Poznań · Since 2019

Cooked over fire and herbs

A nine-metre open hearth, oak and beech embers, and produce that travels no further than Wielkopolska. Modern Polish cooking, served in the low amber light of ul. Woźna.

17:00 Doors open, Tue–Sat

28 Seats at the pass

9 m Of live fire

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The hearth, 06:40 — first embers of the day

Our story

A restaurant built around one fire

We took a tenement cellar two streets from the Old Market Square, knocked through the back wall and put a hearth where the kitchen used to be. Everything we serve passes over it — vegetables buried in embers, fish grilled on birch, bread baked in the falling heat at the end of service.

The cooking is Polish, but not nostalgic. We use the pantry our grandmothers used — buckwheat, sour cream, plums, horseradish, fermented cabbage — and let the fire do the rest.

01

Grown within 90 kilometres

Eleven farms across Wielkopolska supply us directly. Vegetables are ordered the evening before, harvested at dawn and on the pass by six.

02

Herbs we pick ourselves

Wild garlic, sorrel, meadowsweet and young spruce come from the woods around Puszczykowo. What we can't forage, we grow in the courtyard beds behind the dining room.

03

Nothing wasted, nothing hurried

Trim becomes stock, stock becomes sauce, ash becomes the salt we finish with. Ferments start months before they reach a plate.

Marta Zielińska · Head Chef

The chef

Marta Zielińska

“Fire is not a technique here. It is the first ingredient, and everything else has to earn its place beside it.”

Marta grew up in a house outside Śrem where the stove was lit before anyone spoke. She cooked for six years in Copenhagen and two in the Basque Country, then came home in 2019 with one condition for her partners: the kitchen would have no gas.

Born
Śrem, Wielkopolska, 1988
Trained
Copenhagen · Getaria · Poznań
Cooks with
Oak, beech, birch and alder — never charcoal briquettes
Day off
Monday, spent foraging near Puszczykowo

Reservations

Take a seat at the fire

We hold tables for two hours. For six guests or more, or to book the chef's counter, write to us directly and we'll arrange the evening around you.

Your confirmation and a reminder the day before arrive here.

Prefer to speak to someone? Call +48 61 222 41 80 or email stol@ogien-ziola.pl.

Visit us

ul. Woźna 12,
61-777 Poznań

Four minutes on foot from the Old Market Square, through the archway and down the stairs. Look for the copper door and the smell of woodsmoke.

Opening hours

Monday
Closed
Tuesday
17:00 – 23:00
Wednesday
17:00 – 23:00
Thursday
17:00 – 23:00
Friday
16:00 – 00:00
Saturday
16:00 – 00:00
Sunday
13:00 – 21:00

+48 61 222 41 80

stol@ogien-ziola.pl

Tram 5 or 13 to Plac Wielkopolski · paid parking on ul. Garbary

The fire letter

One letter a month, written the morning after service

What's arriving from the farms, which dishes are leaving the menu, and the two evenings a month we open the chef's counter to eight guests.

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