Autumn is a good excuse to put a few restaurant visits in the diary. RestaurantWeek® is returning to Poznań from 7 October to 25 November 2026, bringing a selection of local restaurants into the nationwide dining festival.
The autumn edition will feature more than 420 restaurants across 13 major Polish metropolitan areas. In Poznań, diners can choose from participating venues offering specially prepared three-course menus created for the festival.
Reservations are already open through the RestaurantWeek official website.
A taste of autumn in Poznań
The festival menu is built around the sort of ingredients that naturally appear as the seasons change, including mushrooms, pumpkin, root vegetables, plums and apples, alongside dishes featuring game and goose.
For Poznań diners, the participating restaurants offer quite a broad mix of styles.
At Projekt Alfa, the festival selection includes beef sirloin tartare, seasonal pumpkin, duck pierogi and kartacze served with regional smoked twaróg.
Gusto di Napoli is taking a distinctly Italian approach, with goose, pizza and Baba al Rum among its festival dishes, while American Dream Club is featuring ingredients including chanterelle mushrooms, beef cheek and cod.
There are Italian-inspired choices at Insieme, including arancini and calzone followed by Italian desserts. At Lavenda Cafe&Lunch, the menu includes Silesian dumplings (kluski śląskie) and a plum cheesecake.
The appeal of the festival format is that these dishes are prepared specifically for RestaurantWeek®, giving diners a chance to try combinations that may not normally appear on a restaurant's everyday menu.
An easy excuse for a meal out
RestaurantWeek® Country Manager Bartosz Kwiatek says the autumn edition is intended to make dining out feel accessible rather than something reserved for a special occasion.
RestaurantWeek® has for years been a simple way to discover restaurants and spend time together around the table. This autumn, we want to remind people that you don't need a big occasion to plan a good meal out. All it takes is choosing a place you'd like to visit, inviting your loved ones and letting yourself be delighted by the festival menu. It is this combination of good food, new places and time spent together that makes the Festival such a good fit for the rhythm of autumn,
- Bartosz Kwiatek, Country Manager of RestaurantWeek®.
For Poznań, that means the festival can work equally well for discovering a new restaurant, revisiting a favourite, or simply planning an evening out as the days become shorter.
Lunch or evening booking
This year's edition introduces two price points depending on the time of the reservation.
RestaurantWeek® by day: PLN 69.99 per person for reservations beginning before 17:00
RestaurantWeek® in the evening: PLN 79.99 per person for reservations from 17:00
Both options include a three-course menu and a festival gift
Guests can also add a bottle of Coca-Cola Zero Sugar to their reservation
According to the organisers, the festival menu can represent a saving of up to 50% compared with the regular prices of the dishes.
The different booking times also make the format fairly flexible. A daytime reservation can work for lunch or an early meal, while the evening option suits a dinner with friends, a date or a longer catch-up after work.
RestaurantWeek® across Poland
Poznań is one of 13 metropolitan areas taking part in the autumn festival. The full list also includes Warsaw, Łódź, Lublin, Rzeszów, Kraków, the Tricity, Szczecin, Białystok, Bydgoszcz, Silesia, Warmia and Masuria, and Wrocław.
For people who regularly eat out in Poznań, it is an opportunity to revisit a familiar address with a different menu. For newcomers to the city's restaurant scene, it can also provide an easy way to try somewhere that has been sitting on the list for a while.
The festival is organised around the simple idea of booking a restaurant, choosing a menu and turning up at a set time. That makes it particularly suited to autumn's longer evenings, when a meal out can become the main event rather than something squeezed in around other plans.
Poznań Magazine contest coming soon
As Poznań Magazine Editorial Team, we will also be announcing a new competition soon, with a RestaurantWeek® voucher among the prizes.
Keep an eye on Poznań Magazine for the full competition details, including how to enter and when entries will open. We will publish the information as soon as everything is confirmed.
Hint: We want to hear your story
Booking information
RestaurantWeek® runs from 7 October to 25 November 2026.
Reservations are currently available via the RestaurantWeek website.
For the most up-to-date list of participating Poznań restaurants and their individual festival menus, check the RestaurantWeek® booking platform before making your choice.
See more: Read our previous coverage of FineDiningWeek
Source and image credit: RestaurantWeek press materials
