Pierogi Paradise
About Pierogi Paradise
Always tempted by a good dumpling, I decided to check out a new pierogi restaurant I'd noticed in Kazimierz called Pierogi Paradise.
My friends and I ordered our meals - three sets of pierogi and a chicken main. Personal saucières of butter and skwarki were a nice touch, but as the minutes dragged on our desperation-fuelled butter jokes began to wear thin. Just as we began to ponder the possibility of the service waiting on us to finish our "butter course," we finally received our dinner. The tomato and beef pierogi were overcooked and overstuffed, causing the filling to spill out of nearly every dumpling. The spinach and chicken pierogi were tasty, but would easily be shamed by any Vincent dumpling. My own pierogi szefa, curiously translated into "Patron's pierogi" in the English version, were filled with delicate farmer's cheese apparently infused with Provençal herbs, though judging by its distinctly cheesy flavour I would suggest to actually add the herbs in the future rather than just place them next to the cheese and hope something will happen. The chicken main was dry and saved only by its accompanying cranberry sauce with respectably cooked potatoes but arrived minus the advertised oscypek, adding insult to injury to a 33 złoty course.
In the end the sole redeeming factor of the Pierogi Paradise were the clumsy yet smiling servers trying their very best - not nearly enough to tempt me to ever return.
Rating:
My friends and I ordered our meals - three sets of pierogi and a chicken main. Personal saucières of butter and skwarki were a nice touch, but as the minutes dragged on our desperation-fuelled butter jokes began to wear thin. Just as we began to ponder the possibility of the service waiting on us to finish our "butter course," we finally received our dinner. The tomato and beef pierogi were overcooked and overstuffed, causing the filling to spill out of nearly every dumpling. The spinach and chicken pierogi were tasty, but would easily be shamed by any Vincent dumpling. My own pierogi szefa, curiously translated into "Patron's pierogi" in the English version, were filled with delicate farmer's cheese apparently infused with Provençal herbs, though judging by its distinctly cheesy flavour I would suggest to actually add the herbs in the future rather than just place them next to the cheese and hope something will happen. The chicken main was dry and saved only by its accompanying cranberry sauce with respectably cooked potatoes but arrived minus the advertised oscypek, adding insult to injury to a 33 złoty course.
In the end the sole redeeming factor of the Pierogi Paradise were the clumsy yet smiling servers trying their very best - not nearly enough to tempt me to ever return.
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