Tartines

Tartines

Welcome to our Tartines category – a tour through the delicious world of these open-faced delights! Though not a sandwich in the traditional sense, tartines are closely sandwich-adjacent, balancing delicate flavors on a single slice of bread. From the classic French breakfast tartine with butter and jam, to the sophisticated combinations of gourmet ingredients, we're serving up a feast for the eyes and palate.

Zapiekanka Grecka: an illustration of feta, olives, tomato, mushroom and more.

Zapiekanka Grecka

Zapiekanka grecka piles cold feta, olives and tzatziki onto a hot toasted baguette, a Polish idea of Greek flavor built from two dishes no Greek table serves together.

Zapiekanka Gourmet: an illustration of pork, mushroom, cheese, onion and more.

Zapiekanka Gourmet

At the Plac Nowy rotunda in Kraków, a mushroom-and-cheese zapiekanka still runs about seven złoty; a build with three cheeses, cured ham and a worked sauce can run past thirty.

Zapiekanka Fit: an illustration of chicken, mushroom, cheese, tomato and more.

Zapiekanka Fit

Zapiekanka fit is a Polish diet-blog label, not its own recipe. Whole-grain bread browns unevenly under the grill and lean toppings render no fat, the two things that fused the original together.

Kanapka: an illustration of butter on bread.

Kanapka

Polish open-faced sandwich; single slice of bread with various toppings. Staple of Polish breakfast (śniadanie) and supper (kolacja). Eat...

Kanapka ze Smalcem i Cebulką: an illustration of onion on bread.

Kanapka ze Smalcem i Cebulką

Kanapka ze smalcem i cebulką puts raw onion on cold lard bread -- not as garnish but as the second named ingredient, the sharp note that earns its place in the title and clears each bite for the next.

Kanapka ze Śledziem: an illustration of herring, onion and butter on bread.

Kanapka ze Śledziem

Kanapka ze śledziem is the open herring sandwich: cured śledź soaked back from brine, laid cold on buttered dark rye with raw onion. The weekday face of the fish at the heart of Poland's Wigilia.