Eating Time in Poland

In the cities the average working hours are from seven in the morning to three-thirty o'clock in the afternoon. Breakfast is served at six-thirty, lunch, drugie śniadanie, at eleven o'clock, dinner at three-thirty or four o'clock in the afternoon and supper at seven-thirty o'clock in the evening. On the farms, the tillers of the soil eat their breakfast at sunrise, pack a lunch and eat in the field when they get hungry and return to their homes at sunset for supper.

A delightful Polish custom is the break in the afternoon routine for a visit to the many tea shops, cukiernie. This is done between the hours of three and six o'clock in the afternoon. If you order tea, it is brought to you in tall thin glasses. Sliced lemon with the tea is more popular than cream. Coffee is served in cups, topped with whipped cream.