Reply #45: If you're ever in London, check out the 'Bigos' at the Daquise [View All]

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restaurant in South Kensington: it's a 'huntsman's stew' of smoked garlick sausage/pastrami/lamb cooked with wild mushrooms (porcini/ceps), sauerkraut and onion. If your gastro-intestinal tract can handle it, follow up with 'sledzie' - marinated roll mop herrings with/without sour cream and chives. A bottle of Zywiec beer and/or a quick gulp of Zubrowka vodka should clean the palate in time for a slice of 'makowiec' - brioche cake lined with a thick layer of cooked poppyseeds/honey/spice. Or go for the obvious - 'sernik' - a cooked cheesecake with lemon and sultanas. Finish with a glass of 'wisniowka' - polish cherry vodka.

NB if Daquise is closed, there's always 'Ognisko' in nearby Exhibition Road, located in the basement of the Anglo-Polish Conservative Club (ok, the photos of Pilsudski and Cardinal Ratzinger might put you off your appetite! quite apart from the politics of the staff...) but the upside is its got a £5 eat all you can menu, similar to the Daquise)