Polish Food is not to everyone's taste, it can be heavy and needs a good appetite…read more The Owners of this place make a point of making you feel welcome, it really is like stepping into a Neighbourhood Restaurant in Central Europe. The food is cheap and plentiful and home made off good quality. The selection of Polish Beers and Vodkas is a recipe for an unforgettable hangover. Top marks

This was my favorite restaurant on my last trip to London. It was such a wonderful atmosphere--dim,…read moreplenty of dinner chatter and relaxed. The staff were very kind and the food was incredible. Originally for dessert I planned on getting their apple pie, but everyone around me had the cheesecake. I changed my mind to join the herd and what an excellent choice. The cheesecake was stupendous. Come by and see for yourself.

Food was delicious, service was excellent. We had a set shared menu and they were able to…read moreaccommodate 20 of us.

This was right behind our hotel. I really wanted pierogis and thought the ruskies were delicious…read more My husband got the Kielbasa sandwich. Service is very good. Restaurant is huge. They have a big menu - definitely something for everyone. I definitely recommend.

Unfortunately this meal was not their best showing. What we got as a group meal, seemed like way…read moreto have get as much money as possible. Looking at their menu gives me the impression it can be good and has potential. I would not go back here backed on what we had

This restaurant is spectacular. We had the most delicious meal here and I want to go back! The…read morecheese pierogis and trio of salads are a must try, and the m chicken noodle soup was so warming and very tasty. Service was friendly and the atmosphere was wonderful. Highly recommend stopping here for a meal!

The food was really good and the service was fine. They had a wide variety of options on the menu,…read moreyet my kids really liked their food as well. I had the trout and it was delicious. The salad that came with my meal was especially good. Happy to come here again if I was in the area.

Pyrogy / Pierogi heaven! The cheese and potato purifies were to die for. Got some sour cream on…read morethe side (although not the typical North American sour cream). Best. I. Have. Had. Ever. Beetroot soup (borscht) was excellent. Cabbage rolls were good but not amazing Service was decent. Nice ambience... in an old house. I would definitely return but would just make a meal of the potato and chees pirogies.

Great find in a seemingly unlikely location. We had the mushroom and cabbage pierogi, beet and…read morecream soup, pork and sauerkraut with bulgar wheat and a salad mix. All were well-prepared and very reasonably priced (about £25 total). I'd especially recommend the beet soup. They were also very accommodating of our young child and we saw another family there with a toddler. The only miss of the evening was the almond cake, which was a little dry and bland for my taste. Highly recommend!

Was going to the fish place down the road but it was 33° and it was crazy hot in there so we walked…read moredown the street and walked in here and they had Air Conditioning it. I ordered the house rose and all three of the dumplings as a started for our family. I also ordered the cabbage rolls. My mom used to make a version of them when I was a kid. It was her grandmother's recipe. So I had to try and bring back memories. It was different than my moms but really good. My daughter had the duck and luckily for me got full so I was able to finish it. So I didn't have to have order envy. schnitzel again perfectly cooked. Great restaurant

Excellent service and food! I had the goulash in a bread bowl. Beautiful bread bowl with a lid and…read moreit was very filling.

Autentic polish, homemade food. Try their dumplings, bigos, sausage rolls & pyry z gzikiem.read more

Everything about this restaurant is pure excellence!…read more My wife used to do a lot of work with two of the local theaters in Northampton. One of them, Royal & Derngate, is just a five minute walk from Chata, so this was a regular stop for us for a meal out before or after one of her shows, or if we popped down to see one of the many great acts passing through town. I can't imagine a better restaurant in Northampton. First, the service. We were always waited on by the owner, who was always up for a great chat. An immensely friendly, welcoming, and attentive man. Second, the food! The pork shank is unreal, absolutely spectacular, and my wife always enjoyed the pierogies. The sausage appetizer with mustard is also excellent. For drinks, they offer three or four different Polish beers, of which the owner will share his candid opinions and recommend one to suit your tastes. There's also wine, and Guinness, if I recall correctly, but stick with the beer. I highly recommend the Zwiec for a super drinkable lager with better flavor depth than the others. Having been to many restaurants and pubs in Northampton, this is by far my favorite for its incredible service and food. This place is, simply put, homely, and you can't do any better than home.

