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{{data|3 April 2019}}
[[File:Restauracja Wierzynek.jpg|thumb|The sign at the entrance to the [http://wierzynek.pl/nasza-legenda/ Wierzynek restaurant] at Rynek Główny 16 (no. 16, Grand Square) in Cracow]]
Among many tourist attractions in my beautiful hometown of Cracow (or Kraków, if you will), the former seat of the kings of Poland, there are two venerable establishments which pride themselves on dating back to the reign of King Casimir the Great – specifically, to the year 1364. One of them is Poland's oldest institution of higher learning, the one where Copernicus went to college. King Casimir obtained papal consent to open a university in Cracow in 1364 indeed. But it took him three more years to actually open the Academy of Cracow, and three years after that King Casimir died and the Academy closed for business. It was only in 1400 that King Vladislav Vladislaus Jagailo and Queen Hedwig founded a new university in Cracow, which is known to this day as Jagiellonian University (and not Casimirian University). "Founded in 1364" turns out to be somewhat of a stretch.
Okay, but what does it have to do with culinary history? Nothing. That's why we're now going to focus on the other establishment, one which even has the year 1364 written into its logo. Here's what you can read about it in ''1,000 Places to See Before You Die'', a snobbish guidebook to the world's most overpriced hotels, restaurants and other tourist traps:
[[Category: Otto III]]
[[Category: Pierre de Lusignan]]
[[Category: Vladislav Vladislaus Jagailo]]
[[Category: Hedwig Angevin]]
[[Category: Urban V]]
