School meals
From September 2026 the meals at IAS are cooked by Kuchnia z Klasą, whose kitchens work only with schools and kindergartens in Warsaw. Everything is made from scratch on the day, and ordering is done by families through their own account.
Tasting day
The children taste the food before anyone orders it.
At the start of every school year the kitchen brings the menu into school and the children try it. Not a photograph of a dish on a website, the dish itself, on a plate, at lunchtime.
This year the tasting days ran on 7 and 8 September, in both buildings, Dembego 12 and Dembego 18. Quesadillas, Greek salad, breaded chicken, rice, cucumber salad, fresh bread, sushi and cold pressed juices went out on the tables, and the response from the children was about as clear as a response gets. They liked it.
If your child came home talking about something they tried, it is on the menu in the ordering panel below.
Before you start
Wait for the email.
You do not need to register anywhere yet. A few days before school begins in September, every family receives a separate email with a login for the ordering system and step by step instructions. Please wait for that email before setting anything up.
The kitchen
How the food is made.
Kuchnia z Klasą has been cooking for Warsaw pupils for more than twelve years, in preschools, primary schools and high schools.
Cooked from scratch
No ready made components. Soups and stocks are made on fresh vegetables with no meat added, and the chefs mince their own meat instead of buying it ready ground. Pierogi, naleśniki and kopytka are made by hand in the kitchen.
Seasonal ingredients
Menus follow the season. Suppliers are checked and certified, and the kitchen works to HACCP standards.
No pork
Pork is not used at all. Veal and turkey are served in its place. The only stock made on meat is rosół, which uses turkey.
Food safety
A sample of each day’s food is kept refrigerated for 72 hours for the sanitary inspectorate, and certificates are held for every supplier the kitchen buys from.
The menu
Something for every child, every day.
- Main courses
- Meat and vegetarian options daily. Meat dishes twice a week.
- Special diets
- Dairy free, gluten free and egg free options, with individual diets arranged directly with the kitchen.
- Halal
- Halal meals are available on request, arranged directly with the kitchen.
- The favourite dish
- A familiar dish kept on the menu for children who eat selectively, introduced last year at parents’ request.
- Also on offer
- Salads, hot sandwiches, premium dishes, sushi and onigiri for older children, soups in meat and vegetarian versions, and extra side dishes.
- Breakfast and snack
- Breakfast and an afternoon snack are available alongside lunch.
- Drinks
- Cold pressed juices and lemonades made in house, with no added sugar.
2026/2027
The new dietary standards.
The September menu, and every menu after it, follows the new Ministry of Health guidelines. In practice that means:
- A vegan meal
- At least once a week.
- Soups
- Cooked on vegetable stock only, with no meat. Rosół is available in both a traditional and a vegetarian version.
- Nothing artificial
- No artificial colours and no concentrates.
- Vegetables
- A vegetable side with every main dish.
- Sweet things
- Served as fruit, fruit salad or vegetables to crunch on, sweetened only with agave or date syrup.
- Fried food
- No more than once a week, and only in rapeseed oil.
By age
What each group eats.
Kindergarten and lower elementary, Dembego 12
The youngest children receive breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack as one daily set.
Upper elementary, middle and high school, Dembego 18
Older students choose from the full lunch menu. High school students may also eat at local restaurants, and middle school students may do so with permission from a parent or guardian.
Prices
Roughly what a meal costs.
These prices are approximate and are a guide for planning. The catering company confirms current prices inside the ordering system, and they may change during the school year.
| Meal | Approximate price |
|---|---|
| Soup and main course | 22 zł |
| Main course, meat or vegetarian | 18 zł |
| Favourite dish, for fussier eaters | 19 zł |
| Soup on its own | 5 zł |
| Lunch salad | 22 zł |
| Hot sandwiches | 22 zł |
| Premium dish | 22 zł |
| Breakfast | 10 zł |
| Afternoon snack | 10 zł |
| Sushi | 34 zł |
| Onigiri | 25 zł |
| Cold pressed juice | 7 zł |
| Full day set for the youngest children: breakfast, soup, main course and afternoon snack | 30 zł |
Ordering
Five steps in iKuchnia.
You order, change and cancel meals yourself, day by day. Payment is by ordinary bank transfer or Przelew24, and the system is available in English as well as Polish.
Register
Registration is needed before you can place an order or make a payment. The form is at ikuchnia.com.pl.
Log in
Log in to iKuchnia using the same link.
Open the order tab
Open the “Order/cancel meal” tab. The current price list appears here once you are logged in.
Choose the meals
Select what you want, then confirm with the “Order” button.
Pay
Go to the “Balance” tab and click “Pay”. Choose Autopay or bank transfer. If you pay by transfer, put the ID number shown in the system in the payment title, otherwise it cannot be matched to your child.
More than one child? Register only once, then add each further child after logging in with the “Add child” button. Please use the IAS panel linked on this page: Kuchnia z Klasą cook for several Warsaw schools and each one has its own ordering page.
Questions
Menus, allergies and individual diets.
Those go to the catering company through the ordering system, because the kitchen answers them directly. For anything else, the school office is happy to help.