This was a highlight of our trip to the UK. We almost gave up on it when our gps made navigating…read morethe one way streets all but impossible, but I'm so glad we persevered. I believe our waiter was also the owner, and he was incredibly inviting and welcoming. We ordered two platters for four of us, and we all got the beet root soup to start. We wanted to sample a little of everything, so the platters were the way to go. The food was incredible. Beef rolls that melted in your mouth, pork shanks that were worth the wait (about 20 or 25 minutes), onion pierogies, polish sausage, pork loin- every bite was just amazing. I couldn't believe that my family ate every bite- it was an enormous amount of food. Authentic, prepared with love and care. We also had a 10 month old baby with us, and she agreed that the food was delicious, as she couldn't get enough of sampling the menu either. They have an awesome high chair too that looked like it could be found in a ski lodge in the Swiss alps- rustic, sturdy, and very comfortable. The service was so friendly and helpful with offering suggestions, and even other guests in the small restaurant were friendly and willing to start up a conversation.

I've been here several times and I have never been disappointed. I am Lithuanian by heritage, not…read morePolish, but many of the dishes on the menu remind me of my childhood in Toronto growing up in the Polish/Eastern European enclave. I am a slave to pierogies and cannot get enough of them. When I first went to Stacja there was only the shop couple doors down from Stacja that had any sort of Eastern European food. Luckily there has been more shops opening up, but Stacja is still the place to go if you want it cooked right. The ambiance of the restaurant is fairly generic, rather frugal looking, but the food is cooked simply and well. The wait staff are Polish as are the cooking staff, and it reminds me of the food I ate when visiting the Suwalki region of Poland back in the 1988. The cocktails are wunderbar as well. Took some friends here and they couldn't get enough of the Tequila Sunrises. Nor of the fact that there is a pool table in the middle of the restaurant. So whilst digesting all the scrummy food you can hit a few balls. I would recommend this place. The sausages, pierogies, soups, breads, salads, and saurkraut are out of this world.

I am an avid lover of Polish food and have been to Poland several times. I an always looking for…read moreplaces to satisfy my cravings in London and I am soooo happy to report that Sowa is an excellent option. The restaurant itself is located on a side street in Ealing Broadway. It's a large glass-fronted restaurant with a bakery on the other side of a smart glass partition. A light, bright, airy room with comfy chairs and a smart set-up. Onto the food: my greedy friends and greedy self tried ALOT of food last night. The mixed dumplings were good, all fillings tasty and dumpling skin nicely chewy, these weren't pan-fried though which is my preference. Served with onions, sour cream and smoked bacon. Boar dumplings with creamy mushroom sauce was lovely, super-stuffed with boar meat. Mmmmmm. Steak tartare was small but price reflected this, beetroot carpaccio was beautifully presented and so were the herrings, all of these were lovely, good starters. The beetroot soup was excellent. I had the pork tenderloin for mains, oh gosh, it was so soft and tasty, I was so surprised!! Mash was good, needed more sauce though and the salad didn't match the rest of the plate, veg would have been better. My friend's salmon dish was tasty and beautifully presented, just not typically Polish in my opinion. But, I was here for the potato pancakes with mushroom sauce.....90% as good as the Polish cafe in Gdansk which stole my heart. We had 2 desserts which were lovely, tip: walk over to the bakery and pick your cake from the bakery, not just from the menu. Both were lovely. 2 soft drinks, 2 hot drinks and all this food came to £90. Excellent value, service, atmosphere and I loved the food. Afew tweaks would make this place great-cranberries on pierogi, sprouts and salad garnishes didn't work in most cases and they need to re-word the menu as it just didn't do the food justice. And they need to offer their dumplings pan-fried!! Overall a great option, I am so happy I found this place!!

If you're craving pierogies at lunchtime, come here. There are plenty of tables, decent service,…read moreand you can even watch the woman who makes them (behind a glass wall)! You can get a small or a large portion, and they come with caramelized onions on top. Aside from pierogies, the lunch menu is on the smaller side (for someone with food restrictions, anyway). That said, my warm tomato soup was delicious and comforting. (I don't believe it's gluten-free, as there are pieces of something resembling spätzle in it.) They were even nice enough to treat my husband's pierogies and my soup as one (affordable!) 2-course lunch. On the other side of the restaurant is the patisserie, with delicious-looking tarts behind the counter and small tables perfect for an espresso-and-pastry break.