Polonia - Brisbane

My partner is Polish, so she arranged a group to taste Polish cuisine. The Polish club is located in Marie St Milton, right on Park Road, with plenty on site and street parking. We went for the Friday night special menu. We shared the house... special pork cnuckle, cooked to fall perfection with bone meat and some traditional pierogis and potato pancakes. The inexpensive menu is extensive Polish for every taste including deserts. Our guests who ordered the cnuckle could not eat anything, so I recommend sharing. They have a good selection of inexpensive Polish beers up to 9.2% alcohol content. House wine is available. It is more of a community club and the decor is suitable for families. When more people arrive, you will be caught in the loud family spirit. We finished a great night with some traditional vodka shots. Electronic payment options are available. The service was excellent. Worth a visit. My tip order the Pork Knuckle as it requires long-lasting slow cooking and you might miss.

Our dinner was nice! Pierogi, Tripe soup, Krokiety, Barszcz and much more. Delicious Polish foods that are explained in English do not have to be Polish to enjoy a meal there. Large selection of Polish drinks. Restaurant is very good...with large portions. Ask for the Polish market days that are definitely worth a visit twice a month. Large selection of homemade Polish dishes and many other Polish treats for sale on the Polish market.

Food is amazing and authentic with extremely helpful staff. Alcohol is very cheap and it is worth it. Large selection of European beers and vodkas.

You don't need to be Polish to enjoy good polish food and beer. The food is great. They have authentic Polish beer. some go to 8% alcohol ! Pace yourself ! While you wouldn't go there for the view or the decor but the food...is excellent and at very reasonably prices. nothing over $20 unless you have their famous Friday night pork knuckles. Club manager Jadwiga Bajan can explain in detail everything on the menu and give advice on the beers. They also have Polish vodka. Haven't tried that yet ! Its only a 2 minute walk off Park Road in Milton where there are some top restaurants. this is a gem worth a visit.

Finally got around to visiting the restaurant in the Brisbane Polish Club. Friday is pork knuckle day- but only for dinner, due to the prep time required for the meat. Unfortunately my mate and I were there for lunch. The upside of this, however, was...that it gave us more room to sample a larger selection of the menu. Let 's get what is possibly the only negative out of the way first. Another reviewer wrote that the dining area looks like a bingo hall. The décor is spartan and there is no getting away from it. But I 'm a guy who has eaten from a vac-formed plastic table while sitting on an upturned plastic milk carton on the side of the road in both Malaysia and rural Indonesia with waste and storm water running down the drain less than six feet away and the piquant odour of truck and car exhaust in my nostrils. While it can be said that the décor of a place adds to the dining experience, I 'm really not going to go to town deriding a restaurant or café over its choice of tables and chairs or what is has on its walls- unless the place is truly filthy. Polonia is clean and cheerful, upstairs, and away from the heat and humidity of what is now mid-summer in Brisbane. To complain would be somewhat churlish. The menu offers a relatively small but varied example of Polish fare. The two of use shared the zapiekanka and gołąbki as starters and the goulash and bigos for the main courses. All washed down with a cleansing Polish beer. Like most cuisines of its type, bigos and gołąbki will vary slightly in composition from region to region, town to town, and even within a town where someone 's babcia has added her own individual stamp to these iconic dishes. The food at Polonia all tasted terrific, were generous portions, appeared to be lovingly prepared and, from my point of view, as authentic as you are likely to get short of boarding a 'plane and jetting off to Warszawa. Service was cheerful and with a minimum of fuss. Other diners weren 't all expatriate Poles. It looks as though the locals working in the area immediately around the club have found out about it one way or another. Why it took me so long to try the place, I don 't know. But it won 't be too long before I 'm back there- probably to test myself against the pork knuckle.