Restaurant in Gdańsk, Poland
Book the plant menu. Skip the guesswork.
Fino holds a Michelin Plate for 2024 and 2025 and a Star Wine List White Star, making it one of the most credentialled restaurants in Gdańsk at the €€€ price point. The kitchen's plant-forward identity, led by chef Jacek Koprowski, is the primary draw — book the Plant tasting menu on your first visit. Booking is easy relative to the restaurant's recognition, so there is no need to plan far ahead.
If you are choosing between Fino and the Spanish-inflected splurge of Arco by Paco Pérez for a serious dinner in Gdańsk, Fino is the more practical choice for plant-forward modern cooking at the €€€ price point. It holds a Michelin Plate for both 2024 and 2025, carries a 4.8 on Google across more than 1,200 reviews, and has been recognised by Star Wine List (White Star, published August 2024) for its wine programme. Book it on a first visit for the Plant tasting menu; return a second time to work through the à la carte and the wine list properly.
Fino sits on Grząska 1 in the lower town area of Gdańsk, and the atmosphere is calm without being stiff. The room reads as a considered space rather than a loud one: this is not the kind of place where you raise your voice over a sound system. For a city where late-night energy can dominate the dining offer, that quieter register is deliberate and, for the right diner, a genuine reason to choose it over more informal alternatives. If you want energy and noise with your food, go to Mercato. If you want to hear the person across the table, Fino is the right call.
The kitchen's identity is built around vegetables. Chef Jacek Koprowski's Plant tasting menu is the centrepiece of the offer, and the fennel logo is not incidental: it signals where the kitchen's genuine interest lies. We're Smart, the global network that recognises vegetable-forward restaurants, has publicly flagged Fino as a candidate to become its Polish ambassador — a specific and verifiable credential that places the restaurant in a meaningful international conversation about plant-based fine dining, not just local Polish cooking. That context matters when you are deciding whether the tasting menu price is justified: you are not paying for a trend, you are paying for a kitchen that has built a coherent philosophy and executed it with enough consistency to earn repeated external recognition.
The wine programme adds weight to the case for multiple visits. The Star Wine List White Star recognition in August 2024 points to a list that has been curated with enough depth to warrant specialist attention. For a wine-focused traveller, this changes the calculus: a single visit may not be enough to explore both the tasting menu and the wine list at the pace they deserve. If you are coming to Gdańsk for food and wine rather than just a meal, Fino is one of the few venues in the city where the wine offer is genuinely part of the experience rather than a supporting act. For broader context on where Fino sits in the Polish fine dining picture, it is worth comparing it against Bottiglieria 1881 Restaurant in Kraków or Muga in Poznań when planning a multi-city itinerary.
Michelin Plate in consecutive years (2024 and 2025) is not a star, but it is not nothing either. It tells you the Guide's inspectors found the food worth noting and have returned. In Gdańsk's dining scene, that is a meaningful signal: the city does not have the concentration of recognised restaurants that Warsaw or Kraków do, so a consecutive Plate puts Fino in a short list. For comparison on what the Polish fine dining conversation looks like elsewhere, hub.praga in Warsaw and Acquario in Wrocław operate in a similar register of ambitious modern European cooking, though with different culinary identities.
A three-visit strategy makes sense here if you are based in or regularly passing through northern Poland. First visit: commit to the Plant tasting menu and let the kitchen set the agenda. Second visit: use the à la carte to find the dishes that interest you most and pair more deliberately with the wine list. Third visit: use the wine bar dimension , Fino operates as both restaurant and wine bar , to approach the space more loosely, eating less formally and drinking more exploratively. That third mode is where venues like this often reveal the most about themselves. Travellers coming through the Tri-City area who have already eaten at 1911 Restaurant in Sopot will find Fino a usefully different register: more vegetable-focused, more wine-bar inflected, and operating at a slightly lower price ceiling than the Sopot fine dining tier.
