Restaurant reviews in Poland.

Disagree totally! has asian,arabian,greek food all mixed up! what is aithentic?lol catered to Polish taste...mostly everything with SALATKA!now tell me how many have salatka with that food?????

Perhaps you're talking about a different place. Anyway, it's entirely consistent and authentic for a Middle Eastern restaurant to serve a mix of cuisines.

Jon357,how is Mid east cuisine received in Poland?

Very popular. Not always authentic, often a Polish take on kebabs, but probably the foreign cuisine of choice nowadays.

Samira, by the way, supplies all the Arab dishes to the Sheraton Hotel, plus various embassies.

Jon37,What are Kebabs?In the U.S. they consist of chunks of meat and vegetables.Usually onions,peppers and tomatoes)on a skewer.Is this the same.I'm only asking because I seem to remember someone explaining them differently..

As long as we are on kebabs:
Is Poland the only country where you use the Döner Kebap bread as a dish and eat the filling with a fork?

No - but then the bread is sort of an edible plate, like a mega naan table cover when you have a balti or a fried tortilla used as a bowl for salad, nachos with cheese, or what have you. Get a deep frying pan and half fill with oil. Lay a tortilla on top of the hot oil and balance a ladle so the weight is resting in the centre of the tortilla. It'll fry into the shape of a bowler hat, ideal as an edible serving bowl! With pitta bread, the more filling (like, but not exclusively, a doner kebab) the more it's an edible take-out bag - you CAN eat it, maybe even in the same mouthful as the contents, but you don't have to! We "freshen" them in the oven, then slipt them open and use them for sandwiches at

home or on picnics. Excellent as road food as the contents do not escape while you're driving...

im just astonished to see that everytime i go to poland, as i have never seen it anywhere in the world.
kinda like eating hamburgers without the bun.

Do you mean U Szwejka, its the same guy who owns Jeffs and Podwale 25.

The point is that it's NOT doner bread, that's just the use in which you maybe see it more often. It's simply a flat bread which is made so that it's easy tio split and make a pocket for any filling you want to use. What's simpler as a take away bag than a tasty bread pocket you can eat?

So can someone tell me,what exactly are Kebabs?I've only ever heard of the kind that are grilled meat,chicken or fish as well as vegetables on a skewer.

He also had the German place on pl. Bankowy - that wasn't so bad.

U Fiszera on P.B and a place in Berlin also, his wife is Austrian hence the Germanic connection.

Well, wikipedia has an excellent answer here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kebab

"a wide variety of skewered meat".

Most restaurant or home-made kebabs will be skewered horizontally and barbecued or grilled, but doner kebabs, very often found as street food in the UK (and famously post-pub food!) is meat which is skewered vertically, so you have a big lump of meats consisting of many layers, and which is then turned on a vertical grill, carved in down strokes, then eaten with salad in a pitta bread pouch. In the UK the choice is usually lamb or chicken.

Kabab is grilled beef, chicken or lamb(not sure about fish or vegetable) on a small skewer.
Doner(rotating) Kebab is layers of meat on a big skewer grilled vertically and consumed with salad, sauce and in a flatbread:



Anyway what i was asking was, if Poland is the only country that doesnt eat the bread, but uses forks, as i have never seen this anywhere else.


without forks.
Would have been a perfectly good answer. ;)

Was Der/Die/Das Elefant next door also his?

P3 KEBABS in Poland are like gyros in America,with slice,grilled beef,lamb or chicken meat in pita bread and lots of salatka tosed into for polish taste and hot ot sour sauce dowsed on it.

MoOli,Thank you,Gyro's are wicked good.

Not when it was Elefant, I was informed about two years ago the whole corner was being converted into a Club after renovation..

You sure about that? I used to get into the Elefant once or twice a month and there was very certainly a link between it and Szwejk (posters for Szwejk up in the toilet, the menus offering the same specials on the same days etc). Also, as far as I remember (which is from 1997 until the place closed last year), it was always the Elefant (I lived right next door to it in '97).

I am not 100% certain, the chaps name is Artur Jarczyński I am sure you could find out if you wanted to do a check.

This interview seems to say (if I'm reading it right) that Elefant was one of his (and was his first place)
manager.inwestycje.pl/manager_360/Artur-Jarczyski;122546;0.html

That's what I thought - I remember meeting him a few years ago.

Any recommendation for good Polish food in London? :)

I would recommend the 'Cervical cancer served on beetroot carpaccio with mustard-honey dip' at Bee-Jays in Poznan.

mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/restaurant-poland-offers-cervical-cancer-1867209

Bee Jay?? wouldn't bat an eye, if I saw a restaurant name like that in Pattaya, Thailand.. but Poznan