About Europejski Grill
When Raffles Hotels restored the Europejski — Warsaw's most storied grand hotel, a building that has witnessed a century of the city's most consequential moments — the dining concept they installed was the right one. Europejski Grill is a charcoal kitchen with serious architectural ambitions: a Michelin-listed restaurant inside a palatial room overlooking Krakowskie Przedmieście, the royal avenue that runs from the Old Town to Wilanow Palace, with a terrace that positions diners directly above one of Warsaw's great urban squares.
Chef Beñat Alonso trained under Martin Bersategui and Juan Mari Arzak before arriving in Warsaw, and the influence of the Basque avant-garde is legible in his approach to Polish seasonal produce. The charcoal grill is the structural principle: fish and meat cooked over live fire, then finished and seasoned with the precision of a kitchen that understands both the power of the technique and its limits. But the menu extends well beyond the grill — vegetable preparations that demonstrate the quality of Polish agriculture, fermented and preserved components that link the cooking to local tradition without being archaeological about it, and desserts that treat Polish fruit with the seriousness usually reserved for imported luxury ingredients.
The room is the kind of restored grandeur that only works when the quality of the operation matches the ambition of the setting. Here it does. The service is international in its training but specific in its warmth — a team that understands the hotel's audience includes Warsaw's diplomatic and business elite as well as international travellers arriving with expectations calibrated by Raffles properties in Singapore and Paris. The breakfast alone, which the hotel extends to outside guests, has developed a reputation as the city's best, which is a useful indicator of kitchen standards.
The terrace, when the Warsaw summer allows, is the finest outdoor dining perch in the city centre: looking north across Piłsudski Square, past the Saxon Garden, toward a skyline that tells the story of Warsaw's destruction and reconstruction in compressed architectural form. The best table in Warsaw for the kind of conversation that needs both privacy and perspective.
Best Occasion Fit
For Close a Deal, Europejski Grill is Warsaw's most credible power dining address. The Raffles context provides neutral luxury ground — neither too local nor too generic — and a terrace table on Piłsudski Square has the spatial authority that the best deal-closing conversations require. The Michelin listing and the chef's Basque pedigree ensure the food meets the room's promise.
For Impress Clients, this is where you bring the international delegation. The hotel's pedigree is globally legible — Raffles Warsaw is already on the radar of sophisticated travellers — and Beñat Alonso's cooking demonstrates that Warsaw's fine dining scene is not merely aspiring to world standards but has already met them. A booking here signals that you know exactly where to go.
For a Birthday, the grand setting, attentive service, and genuinely excellent cooking combine to produce an evening with the weight a major occasion demands. Private dining arrangements can be made for groups within the hotel; the main dining room handles individual celebrations with discretion and warmth.
The Experience
Reserve via the Raffles website or concierge. The terrace operates seasonally — April through October in good weather — and terrace tables should be specifically requested at booking. The seasonal tasting menu, when offered, is the kitchen at its most focused. Also excellent in Warsaw for deal-closing power dining: Nuta and Concept 13. Explore all Close a Deal restaurants and Impress Clients restaurants worldwide.