Even better, there is a Pizza Hut in the old city.
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 13:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 13:50 (twenty years ago) link
In Krakow I went to this excellent Polish restaurant; in English its called "under the rams head" but I forget the Polish name. Also in Krakow is a good French restaurant call "Cyrano de [you know the one, I can't spell French]" if you are sick of Polish. And go to a deli and try some of the sausages and cheeses.
― fletrejet, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 14:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 14:17 (twenty years ago) link
meat, potatos and lard - who couldn't love Polish food?
― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 14:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Mark C (Mark C), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 14:25 (twenty years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 14:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 14:49 (twenty years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 14:58 (twenty years ago) link
now I may be biased due to polish blood flowing through these vines (see: my name), but there are lots of great things to eat there. check out the great & cheap milk bars, which serve lots of cabbage/tater/dairy/mushroom-based foods; potato pancakes, beet stews, fried mushrooms on thin pancakes, pierogis YUM MUTHERFUCKIN YUM!!!
― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 16:37 (twenty years ago) link
also: fried cauliflower!
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 16:40 (twenty years ago) link
Next time I cook something Polish, I will make extra for you or invite you over. Seonad might be able to testify to the quality of the Paczki and Peirogis.
― marianna, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 16:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 16:48 (twenty years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 16:51 (twenty years ago) link
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― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 16:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 16:53 (twenty years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 16:55 (twenty years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 16:56 (twenty years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 16:58 (twenty years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 16:59 (twenty years ago) link
in fact it sounds like a filthy act on its own
even the slow kids scored off me in school
thank god for our janitor, mr huck
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 17:00 (twenty years ago) link
― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 17:54 (twenty years ago) link
i've only been to Poland once ... my relatives cooked fine, and i thought otherwise that the food was OK. then again, i grew up eating pierogies, bigos, kielbasa, kiszke, latkes, sour cream, cucumber-and-dill soup, lotsa cabbage etc., so i'm used it to it. it's like soul food, only for slavs :-) that said, it isn't Italy or France wr2 culinary delights. polish food is like a mishmash of german and russian cuisine, with a lot of jewish cross-influences -- make of that what you will.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 30 October 2003 06:50 (twenty years ago) link
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― sucka (sucka), Thursday, 30 October 2003 09:02 (twenty years ago) link
― cameron, Thursday, 30 October 2003 11:02 (twenty years ago) link
What is this mentalism. I am going to cook some black pudding right now.
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 30 October 2003 11:04 (twenty years ago) link
― chris (chris), Thursday, 30 October 2003 11:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Thursday, 30 October 2003 11:11 (twenty years ago) link
What is this mentalism? I am chewing on raw black pudding as I write.
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 30 October 2003 11:16 (twenty years ago) link
Eric : Black pudding's very black today, mother... Mum : Yes it is very black today, dear Eric: That's very black, that is even the white bits are black...
― Skottie, Thursday, 30 October 2003 11:42 (twenty years ago) link
Also don't forget the fifty million types of herring in sauces and jars, with sour cream, dill and lots of black bread.
― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 30 October 2003 12:44 (twenty years ago) link
― cameron, Thursday, 30 October 2003 14:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Thursday, 30 October 2003 15:49 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:16 (twenty years ago) link
I think its just called the polish vodka bar, though i seem to remember my polish ex-gf calling it something in polish.
hey! everyone should go to daquise in south kensington! amazing pierogi, fiiiine-assed pork cutlet! and the pork knuckle - mmmm...
― stevie (stevie), Thursday, 30 October 2003 16:19 (twenty years ago) link
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― Skotties, Thursday, 30 October 2003 23:30 (twenty years ago) link
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― geeta (geeta), Friday, 31 October 2003 00:39 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.polish-flag.com/Polish_Eagle.jpg
― Skottie, Friday, 31 October 2003 06:46 (twenty years ago) link
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― Pete (Pete), Friday, 31 October 2003 14:14 (twenty years ago) link
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― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 16 November 2003 11:25 (twenty years ago) link
Aside from "craft" beers, is the beer good in Poland? thinking of spending some time there this summer, trying to get a grip on what delights await me.
― pet friendly (Euler), Saturday, 22 February 2020 15:44 (four years ago) link
I only know the brands commonly seen in Brooklyn, chiefly Żywiec and Okocim, both pretty good but not amazing. More or less typical European lagers. Żyviec makes a porter also that I've not had.
― Josefa, Saturday, 22 February 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link
i lived there *years* ago (and in a brewing town) and it wasn’t anything special. dark sweet, toffeeish beers, and standards like Żywiec and 10.5. nothing like the best czech pilsners or the belgian beers.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 22 February 2020 16:05 (four years ago) link
Okocim might be the best of the ever-present lagers. There is not much to pick between it and Lech, tbh. I tend to avoid Zywiec and Tyskie. They’re all good by US standards, average by German standards and sub-par by Czech ones.
There are some pretty good smaller brands you’ll find occasionally - Ciechan beers are usually worth trying.
You should be drinking wódka instead, though.
― ShariVari, Saturday, 22 February 2020 16:14 (four years ago) link
yes, i meant to say! the wódka is where it's at. a vodka for every occasion and if you haven't had too much a soothing żubrówka jabłkowem will settle the nerves.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 22 February 2020 16:27 (four years ago) link
good by US standards
Good Polish beers by US standards? Sure. Good beers, period, though? No way.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Saturday, 22 February 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
Good by mainline German standards?I have problems with vodka because of collolege but I should try to overcome it. No mixing it with orange crush at any rate. Might try to fit in a few days in Lviv too but there are other threads for that.
― pet friendly (Euler), Saturday, 22 February 2020 17:42 (four years ago) link
My boyfriend drinks Warka lager exclusively. /shrug emoji
Polish food has brought me a newfound love for dill and kielbasa. Other than that, I can leave it. Not that big on stewed things just generally.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Saturday, 22 February 2020 18:00 (four years ago) link
żubrówka jabłkowem
stupid q: is this apple-flavoured bisongrass vodka, or bisongrass vodka with an apple juice mixer, or an apple-flavoured vodka made by the same company as Żubrówka bisongrass vodka but without the grass?
<3 the regular Żubrówka that you can buy over here; I think the Polish shop in town has some other varieties which I have not yet investigated
― a passing spacecadet, Saturday, 22 February 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
bisongrass and apple juice mixer.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 22 February 2020 18:44 (four years ago) link
a 24 pack of Lomza export beer (5.7% abv) has just arrived. I'm ready!
― calzino, Monday, 6 April 2020 09:09 (four years ago) link
Seek: Kasztelan
― Sam Weller, Monday, 6 April 2020 09:24 (four years ago) link
ohh nice and strong as well!
― calzino, Monday, 6 April 2020 10:15 (four years ago) link