Polish cookbook - down to earth hearty Polish cuisine

Sadly I never got a sniff at that. Too much Home Counties wedding reception food to really penetrate pit villages.


Mmmm. The Berni Inn was where we always went for special treats. Never the steak though and always "we'll have the coffee at home" to save money. I miss them. The local Berni is now a Wetherspoon's and not the same.

Findus crispy pancakes were lovely. Viennetta too when it came out despite being basically a Soviet idea (and you used to see those 'icemastry' places in Poland doing them from scratch.


I never had that chance. It was always "get out of my kitchen". It was always presented as something of a mystery where more could go wrong than right. When I had to start cooking, I got the Delia complete cookery course on special offer and never looked back.

Prawn cocktail? Maybe the nicest food I've every eaten in any restaurant in Poland was a prawn salad that was basically a humongous prawn cocktail. That was in Gdynia, just by the port.

This place sounds like a dream. Apparently at any one time, a small percentage of their customers are all dressed up for their final restaurant meal; very much a place for very elderly north Londoners.

They do all the 70s posh stuff like Steak Diane and Veal Holstein and have an amazing dessert trolley.

Proper old fashioned with peach wallpaper and not a retro hipster place.

foodieexplorers.co.uk/oslo-court-restaurant-st-johns-wood-london/

I only ever went once when I was invited by a friend's parents. Going out for a meal, at least in my circles, was relatively rare. Hard to believe when it's so commonplace these days.


I must admit I've had my share of kitchen disasters in my time!


Fair play. I've not met that many men who are into cooking to be honest although I think everyone should be able to cook a few basic meals.


Yum! Love anything with prawns but haven't encountered that much seafood in Poland as I've been inland more than on the coast.


I would so like to go there.....that menu looks amazing! There are so many things I like I'd be really hard pushed to choose what to have. Not many places like that around anymore.