Piekarnia Kuźmiuk

Piekarnia Kuźmiuk has baked at 4 Furmańska Street in Lublin's Old Town, 150 metres from Castle Square, since 1944. The business describes itself as the oldest artisan bakery in Lublin and one of the oldest in Poland still run continuously by a single family, a claim tied to nearly 80 unbroken years at the same address.

The bakery keeps its own rye sourdough starter and states it uses no baking additives, bread improvers, preservatives or ready-made mixes, sourcing ingredients instead from a local, family-run mill. Recipes are described as unchanged for years, covering a range of rye flours from light through wholemeal alongside wheat and spelt breads.

Beyond bread, the shop makes cebularz — Lublin's onion-topped flatbread — along with challah, rolls, pastries, cakes, croissants and bagels. Operating through Poland's postwar decades and the transition out of communism without a change of family ownership is, on its own, most of what the bakery leans on: continuity, not reinvention, as the selling point.