Forum Fun & Food

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Forum Fun & Food, 2025

On the ground floor of the crumbling Forum Hotel, find an indoor food hall, multi-tap bar, arcade, billiards, bowling, shuffleboard and a sea of lawn chairs overlooking the river.

Forum Fun & Food - the perfect place for a sundowner...

Once a four-star hotel representing the pinnacle of Soviet-era design, today Kraków’s infamous Hotel Forum - whose brutalist design was controversially added to the registry of historic buildings earlier this year - has taken on a second life as a vast riverside beer garden, food hall and entertainment centre. Although the upstairs guestrooms are gradually going back to nature, the ground floor features a cafe, a huge bar serving craft beer and cocktails, and an upscale food hall with 5 unique food concepts, serving pizza, burgers, sushi, Mexican and Asian eats. There is absolutely tonnes of seating inside, as well as on the terraces (covered and heated in winter) and all along the riverside, which is covered in deck chairs during warm weather. As such, this is Kraków’s biggest riverside hangout, able to accommodate throngs of weekenders, tourists and large groups.

What makes Forum’s latest incarnation unique from its previous attempts is the more family-friendly atmosphere, and effort to make it a year-round attraction with an impressive array of bar games and amusements. There’s now an iridescent game room with over 60 retro-style games, plus 10 brand-new billiard tables, three beautiful shuffleboard tables (something we’ve never seen in PL before), darts, and even 14 shiny bowling lanes in the basement. The prices aren’t cheap, so check out their weekly promotions to score a discount. Occasional live music adds to the atmosphere, which has generally shifted the crowd away from biceps and botox towards families, students and date nights, while doing nothing to dent its popularity. For tourists it’s almost obligatory, and the quality of the food, plus plenty of entertainment, makes it worth the trip over the river.