5 Polish Restaurants to Discover in Ealing: Pierogi, Schnitzel & Homestyle Favourites

There's considerably more to Polish food than pierogi. Across Ealing you'll find sour rye soup, stuffed cabbage, pork schnitzel, potato pancakes, bigos and pork knuckle — alongside dumplings filled with everything from sauerkraut and mushrooms to sweet cottage cheese. Here are five places that give us different ways to explore it.

Polka Kitchen — Dickens Yard
This family-owned restaurant is our established Ealing anchor, having evolved from the local restaurant previously known as Sowa into Polka Kitchen. Its Dickens Yard location makes it an accessible starting point for exploring Polish cooking, from dumplings and substantial meat dishes to the comforting flavours of cabbage and potatoes. It's the most visible restaurant in our selection, but also an important part of Ealing's established Polish food story.

Miod Malina — Acton
Miod Malina has developed an exceptional local following on Horn Lane, and its menu provides a wonderful introduction to Polish comfort food. Try żurek — sour rye soup with egg and sausage — followed by pork schnitzel or crispy potato pancakes with beef stew or forest mushroom sauce. For another regional speciality, look for beef roulade with Silesian dumplings and red cabbage, then finish with homemade apple pie or Polish cheesecake.

Lubczyk Polish Bistro — Ealing
Lubczyk promises Polish food and a homely atmosphere, and the menu delivers exactly that. Traditional kotlet schabowy pairs a breaded pork cutlet with potatoes and cucumber salad, while potato pancakes provide another familiar favourite. Sunday expands the choice with gołąbki — cabbage stuffed with beef and pork — and baked pork knuckle with sauerkraut. A small Windsor Road bistro that's easy to overlook but well suited to our discovery list.

Piwnica na Piętrze — Greenford
Piwnica takes Polish classics into a slightly more polished restaurant setting. Its substantial menu travels from żurek and oscypek mountain cheese to stuffed cabbage, bigos, pork schnitzel and several varieties of pierogi. The particularly interesting reason to visit may be Sunday, when a hot buffet of homestyle Polish dishes runs during the afternoon — a useful opportunity for newcomers to discover several traditional flavours around one table.

I Love Pierogi — Northolt
The name gives away the speciality, but the variety is the real story. Pierogi fillings include pork and onion, sauerkraut and mushroom, spinach and feta, and potato with cottage cheese and onion, plus a rustic buckwheat, bacon and cottage-cheese combination. Sweet cottage-cheese pierogi demonstrate that dumplings can head towards dessert too, while pork schnitzel and pork knuckle provide substantial alternatives if you're still hungry.

These aren't presented as the five definitive “best” Polish restaurants in Ealing. They're five places to discover, chosen because together they give us a much richer introduction to Polish cooking.

Come for the pierogi, perhaps — but don't overlook the żurek, gołąbki, bigos, potato pancakes, pork knuckle and schabowy.

That's what Ealing Spotlight is here to uncover: more of the food, businesses and neighbourhood stories already sitting on our doorstep.

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