🌱 from our pre-corona travels 🌱 Lokal Vegan Bistro came highly recommended as a place
to try out Polish vegan food and is one of the only vegan restaurants Warsaw that serves schabowy. We made the mistake of going there when we were super hungry, and because they told us that the schabowy would take 30 minutes we decided to go for something not so Polish - a burger and tagliatelle. Luckily they were both dope. The tagliatelle was so creamy and meaty - in fact, it was the most creamy, meaty thing I've tasted since I had cream and meat. The bits of 'meat' (it was made of tempeh) were so meat-like that they were too much by themselves for me, but worked so well with the mix of creamy pasta and rocket. I loved it. The burger was also really good, kind of spicy with a good texture. The taste was unlike anything we'd ever had (in a good way) and it came with a great tahini mint sauce. Whilst it wasn't as good as the Krowarzywa burger (how could it be, they won an award), it was still a really decent burger and I recommend it. The tagliatelle and the burger came really quickly (less than 10 minutes) and it was a self-service place. The tagliatelle was 24 PLN, the burger was 18 PLN and I had a great watermelon-lemonade (5 PLN). They also have free water.
➡️ Here are some things that we are defo gonna write to (+poke) them about: do they have any organic plant-based meals? We think there would be a market niche for that... like basically anywhere (the legal differentiation of "non-organic" and "organic" produce is basically an euphemism for "poisonous" and "a bit less poisonous"... which is an outrage! All fruit & veg (+any plant-based food) should be organic, everywhere, not just the privilege of wealthy citizens who can afford to buy the more expensive stuff). Also: were the agricultural workers that produced the plants paid well, in a fair trade fashion (and are they employed as wage labourers)? Is the restaurant a democratic workplace (a worker coop)? If you liked my review, you can follow me on @veganvstravel on Instagram or Facebook. I wrote a whole blogpost about vegan restaurants and eating out in Warsaw here ➡️
https://www.veganvstravel.com/2018/07/your-guide-to-vegan-warsaw-where-to-eat.html 🌱 Go vegan - for the animals & for the 🌎✌🏻
