Oberża Pod Czerwonym Wieprzem

This is such a cute restaurant. The decoration was really interesting and homey and made me want to have a few pints with friends. There were many big groups having dinner when I went and it seemed like the perfect place meeting place. The food was good and affordable but I found that compared to other European countries prices in Poland are really good for food, hotel, taxi, etc… I had traditional Russian pierogis with a mug of borsch. My bf had the ribs which he loved and picked all the meat off the bone. Great place for traditional polish dinner especially with friends or family.

Appetizer: mushroom Perogies and Borsch. The Perogies were actually decent but the flavours not too exciting. Not much depth but probably a good quality polish staple. The Borsch soup that was suggested to come with it actually did improve the Perogies as it added a strong beet flavour. Traditional Borsch is not just a clear soup but in combination with the Perogies this was actually good. I would order this appetizer again.
Main dish and this is where the issue lies: no boar (or any meat for that matter) should ever be accompanied by such a sad side salad. Ever. Period. Meat: stuffed wild boar. Well, this was what we call roulade in Germany, it’s thin slices of meat wrapped around something inside, ie. Mushroom, bacon and mustard in this case. However, it is not stuffed to my definition of stuffed at least. By construction this type of meat ends up well done plus, ie not what I want from a boar. Wild mushrooms: maybe but no strong flavours and not exactly many of them. Flavour wise I would not have been able to determine that this is wild boar and I have had wild boar before many times. It was tender but these roulade type of dish get cooked very long and a beef version would been have about as good. For a wild boar this was about as dry as you can get it. And it was probably less dry due to the bacon… Polish gnocchi: not different from other gnocchi despite claim that they are… see service below. Would not order this dish again… ever.
Desert: hot plums with vanilla ice cream: hard to get wrong. Good. Too little ice cream. Would order this again.
Conclusion: the proletariat dishes (in my case appetizer and desert) are better as they are simple and classic polish staples. The bourgeoisie dishes ask for sophistication that is clearly beyond the ability of the chef. Three star rating. Would be higher for proletariat dishes only but then warrant a different price point…
Atmosphere: cozy but many foreigners. Should have been a red flag.
Service: fast but rushed and not what I expect at this price point. My question on how polish gnocchi are different from standard gnocchi was answered with ‘very’ and honestly I wasn’t able to tell what’s different other than these were made in Poland.

You have to go to this place if you want to try a typical polish diner !
The service is nice, the place is cosy and very tasty.
I recommand the «housewife’s bouillon». The dumblings with mushrooms and sauerkraut are a little bit spicy!
The french fries are like Mcdonalds fries, but the quarters of roast potatoes are good !
The brownie is excellent

Polnisches Essen — wirklich???
Da war ich schon sehr skeptisch, bei all den guten Bewertungen. Da ich aber gerne nach dem Motto «Eat local!» lebe, machte ich mich zu Fuss auf, um dieses Polnische Restaurant zu besuchen.
Obgleich das Restaurant sehr voll war und ich keine Reservierung hatte, wurde ich sehr freundlich empfangen. Nachdem mir die Jacke abgenommen war, wurde ich direkt an meinen Tsch gefuehrt und mit Speisekarte in English und einem Tischlicht in Form einer Kerze versorgt.
Der Service war sehr prompt, freundlich und bot auch sofort Beratungsleistung an, die ich aber leider nicht nutzte und somit viel zu viel bestellte (der Kellner hatte mich aber gewarnt).
Ich bekam sofort mein Bier und kurze Zeit spaeter kam auch schon meine Vorspeise — Beef Tatar — geschmacklich sehr gutes Fleisch in grosser Ausfuehrung mit vielen Zutaten (Kapern, Zwiebeln, Pilze, Ei, Gewuerze, …). Dazu gab’s Butter und hervorragend gutes Brot.
Eigentlich haett’s nach dem Beef Tatar schon gereicht. Dies merkte auch der Kellner, welcher mir nun einen Wodka empfahl.
Gestaerkt durch den Wodka stuerzte ich mich nun auf meine gemischte Fleisch/​Wurst-​Platte, die sehr vorzueglich mit Senf und Meerrettich begleitet wurden. Leider war die Portion soooo gross, dass ich nicht alles aufessen konnte (noch ein Wodka war zwischenzeitlich notwendig).
Waehrend des Essens beobachtete ich, was die Kueche den anderen Gaesten so anbot und ich muss sagen, es sah alles sehr, sehr gut aus.
Das Restaurant ist auch sehr geeignet fuer groessere Gruppen (es gibt auch ein paar Seitenraeume). Sehr wahrscheinlich werde ich mal mit meinem Team da hingehen, aber auch privat ist’s interessant, da die Preise sehr guenstig sind.
Und ueberigens: selbst wenn man allein ist, die Speisekarte und die Geschichten darauf koennen einen den Abend gut beschaeftigen!
Polnisches Essen — jederzeit gerne wieder hier!!!