For the Gdańsk explorer who wants to build a proper picture of what the city's food scene can do, Fino is a non-negotiable inclusion. Start here, then use our full Gdańsk restaurants guide to map out the rest of your visits. If you are also planning accommodation and evening drinks, our Gdańsk hotels guide and Gdańsk bars guide cover the surrounding picture. Fino's neighbours in the Gdańsk restaurant scene worth knowing include Eliksir, Niesztuka, and Ritz for different moods and price points. For those interested in the broader Polish wine and produce scene, our Gdańsk wineries guide and Gdańsk experiences guide are worth consulting alongside your restaurant planning.
Booking difficulty is rated Easy. You do not need to plan weeks ahead as you would for a starred restaurant in Warsaw. That accessibility is part of why Fino fits a multi-visit approach: you can return without the logistical overhead of chasing a reservation window. For a venue with this level of external recognition, that ease of access is genuinely useful information.
Quick reference: Fino, Grząska 1, Gdańsk | €€€ | Modern Cuisine, plant-forward | Michelin Plate 2024 & 2025 | Star Wine List White Star | 4.8 / 5 (1,265 Google reviews) | Booking: Easy.
Book the Plant tasting menu on your first visit. If you are returning, use the à la carte and treat the wine list as a destination in itself , the White Star recognition suggests there is enough depth to reward attention. The wine bar format means you can also visit more loosely, without committing to a full tasting menu, which makes repeat visits lower-effort to justify. Fino is easy to book relative to its credentials, so there is no need to plan far in advance, but an evening reservation is still sensible for a full dinner.
| Venue | Awards | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fino | Restaurant Fino is a restaurant venue.without_translation_and wine bar in Gdańsk, Poland. It was published on Star Wine List on August 1, 2024 and is a White Star.; It is clear that chef Jacek Koprowski loves vegetables. The menu " Plant tasting " is therefore a hit. The logo is a fennel which only reinforces this. We are also happy to see the interest in Pure Plant cuisine in Poland. We advise Fino to take the lead and become the We're Smart Ambassador for Poland. Keep up the good work, chef!; Michelin Plate (2025); Michelin Plate (2024) | €€€ | — |
| Arco by Paco Pérez | Michelin 1 Star | €€€€ | — |
| Hewelke | € | — | |
| Mercato | €€€ | — | |
| Tygle | €€ | — | |
| Villa | €€€ | — |
Side-by-side comparison to help you decide where to book.
Start with the Plant tasting menu — it is the clearest expression of what chef Jacek Koprowski is doing here, and the vegetable-forward focus is specific enough to be a genuine point of difference in Gdańsk. The wine list has earned a White Star from Star Wine List, so treat it as part of the meal rather than an afterthought. On a return visit, the à la carte gives you more flexibility to explore individual dishes.
At €€€ pricing, the Plant tasting menu is competitive for a Michelin Plate restaurant with a credentialed wine programme. If you want a serious vegetable-forward tasting format in Poland, Fino is among the very few venues running one at this level. If meat-driven tasting menus are your preference, the format here is not designed around that, so adjust expectations accordingly.
Nothing in the available venue data specifies private dining or group capacity, so check the venue's official channels before assuming larger parties can be seated without prior arrangement. At a €€€ price point with a focused tasting menu format, this is not typically a walk-in-with-eight-people kind of venue — plan ahead.
Fino holds a Michelin Plate for both 2024 and 2025, and its wine list carries a White Star from Star Wine List — two credible signals that this is a serious, considered operation. The kitchen's identity is built around vegetables, with the Plant tasting menu as the centrepiece, so arrive expecting that commitment rather than a conventional multi-protein progression. It is located at Grząska 1 in Gdańsk's lower town area.
Yes, with the right expectations. Two consecutive Michelin Plates and a Star Wine List White Star give Fino enough credibility for a meaningful dinner — anniversary, birthday, or a serious food-focused evening. It works better for couples or small groups who are genuinely interested in vegetable-forward cooking than for guests who expect a traditional celebratory meat-and-fish format. For a more Spanish-inflected special occasion splurge in Gdańsk, Arco by Paco Pérez is the alternative worth weighing.
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