Mamuśka!

Extremely good value for money. The courses are large and don’t leave you wanting for more. The food comes relatively quickly given the popularity of the restaurant. Would definitely eat here again!

Good Polish home style cooking restaurant. Great food and good atmosphere at very reasonable prices.

Got dinner here and it definitely satiated. The dumpling appetizers were something worth trying. They mixed our order to be in dining which caused a bit of delay but offered us a delicious piece of cake.

relaxed, friendly and reasonable Polish bar/​lunch counter/​café now located across the street from the Elephant & Castle shopping centre. Bonus points for being open late — good spot to gas up the tank and pregame before a night out…

Very reasonably priced café serving both Polish dishes and some English dishes. I ended up going for scrambled eggs on toast. Eggs were nice, slightly over done but came on amazing toasted crusty bread. (Visit — 15/​05/​2015 Breakfast)

Well done! I got the veggie pierogi, filled with spinach, goat cheese and potato, with sour cream. Savoury, doughy pockets made me happy, as did the fragrant carrot and leeks side. The marlenka is also nice– a generous slice, sweet with honey but not overwhelmingly so, for 2.50 quid. All in all, for about 8 quid for everything, Mamuska is winning! The lovely attitudes of the staff also helped.

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Polish food is something that I find delightful, I like the content, meat, starchy, carbs, onion, cabbage, garlic, yum. Kills me but its nice homely, comfort food.
Atmosphere: Well as it does describe on its website it is located in the ‘pit of despair’ that is elephant and castle shopping centre, at least it understands that. Once you go in, you can sort of forget where you are — not too much. Its half café/​half restaurant/​half canteen… ok thats three halves… The décor is black and red, and its no frills. You have to order your food at the till and then pick it up on black plastic trays once it is ready, and clear up after yourself. Think cross between maccy Ds and Wimpys.
The food/​Price: The food was good, quite basic, was clear it wasn’t prepared in house, very canteenesque, but the prices were super reasonable. And the variety of polish food on offer was delightful. We had Schabowy, Smalec, Ruskie Perogi, Kopytka, Gherkins, Barsaz to share and i think even with the vodka drink we had — was only £15 each.
Pretty good evening, I’d say nice mid week evening out, simple different food, near to anyone south, cheap and cheerful!

A lovely little place to stumble across! The pirogi were excellent and so was the livers!!!

Cheap, tasty, filling Polish food. The pierogi are amazing, I will definitely be back!

The real deal. I’m half Polish, and this pretty much reminds me of the food I grew up with. Hearty, hearty, hearty. Cheap, too!

Summary… I purchased a loyalty card day one, that should speak for itself.
I can’t say that this place trumps Barbakan in York for Polish cuisine, but I’m not paying those (already reasonable) prices either. This place is open late, has a friendly owner, good food, good Bloody Marys, and alcoholic smoothies… it’s a dream come true for someone hungover that spent most of their pennies the previous night. (Polish cuisine is good comfort food IMHO.)
Some friends and I actually came in here for breakfast with it not dawning on us that it would be, well, a breakfast menu… we enjoyed it all the same, but ventured around London only to come back because I HAD to have the pierogis (Polish dumplings) and happily they were worth the trip back. If you’re a true connoisseur of these little pockets of delicious you may say you’ve had better, but again… for the hours and price I’m not complaining about my experience here and happily plan to come back as my first line indicates.
Perhaps my only stinger, is you had to «purchase» a loyalty card… they weren’t free, and I don’t remember how much they were, but it was by no means expensive and I already have about £2.00 towards my next adventure so it is what it is.

Andrew M’s alphabet dining group reached the letter P and we descended on Mamuska for Polish food. Located inside Elephant and Castle shopping centre, there were throngs inside on Friday evening with a healthy representation from the Polish community
The first thing which struck me was how reasonable prices were on the menu. £6 for a main and £3 foir a starter in London town is a steal and let me assure you the portion sizes were generous
You snag a table and then order at the counter. However, be sure to listen for your number being called as the food is delivered. Go collect it or you’ll be summoned with an even louder bellow!
We tried a large selection of dishes, using the time honoured alphabet dining tradition of taking a mouthful and passing the dish to your right. I did enjoy the pierogi dumplings for starter
The waitress recommended the kielbasa (Polish sausage), which was wonderfully moist and heavy with herbs. The roast pork was great too
If you’ve a tenner in your pocket and a taste for something different, you can do a lot worse than Mamuska!