We were here last Saturday evening for dinner, after our first choice of a restaurant turned out to be closed (indefinitely, perhaps). Anyway, we arrived around 18:30, and the dining hall seemed full already. We pleaded to the host, who found us a table that was free for an hour and 45 minutes. We took it.
The menu was amusing and full of stories, with every section divided into Proletariat and Bougeouisie (how the heck do you spell that word?). Obviously, the Proletariat dishes were more modest.
My companion ordered three first courses, while I ordered a soup followed by a main course. The staff was accommodating with our modified set up. My Warsaw tripe soup was very tasty, and I was convinced that they can handle tripe as well as the Florentines. And my ribs were very tender and juicy as well; I might even say that they were the best ribs I have had in a while.
It’s a little kitschy, I know. But even though they feature the pig a lot, and even offer 5L beer tubes, what matters most is the food, which they do well. So it’s not just an experience, but a good restaurant as well, that I should say tourists are outnumbered by the locals, at least during the evening we were there.

I love Polish food and this is provably my favourite place. Great ambiance along with great food!

First off, it’s a short education in history, the two menus (bourgeois and the proletariat) seem ridiculous to us now, but that’s how it used to be. The staff is very nice, cordial, and speak english which is incredibly helpful. The menus are also in english, not sure about other languages.
I also really like the décor and the uniform of the waitstaff. The owners and the staff look like they care about the place and about working there.
The food I ordered was delicious. My dad is a master at placki ziemniaczane [potato pancakes] and the ones I ate here were damn near close to the ones I am used to. Sałatki (side salads) were very good as well. Soups — amazing; hubs had the tripe soup and he was a fan.
My only issue was with the sparkling water, it was Pellegrino… there’s SO MANY mineral water brands in Poland that would be more appropriate to serve at a themed establishment such as this, that I just didn’t get the whole Pellegrino thing. Hahahaha, but that’s pretty good if that is my only complaint.

Well Firstly if Bruce Willis can eat here and have a drink named after him it’s certainly worth looking into. Upon arrival walking out into the crisp polish air I smelled the restaurant and immediately got excited. The wooden pig as you enter and Bruce Willis framed photo made this even better. The food was great. Dumplings awesome, wild boar was wild, the prawns where actually shrimp but F-​it it was amazing. I drank a Bruce Willis and it was enjoyable and I could drink it again. I feel like men and woman could both drink it and it’s tasty enough to accidentally get drunk. AKA — sex potion. Bruce Willis you are a sly cat. All in all I had a wonderful dining experience here and I recommend anyone to check out this communist themed restaurant with democratically acclaimed food. The polish are known for their potatoes and vodka and well add this Warsaw gem to the list for bringing it all together.

Park the wheel-​barrow at the door, you’re going to need it after. Polish food is energy dense to say the least.
Perogis, pork knuckle, sauerkraut, spreadable bacon grease… It was all good. I can’t eat like this often, but this is my first time here so I want to try it all.
Service is polite– but so far everyone in Poland has been very polite (I’m pointing at you Italy!).
My tip would be to share. That’s what we did, and although not a common strategy locally, people were ordering their own starters and mains ect., we wanted to try a bunch of things so ate family style. The staff seemed cool with it.

This is a very funny and interesting consept for a modern restaurant. It shows how many restaurants used to be during the soviet union. They used to have 2 different menues, one for the poor and another for the wealthy.
The food that I tried, General Tao’s chicken, or something like that, was absolutely amazing. Wanted to go back and have it again.
It was also possible to buy a super sized tube pitcher with beer.
All in all, a fantastic experience for a tourist in Warzaw.

PRL style. Not so good food, but nice place to show old times.