Robert Makłowicz

Robert Makłowicz born 12 August 1963 in Kraków Poland is a Polish journalist food critic writer publicist traveler and entrepreneur He is best known as the creator and host of the culinary travel program Makłowicz w podróży He was born to Włodzimierz Makłowicz a sailor and Beata née Preiss His family background includes Polish Ukrainian Armenian Hungarian and Austrian roots He attended the V Liceum Ogólnokształcące im Augusta Witkowskiego w Krakowie and later studied law and then history at the Jagiellonian University though he did not complete either degree Around 19891990 he lived in the United Kingdom working for several months as a laborer in Kingston upon Thames During this time he explored different world cuisines which motivated him to become a food critic after returning to Poland in 1990 In 1993 he became a columnist for Gazeta Wyborcza In 1998 he began hosting the television culinary travel series Podróże kulinarne Roberta Makłowicza on Telewizja Polska After that program ended in 2008 he started a new series Makłowicz w podróży on TVP2 He also appeared as a culinary guide in the first two seasons of Bake Off Ale ciacho After TVP ended cooperation with him in 2017 he briefly worked with Food Network on the program Makłowicz w drodze In March 2020 he launched his own YouTube channel where he publishes culinary and historical videos From 2020 to 2021 he hosted a music program Od Punk Rocka do Bartóka on newonceradio He has also written books including Cafe Museum 2010 which received the Srebrny Kałamarz literary award In 2022 he became an ambassador for the Wrocław Year of Good Relations initiative addressing social isolation In 2024 he joined the council of the Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Krakowa and recorded route announcements used in public transport vehicles in Kraków Makłowicz has also been involved in business He cofounded the company Propinquus which together with Pamapol created the food company Makłowicz i Synowie producing and distributing food products sold in major Polish retail chains such as Lidl and Biedronka