Polish Pizza !! The best in the world?

Reasonable. It is usually very very bad

In the decades I've only known two maybe three good places. One was in Ochota and was excellent. The owner had won a prize for the best pizza in Melbourne before coming to Warsaw and opening it. I think it's recently closed unfortunately. His pizzas were the best I've tasted anywhere. They were the opposite of normal Polish pizza (i.e. very good). Perhaps they were just too good for the local market.

The second was a place in the starōwka in Toruń which only had two types of pizza, with mushrooms or without and had long tables that everyone day together at (almost the opposite of any other public place in Poland). To drink, they only served barszcz. There were queues outside however it was over s decade now and I don't know if it's still open

Neither had any ketchup in sight.

The third is our local one right in the North of Warsaw. Their pizzas are good. The owner is Czech.

Odd that Poland has something nice like zapiekanka (though I've seen people ruin that with ketchup often enough) yet in a country of 37 million, they can't do a pizza.

I've also seen lasagne like a wobbly blancmange cake and some pretty bad pasta dishes

One of the things I miss from home is bolognese pizza, a Leeds speciality. Or maybe I don't miss it since in Poland it would be a tasteless dry smear probably containing pork and ketchup.

@jon357

Your hate for Poland and all things Polish is painfully palpable. But why come online, and in a forum intended for people to share things about Poland, would you come and spew your toxic venom?

Have you not better things to do? Polish pizza makes Poles happy, and ketchup is both nutritious and delicious. Accept it, you imperialist scum.

Only the pizza. It is vile.

The stuff they put on it isn't even cheese, it's "non-dairy pizza topping". Plus in PL they also often have processed pork on it.


I've hardly ever eaten the ready made stuff. It ruins anything it touches. Have you read the ingredients on the label?

The same with mayonnaise. The ready made stuff that comes in jars is just nasty even worse in sachets.

And bottled ketchup or other pots of sauce don't belong anywhere near a pizza. Or a kebab (I've sadly seen this too in Poland).


Who's invading where right now?

Here's a link to the place in Ochota. It might still be open. I hope it is and hope it's still as good.

facebook.com/pg/Cucciolina.pizza/menu/?referrer=MENU_SHARING

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Chocolate pizza does exist. I'm not sure how it works.

So does pizza with almonds and raisins in the UK, probably inspired by Peshawari Naan (a lot of pics shop proprietors come from Pakistan).

Bolognese pizza would be a hit in Poland of it was done right.

Though it wouldn't be.

The taste of pizza depends on the outlet. After years of experiments, I know where to take the family for a good pizza, both in town and countryside.


Yes, I saw it two or 3 years ago in Selgros, then it disappeared.

Polish pizza is crap.Stick to ZAPIEKANKA !

@Miloslaw

I'm the other way around. Zapiekanka is kind-of-crappy. Polish pizza ca. 2007ish is pretty good, ca. 2015 is very good, unless you go to some hillbilly joint.

I'm a yank, I know what I'm talking about. 😁

Telepizza in Katowice is not bad.

Telepizza is pretty bad generally. Not as bad as DaGrasso.

Pizza Marżano (belongs to Pizza Express in the UK) do an ok salade niçoise.

The only half OK chain I've seen in PL is Pizza Hut. A shame they don't translate the name and call it Chata Pizza.

Edit
Google says there's a local one, presumably not sued, called Pizza Chata.

@jon357

Polish pizza tends to be really crappy.
Although it can vary in quality immensely, I prefer Zapiekanka.

@jon357
Hut in German means hat, so why not Kapelusz Pizza or Pizza spod Kapelusza.

It's not a German company as far as I know. Far more countries in which it operates call a hut a hut and not a hat.

Hut sounds more like chata than kapelusz

Anyway, who would want German pizza? Lahmacun or Dõner maybe.

And hat doesn't make any sense, whereas hut does.

Pizza Hut is an American company, hence the Hut. It's ok. They make a better pizza in their Polish chains than their American ones, IMO.

I haven't been to a Pizza Hut or KFC in 30 years. The last PH Ive seen was in Florida where those rednecks havent a clue. Go to Chicago or NY for real Pizza.


Its an insult to real Pizza. They use ketchup as sauce! LOLOL

We just had a Telepizza for the first time in ages.

It was edible, except for several very long human hairs in one of the pizzas.

Don't their staff wear food prep caps?

Anyone know off the top of their head if chata and hut are cognates like chleb and loaf are?

I think so. There's something similar in Hochdeutsche.

An update.

They (UberEats) refunded the dosh straight away after receiving the photo.

Does the delivery guy still get paid in that case?


Hütte

I'm going to assume they're all related....

A couple of weeks ago I found another weird cognate pair in Polish/English but I forget what it is... I'd thought the word was romance (then remembered it's not in Spanish or Italian).....

Not being able to remember is driving me crazy...

I would hope so, and in any case if you order Telepizza (and most others near us) the delivery person is from the shop rather than UberEats. And we always tip them well anyway.

edit

The refund amount was the cost of the pizzas, 96zl and didn't include the delivery charge which is actually surprisingly small.

That's what I was thinking of.

I also saw a good one this week. And also spent an hour wondering whether "ooze" was part of the pre-IndoEuropean substrate. I need a new hobby maybe.

Now I remember.... gadać and 'quoth' (is that part of quote or a separate form?)

A literary form of that, I think.

BTW, the pizza restaurant that I've mentioned as being excellent (Cucciolina) has now closed. A great shame.

Oh, the irony! Polish Pizza! LOL Put some more corn on it! And a gallon of Ketchup to boot!

This one was actually pretty good. The guy who ran it won a prize for the best pizza in Melbourne.

Maybe it closed because it wasn't Polish enough and the pizzas weren't dry/bland/porky with dollops of tomato ketchup.

Its says it all..........

Add some smoked kielbasa (as sausage) and there is your Polish pizza.
Lately on Chemilna street they sell thin crust pizza with crappy toppings for 7 pln,goes down perfect with beer in a nearby Irish bar where I am allowed to bring my slice of pizza from that place.

Chmielna. I used to live within 1/4 mile.

I stay exactly 425 steps from Chemilna and zgoda on Zgoda,and the Irish bar is 350 steps(I counted my steps lol).
But that time Chemilna was a shi.t hole now its one of the most prestigious streets in centrum.