Chimera

Perfect lunch in the cutest setting - I love this place so much! You pick what you want from the counter in the bar - delicious selection of salads, pastas, veggies and some meat too - and you pay at the bar (super affordable too!!). They have cards with the allergens on each dish too so it’s nice and easy to navigate 💖 Everything is super tasty but the venue is soooo pretty too! So many plants and nice decorations all over

I like coming back to Chimera every time I’m in town. The food is great, interesting dishes, vegetarian dishes available. It’s great that the restaurant goes on for so long. Prices are very sensible.

Great place for an affordable lunch or dinner in the centre square in Krakow. They have a good variety of options both with and without meat. Polish beetroot skup - borsz - costs only 5PLN for a cup. The seating area is very cozy.

When you are in Kraków this is the place where you eat for a very good price and all of the food is fresh really fresh. And a great artistic atmosphere

I was recommended to visit this place and oh I am so happy I did ! Lovely food , very nice service and place itself it’s amazing ! Also price wise fantastic !

My fav canteen in Kraków. A lot of vegetarian options and some meat and fish from time to time. You can choose a set of 1, 4 or 6 different tasty food for a very affordable price! The inside is super cozy, and very atmospheric! In the evening, sometimes somebody plays piano 🤩 As someone who visit often, I must say that the only con is the absence of new food variety!

What a refreshing vegetarian-mostly place for lunch! A good selection of cold and hot vegetable dishes, homemade nonalcoholic drinks, bear and wine. And deserts! Cool ambience. Highly recommend!

A gem hidden from the street, and only at a few minutes walk from the main square! It’s an inner patio with simple furniture. At lunchtime, the offer a salad bar with warm and cold options. The salads are super fresh. We choose for 6 different items, and it was a huge plate - and so delicious! And cheap: a plate plus a bottle of sparkling water for 8,5 euros. If I can make one suggestion, it would be to change the chairs for higher ones. The tables are at the right height for the benches, but for most people (except very lenghty ones) the chairs are too low.

3.5 stars It's a salad bar, it's a cafeteria, and it's popular with students! Chimera is located quite close to Krakow's central square in the old city and offers a variety of prepared foods from a buffet counter. It's a great deal--just 15 zloty gets you a selection of four items, and feeling very salady, I tried the beet salad (with lettuce); the broccoli with egg; the spinach salad with soy beans (which, uniquely, came with both cooked and raw spinach leaves); and my favorite, the herring salad with apple! I can't say that these were the freshest concoctions, as they had definitely been sitting around for a while and had started to wilt. But for the price, and for the really cool courtyard setting, this is a great casual place to check out in the center of Krakow that's actually popular with the locals!

Came here on a whim because we really needed to eat vegetables and everywhere was super busy. Loved this restaurant. The ambiance is amazing. There is live music - piano and vocals - tonight with candles lighting up the restaurant and the plants hanging overhead. So glad we found this gem.

BLOODY MARVELLOUS!! Our guide told us she has been coming here since she was a child and clearly it is a wonderfully consistent place to get a decent meal or tasty snack Our meals were delicious and the place is quaint and relaxing Highly recommended

Sorry to disappoint everyone! The place might be nice and the food might be tasty but we were shocked to see hair in the food!! So that put off my GF! And you all know how that affects the well being of the surroundings! Yes you guessed it right, we left there early :( Leaving behind the rest of the food which is like a never before event! You loose the trust and just want to get out of there!

I love it here. The staff is super nice and the food is great. We had breakfast here 2x in a row and we will come back! Would recommend the sweet rice for sweet teeth, it's really yummy and light. The prices are so low you feel as like you must be cheating someone... So we gave them a huge tip. The atmosphere is really cute and you feel as if you're in Italy. I cannot rave enough about this place. Coming from Germany, we get canteens with prices like this and the food there is nothing compared to chimera.

Amazing winter garden style restaurant/salad bar with fresh salads, hot meat & vegan options to mix & match. In general healthy food including desserts and gluten free options. Quite busy during weekday lunch. Really friendly and helpful staff. Good prices for the location close to main square. Free wifi. One of my fav places in Krakow :)

This is two restaurants in one. The one on street level is cafeteria style and then a normal restaurant down below. Food was good once you learn the system upstairs, which is not too user-friendly. My complaint is that they cram too much food on a very small plate, and you have to search for your utensils. Not to mention you have to make a separate trip to get and pay for any drinks you want to have before your meal starts. If you want a normal seated meal you go downstairs. Oh, and the paper napkins are the worst I've seen.

My all time favorite in Kraków! I've been coming here for years. I love everything about this place. It's run by students from the Jagiellonian University. Their outdoor, covered garden seating area has so much charm and character. The food is very good as well. Lots of options to choose from and you get to see the selections before you order them. Options include fresh salads, soups, various hot options, sweets, and fresh juices. This place never disappoints. Chimera is a true hidden gem, on a side street, right off of the Rynek. This is a must stop when in Kraków!

Truly delicious food and excellent in value! When I entered the restaurant, I strongly admired the decor. The food looked fresh, bright, and delicious. Although I eat meat, I decided to go for a vegetarian lunch. I loved it. The food was as good as it looked. It was a fantastic lunch. Healthy, clean, and fresh. I'd most definitely go there again.

