Willa Orla

Traditional home-made cuisine of Villa Orla. Continuing the Polish heritage and the traditions of the mountain pension house from before the war. In the traditional, and ambient decor of our dinning room, decorated with mountain artifacts and heritage family collections dating centuries back, we serve not only typical mountain dishes but also traditional Polish food. All meals are based on family recipes, and the jams, cakes and fruit preserves are made based on the recipes of Mania Samek dating over 100 years back.

Mania Samek and her sisters

Our collection of traditional Shvarcvald
clocks presented to us by professor Jan Samek.

Our cooks, Bronia and Halinka, prepare delicious treats, which are not only tasty but also large. The menu changes with seasons. All meals are carefully selected as far as their vitamin and mineral content is concerned. In the morning, we serve traditional Polish breakfasts available in the form of a buffet with scents of freshly baked buns, country bread and regional cheeses and hams, completed with our famous lard "smaczek": and home-made fruit preserves and jams.

Our lady cooks specialties are: mountain pie with garlic butter, Oscypek baked with mountain cranberries, Pork loin stuffed with sweet plums, Mushroom soup on bread, Old Polish style soup made from rye flour, Crunchy chicken wings in honey, Pierogi Bowl, Maryna's plait with roasted potatoes. Remarkable desserts inculde: "Orla" apple pie with whipped cream, cream cake "Vistula Waves" and superb Jancia's blueberry muffins, followed by country style Tea, country style mulled wine and those are just a few suggestions from our wide list of dishes and desserts made by our excellent cooks.

Our team has vast experience in the preparation of functions and fancy dinner parties. Most popular among our guests are Country Feasts of various subjects : Highlander Feasts, Polish Evenings, Experience the music of the mountain Gypsies, Hunters' Feasts and Country Style Highlander Evenings.
All organized in the traditional interior or by the fire outside on one of the Tatry glades, or sometimes in the highlander's hut. Encounters with the highlander's tradition, folklore and speech are accompanied by roasting of a pig and tasting of the local delicacies.

Polish Evenings - remembering national traditions, we organize chamber evenings accompanied by Polish tradition and culture with tasting of the original "Polish cuisine" and singing the well-known and liked songs from the country on the Vistula river.

Exotic Gypsy evenings - nowhere else but here, can you listen to the singing of the highlander gypsies accompanied by guitars and taste the delicious meals based on the gypsy's recipes.

Hunter's Evenings, traditional hunter's evenings by a table packed with game dishes accompanied by the sounds of the hunting horn and night discussions on the highlander's adventures.

With Sienkiewicz at the table... - Country Feast - Let's grasp a jug in one hand, and the second let's put firmly on our sword, as we will fight on both fronts", the feast is prepared in the atmosphere of the 17th century, and all dishes served are examples of traditional country Poland.

Our chefs celebrate the tradition of Christmas and Easter Feasts. As tradition tells us to, our guests can enjoy their Christmas Eve dinner with a table packed with delicacies, with Christmas Tree in the background and candle light. The dishes include...beetroot soup with pierogi, traditional poppy dish (kutia), pierogi with cabbage and meat... and according to tradition we serve 12 dishes. And on Easter, guests can enjoy the family atmosphere with the traditional egg sharing at the table filled with excellent meals.

Easter Eve in Willa Orla

Traditional Christmas Eve supper with Christmas carol in Willa Orla

We also invite you the annual, two-day feast "Koscieliska Street Feast". It takes place in September, and Villa Orla offers presentation and tasting of home-made cakes for the competition "Cakes and pies of this year's flour". And the home-made liqueurs are excellent every year! Each is prepared according to exceptional recipes which are kept secret, e.g. "Frog's Legs", or "Frog's Croak" or "Refresh yourself, brother".