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Talk about rotten luck – as unfortunate as the lockdown was for Warsaw’s more established hangouts, it came as even tougher news for the newbies yet to truly establish themselves. Now reopened, we present a fab five that were just gaining traction before you-know-what happened. Let the summer belong...

Breakfast: The Cool Cat

Features Restaurants 2 February 2020 0

Cool For Cats? In its unrelenting search for Warsaw’s top brekkie, the Insider touches down in Powiśle’s Cool Cat… The Place In terms of the interior, what you’re looking at is a venue cast from concrete and tangles of pipework. There are blasts of contemporary artwork, but your attention...

Koreanka Grill

Restaurants 19 August 2019 0

Perhaps no-one person has shaped Warsaw’s Asian path more than restaurateur Yeunsu Lee. Now, for her latest concept, she explores the pleasures of the Korean grill, a group slanted affair in which diners heap marinated bulgogi, rib-eye steak and Mangalica pork underneath overhead heaters. Complimented by bitsy starters, everything...

Gado Gado

Restaurants 21 July 2019 0

Previously known as Warung Jakarta, the menu here has a street food edge with secret magic recipes extending to Nasi Goreng and a lively chicken Rendeng. Accessible to all levels of income, it’s become one of the true unsung glories of ethnic Warsaw. Gado Gado ul. Piękna 28/34

Bangkok Soi

Restaurants 3 April 2019 0

Without being privy to statistics, you’d hazard a guess this was the most blogged about restaurant of March 2019. Small and informal, the narrow choice makes it easy to sample everything within a couple of visits – and it’s likely you’ll return to do just that. Replicating the street...

Yatta Ramen

Restaurants 12 November 2018 0

Already recognizable from Nocny Market, the success of Marcin and Przemek’s mobile ramen stop has been such that a bricks-and-mortar venue was deemed necessary. Scruffy, frayed and clattery, the stationary address feels the ideal outlet for their operation: step inside to join other hip creatures Instagramming the only jiro...

Notes: Shoku

Blog 11 November 2018 0

Most places that claim to serve fusion do so because of an identity crisis. At Shoku, though, the mix and match approach when it comes to Asia (if it’s tasty, stick it on the menu!) feels rational and put together. Never short of custom, locals gather inside a bright,...

Notes: MOD

Blog 7 November 2018 0

As extraordinary as it is eccentric, MOD is not your conventional restaurant. An odd meeting of ideas, it combines the work of three people (Kamila, Patrycja and Trisno) who between them have created a space that houses both a donut store and restaurant. It sounds a little dissonant, but...

Pera

Restaurants 16 October 2018 0

Inspired by their owner’s travels to New York, Dubai, Berlin and Paris, Pera looks to present a mix of Mediterranean and Asian tastes courtesy of Nestor Grajewski – he’s cooked for Scorsese, Diaz and Di Caprio, now he’s cooking for you! From the same team behind the long-established Maho...

Notes: Yache Korea

Blog 29 September 2018 0

Though best known as Warsaw’s principal source of craft beer, Nowogrodzka is starting to show it’s more than just a one-trick pony. Helping the food angle along is this newbie, a tiny Korean joint with an even smaller menu. So far so good, with the bulgogi arguably being the...