Put simply Chimera is a great place in Kraków to stop for quick meals that are cheap and pretty tasty, or to just to stop and admire the atmosphere. We stopped at chimera for lunch and were not disappointed. They have a cafeteria style menu that seems to change by the hour (we saw different food on the menu when we left than was there when we arrived), and that is not only ridiculously cheap for Kraków but also really good. They mostly have veggie and fish based dishes, with many options for vegetarians & vegans. The atmosphere was also amazing as we ate in what could only be described as a botanical garden wonderland. Would highly recommend to anyone visiting Kraków looking for a cheap and amazing meal or a fun dining experience.

Good salad bar with different options of soups, salads and other vegetarians sides. Came here coz one of us is gluten free and they do have some options. So that was easy. Nice ambience too. They juices and French white wine were very delicious too.

Ofter reading review on yelp which I have been doing a lot as we travel we decided to try this one my husband is not into vegetable at all but it my favorite so in we went great prices food very tasty choices great even husband said he would return prices how can they make it for what they sell!! Would highly tell u to go for lunch or dinner

Polish food can be pretty heavy, so this salad bar/deli spot is a great healthy alternative. Basically you just get in line and order your food cafeteria style. They have different portion options (1, 4, and 6) and from what I remember the 4 portion meal was about 15 zl. My friends and I each ordered the 4 portion meals and it offered plenty of variety. The hot food options are first and then as you go down the line there's a wide assortment of salads - so before getting in line take a peek at the options (most of which were vegetarian). Each meal comes with salad dressing (given to you by the staff) and some bread (which you can find by the utensils, past the cashier). The best part about this place is that the interior resembles a greenhouse filled with random plants. Also, it's located just around the corner from the main square.

Chimera is my go to healthy-food place in the Rynek. They have a lot to choose from the salads and yummy desserts. The ambience is really nice and staff are friendly. The Big plat (for 17 zł) is totally worth it when you are hungry and want to eat healthy. You can pick 6 portions (mix of salads and other dishes, 100 grams each). Occasionally (during the weekends) they live bands performing there. P.S. - Recommended if you want go for a pocket friendly date.

An exceptional and unique cafeteria. Great atmosphere and tasty inexpensive food. They even have live music. Casual dining at its best.

Ate lunch in the salad bar/cafe part of Chimera in a group of 4. Being tourists, we weren't sure about how to ask for the salad plates, so we sat down and a kind young waiter offered to not only serve us at table, but spoke perfect English to us (he was probably glad to stop me from mangling his language any further!). Had the borscht to start with, served in a mug with some salad on the side, and then the meat pierogi. The food was tasty and served quickly and efficiently. Very good value for money, with a 2 course lunch for 4 plus drinks hitting around £20 GBP. Very easy to find, just off Rynek Glowny, and was bustling with locals, so a good find - recommended for a quick lunch during sightseeing.

The Salad bar Chimera in Kraków's old town has a huge selection of different salads, a lot of them are vegan, and very, very tasty! It is located between the main market (rynek glowny) and the planty-greenbealt, in a covered yard, with lots of plants and daylight - a great atmosphere. You can have just one serving (100 gr) for 5 zl, a small place (4 servings, each 100g) for 13 zl or a big plate (6 servings) for 17 zl. You can choose from the wide range of salads, but you can also choose from warm (not too hot ;) vegetarian dishes, or meat. Besides there are available soups and other dishes, like pierogi. Even though I would like the place better if they didn't serve meat (therefore I am a rare guest), I have to point out that the salads are amazing and offering a wide, vegan offer - my favorites are those with chickpeas (ciciorka) or soy beans with lentils (soja z soczewica) and beetroot with oranges (buraki).

Instead of the salad bar upstairs, I have chosen to go downstairs to have a meal at the restaurant. The menu is typical polish dishes. I have ordered the white borsch. It is very nice, totally increase my appetite and prepare me for the goose beasts main course. It is served with cabbage & raisins. It is a very interesting combination of flavor. Decoration is a farm house look and service is very good for polish standard. Overall, I think it is a good traditional polish restaurant just off the main square.

Beautiful restaurant with nice food and pleasant staff. Recommend to finish the meal with a piołunówka!

This was our first visit to Kraków and we stopped at Chimera for our first meal, my wife wanted some healthy vegetarian food so after searching yelp we choose to eat here. There are to areas of the place and we choose to eat in the downstairs restaurant, it's not vegetarian. The basement area that the restaurant is in is beautiful, it is 500 years old and nicely decorated with various pieces of art, as far as the ambiance is concerned it is a 5 star place but unfortunately that doesn't follow through in the food. I had the trout with cheese, the trout was cooked nicely but it had a lot of bones, the cheese on the trout overpowered the flavor of the fish, it was nice Smokey cheese but for my taste it should have been a bit more delicate so as not to overpower the fish. My wife ordered the vegetarian plate, it was served on to plates the first had 3 types of salad and wasn't very tasty, the second plate had more choices but it was very underwhelming, boring flavors and bland. The server was very nice and did a good job but the food was not great. I would choose to try another restaurant before visiting Chemera again. Having said that, the ambiance was so nice here that perhaps we just ordered the wrong food, it might be a nice romantic place to enjoy a meal if you choose your food perfectly.

You have to be there between 1:30-2:30 or between 4:30-5;30 to get the best dishes. Before and after those times they produce little food. Great location, great outdoor atmosphere. Nice staff but it is obvious when the owner is there because the whole staff gets extremely stressed out and you can see it on their faces.

Interior with paintings, antique furniture and beautiful fabrics in a kind of "old Krakow" style, but very appealing and cosy. Perfect for candlelight dinner. And also the quality of the food and the service convinces. We realliy enjoyed our dinner there. Please be aware: In the cellar used to be a salad bar, which is now on the ground floor.