Polish Food and Drink

Whereabouts you going?

Warsaw, and Bialystock briefly, but mostly Biolewieza (sp?) and Krakow.

Pickels round that way a re pretty good too, not to mention bits and bobs of fried cheese.

also have polish sausages (kielbasa) and peirogi's by the plateful.

The beer is pretty good. The food is indescribably awful.

Kraków's a pretty city, at least the old center and Kazimierz, where there are a lot of cafes and pubs. The big churches are fantastically decorated and cared for.

I'm sorry, but the food is rotten.

I am still a bit nervous cos even among sane people Polish food doesn't have a great rep.

They do borscht in Poland, I think, which is TASTY. also vodka with bits of gold in it.

because it's one of the foods of the gods?

I love pierogis. The polish bar in Holborn does sausages that they cut criss-cross and heat up and they go like hedgehogs.

Seems to me that Polish food is getting a lot of bad press from people on this board who haven't had much *variety* of it.

you mean you just didn't? You'll be telling me next you don't like beef dripping

Patio in Shepherd's Bush is good for Polish food too(not as good as home cooking though).

Even better, there is a Pizza Hut in the old city.

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.

meat, potatos and lard - who couldn't love Polish food?

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!!!

also: fried cauliflower!

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.

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

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.

What is this mentalism. I am going to cook some black pudding right now.

What is this mentalism? I am chewing on raw black pudding as I write.

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...

Also don't forget the fifty million types of herring in sauces and jars, with sour cream, dill and lots of black bread.

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...

http://www.polish-flag.com/Polish_Eagle.jpg

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

good by US standards

Good Polish beers by US standards? Sure. Good beers, period, though? No way.

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.

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.

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

bisongrass and apple juice mixer.

a 24 pack of Lomza export beer (5.7% abv) has just arrived. I'm ready!

Seek: Kasztelan

ohh nice and strong as well!