The Unilocal reviews brought me to Mamuska! mainly because of my quest for amazing pierogis in London. My previous pierogi knowledge is based on the hundreds of bags of frozen perogies I have consumed over the years from Canadian supermarkets. I’m searching for a great pierogi experience in London, which brought us to the Elephant and Castle shopping mall.
The prices here are fantastic! Its very much self serve to keep prices down. It’s true, you can eat like a king for a tenner.
I ordered the potato pancakes with sour cream and the potato, cheese and onion pierogis with bacon and sour cream. I was a bit disappointed with the potato pancakes, they were overcooked and burned around the edges. I wouldn’t have served them to customers. It was also the Englishman’s first experience with Polish delights, having ordered the potato pancakes with the pork goulash, so I was disappointed it was substandard in that sense as they ended up being pretty dry in the middle. The pork goulash was lovely though. I was so disappointed after reading all the Unilocal reviews about the potato pancakes that I would give Mamuska! a second chance to redeem themselves with the pancakes, possibly going for the pork goulash option.
The pierogis were good, but not the best in my opinion. I would say these are pretty standard, most likely frozen. They were good, not amazing though. The great pierogi quest of London continues.
Let me know if you have any suggestions for the best pierogis in London!

Cheap, filling and delicious. I’ve just come home from having eaten a pile of delicious fried potato pancakes topped with mushroom sauce and a side of beetroot salad all for less than a tenner and I’m stuffed. The fried, brown edges of the pancakes were the best bit… though it was a bit stodgy and I do feel a bit dirty (but not ashamed).
There’s also a jug of tap water on the side from which you can help yourself. This pleases me so much that I don’t mind the water being warm.
It’s relaxed, friendly and this evening (Weds) it was pretty quiet, which enabled a nice long time to chat and eat slowly. I’ve been before when it’s been crazy packed though so it definitely depends.

I needed somewhere cheap and cheerful for a group of us at work to eat out.
I think it’s probably the best value café in all London.
The food was very nice, the beer was very nice. Room acoustics are a bit difficult and it’s a bit dark. But the staff are fantastic.
I rather like the surrealism of going into Elephant & Castle shopping centre for an evening meal.
There was another works party in there, they were having an ‘austerity night out’ and enjoying it as much as we did.
Very highly recommended.

Mamuska offer many different of foods& all of the
personnel here are very friendly and amenable. They are willing and helpfully
explained if you are not familiar in their offer menu, they are very attentive
and alert also And I found out that their meals is very delicious a
competitive food yet reasonable price that surely fits to your budget. It is
definitely a great place to visit for. It’s one of the best places that I ever
come in. Highly recommended to
everyone.

Pierogi!
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Anyone who knows me knows I’m weirdly obsessed with Polish food and this place really floats my boat. I plan to return next time I’m in London, it may even be worth hanging around E & C again!

Delicious Polish food at a reasonable price. [Agreed about the run-​down Elephant & Castle though.] This was our first dinner stop on our London trip and it did not disappoint this 2^nd-​generation Polish gal.
Cheese and potato pierogies, ample chicken soup and excellent schnitzel were accompanied by authentic Polish beer Lech and Zyweic. Yum.

Quick glance:
+ no fill, cafetaria-​style
+ good value and filling
— little flexibility in your orders
I used to live around Elephant and Castle so the shopping centre in which Mamuska is located in is a familiar place to me, and consequently it’s not as terrifying as everyone else have made it sound!
A Polish colleague brought me here for lunch so he knew the score, which I was grateful for because I would have been very lost on my own! For the uninitiated, you order and pay at the counter, sit down at any of the empty tables, wait for your order number to be called, retrieve your food from where you ordered, eat your meal, and when you finish bring your tray and rubbish to the rack by the front door.
I gave the dumplings a try. Initially I thought 10 for £5 was going to leave me hungry, but half way through my meal I realised how dense the fillings were and appreciated that £5 is a great value for that amount of food. I particularly enjoyed the rushkie pierogi, or the potato and cheese dumplings, although I found the chicken dumplings too dry.
The downside to the 10-for-£5 dumplings is that you can’t mix and match the different flavours, instead you have to buy half portions (five of each flavour) at £3 per half-​portion.

This only Polish milk bar (equivalent to English greasy spoon) in London (if not in UK) is the only good reason for me to visit Elephant & Castle.
The initially raw décor revoked the memories of the Polish milk bars from the Communism time, especially as the spoons on chains could suggest the one from a cult comedy of the time Mis (Teddy Bear). However, since my first visit, the place evolved dramatically (possibly due to lack of understanding of the reference among the local clientele:)).
Currently the restaurant shows Polish artists living in the UK, broadcasts Polish TV, plays Polish charts and offers Polish émigré magazines. But despite the strong Polish accents, the place is visited by international crowd, longing for Polish national delicacies, which in Mamuska are not only delicious, but also very cheap.
A massive portion of potato pancakes in wild mushroom sauce or dumplings (with meat, sauerkraut & mushrooms, bacon and sauerkraut fillings) you will pay only £5! Additionally, for just £1 you can order compote, fresh salad or gherkins in brine that will for sure go well with another Polish speciality vodka served from freezer, fridge and from the counter.
It wouldn’t be a Polish bar if it didn’t have borsch with croquet (menu says it’s home made, but I have doubts about it), Russian salad, black pudding and cheese cake which are as good as at home, made by our Mamuskas.