The Centre for Polish Arts and Culture

Worth a visit for the 1970s Eastern Bloc timewarp décor alone. The food in the restaurant is unspectacular but cheap, and the service prompt and friendly. We went on Saturday night and there was a three –piece band cranking out cheesy background until, about 9, the lights snapped off, the drummer revealed himself to also be a vocalist and the band began covers of hits I’d long tried to forget. But it sure got everyone on the dance floor, the high point being «Sex Bomb».
Then downstairs to catch the end of a rather good jazz set in the bar, where the bartender gave us a tour of the vodka selection. An excellent evening.

My wife is polish and we watched Poland vs. Brazil in the world championships volleyball … It’s great they have a place like this where polish people away from home can be in touch with their culture and also come together to cheer on their team for victory! :) deco is a bit dated, but atmosphere was great :)

The Lowiczanka restaurant is on the conservatively decorated first floor of the well used rather charmless building that is a Polish cultural centre for West London. It is a traditional/​classic and semi-​formal/​smartish affair, but has probably the best range and quality of Polish cuisine around green salads and vegetables (not all pickled) along with duck, salmon and chicken (not mainly pork) and you could even have three different courses where not one necessarily includes potatoes! Good for twos, fours or larger groups when they have evening entertainment, community bands etc take your Mamuska along!
There is a smaller side café downstairs in the Centre, which is like a busy good-​value working persons café and a more active slice of community life to go alongside the adverts for nannies and the groups of prospective builders waiting early for work on the nearby street corner. The coffee and tea is not at all bad there and there are fresh interesting salads and sandwiches. And it’s a friendly place to wander into alone, which is used to hosting a diverse range of people, some probably just there to attend a business or self-​development course held in the building.

Hammersmith has long been an established centre for the Polish community based in London. This is a really big centre and offers members and non members a huge vareity of facilities ranging from dances, plays, cabarets and polish cinema. There is a library service and a really high quality restaurant as well.

You don’t have to be Polish to visit here as you might think, and the surprising thing about this place for me was the cafÈ and restaurant hidden inside near the back of the building.(The front of the building is a bit decieving) The café has great food with dinners for under five pounds, the pork meatballs in mushroom sauce is nice and are served with salad and potato included in the price.
The sweets are delicious too. The atmosphere is relaxed. Upstairs, there is a bar and the restaurant is a bit more formal with traditional Polish music, it is still a relaxed feel though. The chicken liver pâté garnished with apples was recommended to me as a starter and even though I am not keen on pâté this one I will eat again. Also good is the fried trout with almonds.