Warszawa Polish Restaurant
Address:
1414 Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90401
Phone:
(310) 393-8831
Hours:
- Tue: 6am-11pm
- Wed: 6am-11pm
- Thu: 6am-11pm
- Fri: 6am-11pm
- Sat: 6am-11pm
- Sun: 5pm-10pm
Other Details:
Polish cuisine occupies a distinctive place among Slavic food because foreign influences abound throughout Poland's long history. Ancient merchants traveling the famous amber trail from Byzantium through Poland brought exotic spices like cinnamon and cloves, while invaders from Asia brought steak Tatar, and Bona Sforza. In the early 16th century, the Italian wife of King Sigismund I introduced many kinds of pastas and new vegetables. King Stefan Batory, a Hungarian, introduced spicy paprika, and the French wife of Jan Sobieski, who saved Vienna from invading Turks in 1683, imbued our cuisine with many French flavors. Austrian occupiers gave us the tradition of incredible delicate pastries. The result is that together with Poland's own abundant products of agriculture and forests (wild berries, mushrooms, honey, and game), these foreign influences caused Polish food to evolve into a rich cuisine, filled with a variety of mouth-watering dishes, many of them vegetarian.
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