclette, delicious melty cheese on potatoes. This is so good. That is a lot of cheese for something that's lactose intolerant like Tracy. Thank you so much. Feel how heavy this is. Oh. This is like probably like 3 pounds of potatoes and cheese. All the ingredients you need for a healthy diet. Yes and no. It's just like heartwarming. Do you need two forks or can I get one? She's like double fisting. The pickled onion in there. Right? Tastes like Switzerland. Oh and there's like some sort of prosciutto. With the prosciutto, the potato, and the cheese, that is the perfect bite. Wow. Okay, you're lactose intolerant so I'm gonna leave with that. This place has Oreo hot chocolate. We're gonna check it out. This kiosk or actually like almost a full restaurant because they have like an inside too. It doesn't look like it's here all the time but it's much more like intricate than the other one. But what a weird mix of options. It's either like drinks like glue vine and the hot chocolate and rotisserie chicken. It is so toasty in here like the camera's fogging. That's so hot. But one of the best hot chocolate I ever had. That's really good. Wow. That's good. I just said that I'm never gonna be able to taste anything again but there's even like crushed up Oreos like on top of it which is great. Oh, it's gonna be cold again. It's actually not that bad. It's probably like zero right now. It's just it's humid so like when you get a chill, it's like ugh. Yeah. Also, this place with a little bit of snow in a couple of weeks, that's gonna look even better. We just found an indoor section. Inside is like local art design and these maps are just incredible. Whoa. This place is huge. They have a lot of arts more like the arts and crafts like you would know of a crafter but yeah, it's very nice. They really have it all from jewelries to nutcrackers to giant pierogies pillows. I mean, whatever you want, you'll find it here. We're a bit sad we're gonna do this roller coaster but it's like 25 zloty a person which is almost 10 Canadian dollar a person like it's outrageous so we're not doing the roller coaster. And now to drown our tears, we're gonna get something sweet. So you have two options. I really want to get both but I won't. One is a royal cheesecake they call it and the other one is a cinnamon bun. I don't know what to get. Not certain. It's not what I thought it was gonna be. I wonder if it's something to do with like Polish cheesecake. They also did warm it up which throws me off a bit. Hmm. Not my favorite. At least what I'm really happy about is this was only 17 also known as about half the price of one ticket for the roller coaster. That's disappointing. It looks so good. Yeah, this is more cheesy than a minis cake. Wouldn't recommend. So we just realized that there's something across the street. We just saw this massive Christmas tree but it's surrounded by boots as well and there's even one with a Canadian flag so now I'm very intrigued. It's quirky. Just walks around different Christmas market with a fork. You always keep a fork. The story is that most places have wooden forks and it just doesn't work sometimes so when you find a place with a plastic fork you just gotta keep it. So this is, I've named him Forky. Look at this cute little tunnel. It's not TJ Maxx here, it's TK Maxx. Oh. Why? I don't know. So the Canada booth is basically selling beaver tails. They can't call it a beaver tail because that's an actual brand but it's basically the same thing. The dough with the fillings and stuff and they do have real maple syrup from Canada which is always a 10 out of 10. But Tracy's already gone because she's on a mission. She saw something that she really wants and it is a giant cookie. I have a feeling it's gonna be best heated up. There's like a self-service microwave right there. Yeah. How convenient. This sure looks like redemption. I mean look at this. I really think so and it smells like redemption too. This is everything we wanted the other one to be as well. We pretty much like within the last three cities try all the main thing that we had to try while here in Poland. So now we're getting a fresh Italian pasta dish. It looks incredible and everything that you see there it's not fake. No, no, no. This is real parmesan. Like literally real parmesan on the table. Enjoy. That's a lot of parmesan. That is my kind of snow. Don't get me wrong. If this was actually snow it would smell funny everywhere all winter but it's yummy. They didn't give us a fork but that is not a problem for Tracy. She's been carrying that all day. I told you there's a reason it comes in handy. Wow. Okay, so we got truffle. The truffle smell is so strong. I can already tell we're gonna have truffle smell and taste for a very long time. My hands are a little frozen. Sorry, I can't twirl very well right now. That parmesan. Ten out of ten. I do think the truffle and the parmesan together, they're both very strong flavors, might be a lot. Let's just say that. But it's very good. Talking about parmesan can we just appreciate that this guy probably have about 70 to 80 dollars worth of parmesan on the table just sitting for decoration. That is fantastic. Let's just say we're ending with this so we're already full so the richness is like. I'm so not hungry but I'm appreciating every single bite though. But I do like that it's just fresh ingredients and like the pasta itself is really good, done to perfection, like of course you would think it is. 42 zolti. Zolti? Zolti. 42 zolti, well spent. Traci's running because we just found a giant stitch right there. So as we walk in front of Stitch there, Gdansk is where it's at. Definitely the best grocery market that we've done here in Poland and to be honest, one of my favorite of all times across all the different European countries that we've visited in the last two years. It has the perfect ambiance. They do say come through this week and we're here on a Wednesday so like it is much lower than what it probably is on a weekend but you have like the pretty Christmas lights, you have all the types of food. It might be a little bit hard for us to transpire how beautiful and unique the ambiance here but imagine this same place that we've showed you covered in snow. It would be like fantastic. Right now it's like it's gray, it's cold, it's raining a little bit but it is such a beautiful place. So it's really funny that we've done the three Christmas markets kind of in order of how they are. Yeah. Like Warsaw, then Krakow and then here is definitely the best one. Yeah, here's the best one. I think because we had the best overall food, Krakow was so good and they just stand out because they had the best pierogies. Yeah. But then the first dish that we had here, that bread was amazing. But I would say this one is my favorite. What about you? If I'm taking in everything as a whole, then yes, this one. And to be honest, Gdansk is the most beautiful town that we've been to in Poland. It's amazing. The buildings are just incredible, the little patios everywhere. It is such a beautiful place. I want to come back in the summer. Yeah, that would be nice. But now, we've got to wake up super early tomorrow to take a bus because we're going to Lithuania. You're almost there. So until next time, see you guys. In the next one.