Warszawa Restaurant in Santa Monica offers five kinds or pierogi, numerous Polish salads and soups and other Polish specialties.
THEY AREN'T POLISH.
Get it into your head, will you? Those salads and soups bear NO relation to anything consumed in Poland, today or in yesteryear. They're invented to suit American tastes. I've linked you to an authentic Polish restaurant - but you just can't accept it, can you?
It is indeed real Polish food although somewhat expensive, but there are numerous wealthy Polish-Americans, and other people in Southern Califoria, that can afford it and they have made it an extremely successful restaurant.
It bears no relation to Polish food as anyone actually living in Poland can attest to.
Seriously, are you on commission or something? The food there is modern Northern European, yes - but not Polish.
People claiming Polish food must be cheap and simple are quite simply wrong.
Wrong? When was the last time you visited Poland and visited an authentic Polish restaurant?
It is true that decades of Soviet domination left Poland poor but that doesn't mean that the rich culinary traditions of previous Polish history are no longer Polish.
Plenty of people nowadays in Poland can eat whatever they like. They certainly aren't eating the faux-Polish food at "Warszawa".
I suspect that those on the thread saying otherwise do so because they themselves are rather lowbrow and they feel intimidated by refined Poles and so they foolishly pretend that all Poles are as uncultured as themselves.
Actually, we live in Poland. When was the last time you visited, again?
Perhaps a Polish reader of this thread could examine it and tell us if the dishes offered are Polish or not.
Just showed it to a Polish business owner from a upper-middle class family. It was laughed at.