Dom Polski

It’s ok, but it I was expecting more.
Perhaps the website made my expectations higher, or perhaps it was the good reviews I read, but honestly I was not impressed.
The house is beautiful. You feel like inside a wealthy grandmothers house, decorated up to the last edge: plates in the walls; paints; vases with flowers, cookies or candies; ornaments; heavy tablecloths and cutlery… Is like traveling in time to mid 1900s.
The food is traditional high-​end polish cuisine. Various appetizers are offered, our favorite was the oven roasted pear filled with creamy cheese. Duck pâté was not great. Beef tartar was good although you will have to mix it yourself. Probably we would have enjoyed a waiter to prepare it next to our table instead of us having to do it.
For main course, duck was very good and tender. Beef was flavorful and juicy as well.
Probably dessert was our favorite. Delicious cheesecake, ginger cake and Christmas special pastel. All very good.
But yet, the cuisine is good but not extraordinary. And the service was far behind. Multiple times our wine glasses were empty and we had no water to sip either. It took a long time between course and we had to wait for a waiter to get our attention. Not what we expected from a well known restaurant.
They host big parties on the second floor, you could feel the understaff. The waiters were truly busy from on table to the next. Perhaps adding a few staff during busy hours will ease the stress for everyone.
Overall, old-​fashion place, good quality food, service needs improvement.

Service was simply top notch. Food was even better.

Leider haben wir dies in unserem letzten Abend, wir versuchten billiges und teures Essen in Warschau und dieses war definitiv das beste der em alles, wirklich alles perfekt würde ich sagen!
Das beste Restaurant in der Stadt?

I’ll preface this by saying that I visited Dom Polski without any prior knowledge of the place and that I was a tourist from Canada — so perhaps my expectations of customer service are ill-​matched with what Dom Polski considers excellence. We ate lunch here. Having looked at the menu, it was clear that prices were much higher than anything else we’d encountered in Warsaw. Given that our other dining experiences in Poland had been excellent regardless of cost, we expected that Dom Polski would be an upscale and refined dining outing. Overall, the service was unfriendly, indifferent and apathetic. My appetizer was supposed to have red caviar on it — it did not, and when I brought this up to the waiter, I was informed that they were out of red caviar (really?). For 49zl I expected better. Then I tried to eat it anyway, but couldn’t get through half of it because the smoked salmon they used was so salty it was nauseating. I complained — no apology, just a blank stare — and of course, it showed up on the bill full price despite the missing caviar and ½ kilo of salt. Our entrees were fine but they showed up a full 50 minutes after we sat down, and no apology/​explanation for this either. For the money (300zl total + tip), I expected quick, friendly service, an edible and complete appetizer (or at least a substitution when the one I chose turned out to be inedible), and less waiting — this was lunch.
Given that we visited about a dozen restaurants all over Warsaw that week, I would say that it is my sincere hope that given the poor service, mediocre food and lack of attention to detail, people will avoid this place — other restaurants in Warsaw offer far better value, service and most of all, food quality. Of the 25 or so dining experiences I had in Poland this was the most expensive and the worst.
My Polish isn’t great, but the reviewer who complimented the décor — really? the place looks like a funeral home decorated by trinket hoarders from suburban New Jersey.