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	Polish Cuisine Try it, you will love it! Polish cuisine (kuchnia polska) is a mixture of Slavic and foreign culinary traditions. Born as a mixture of various culinary traditions, both of various regions of Poland and surrounding cultures, it uses a large variety of ingredients. It is rich in meat of all kinds and with spices, as well as in different kinds of noodles and dumplings, the most notable of which are the pierogi. It is related to other Slavic cuisines in usage of kasza and other cereals, but was also under the heavy influence of Turkic, Germanic, Hungarian, Jewish, French or colonial cuisines of the past. Generally speaking, Polish cuisine is rich and substantial. Poles allow themselves a generous amount of time in order to enjoy their meals. A typical lunch is usually composed of at least three courses, starting with a soup, such as barszcz (beet) or zurek (sour rye meal mash), followed perhaps in a restaurant by an appetizer of salmon or herring (prepared in either cream, oil or vinegar). Other popular appetizers are various meats, vegetables or fish in aspic. For the main course you may want to try the national dish, bigos (sauerkraut with pieces of meat and sausage) or kotlet schabowy (breaded pork cutlet). Finish on a sweet note with ice cream or, more likely if you are fortunate enough to be dining at someone's home, a piece of makowiec, home-made poppy seed cake, or drozdzówka, a type of yeast cake. Other Polish specialities include chlodnik (a chilled beet or fruit soup for hot days), golonka (pork knuckles cooked with vegetables), kolduny (meat dumplings), zrazy (slices of beef), salceson and flaczki (tripe soup). How to get here: Directions: From Central and Northern NJ, NY and CT: If using Highway 295: Take Exit 28 for Berlin, on the ramp make a left onto Black Horse Pike. Go straight for about 2 miles. We will be on your right hand side, on a corner, across the street from "Pioneer" gas station. Plenty of FREE parking in our parking lot behind the store! If using NJ Turnpike: Take Exit 3 South towards Atlantic City. Go straight for about 2 miles. We will be on your right hand side, on a corner, across the street from "Pioneer" gas station. Plenty of FREE parking in our parking lot behind the store! From Philadelphia, PA: Take any bridge in Philadelphia onto Route 42 South. Follow signs for Highway 295 North. Once you are on 295, take exit 28 towards Berlin. Stay right on the ramp. Go straight for about 2 miles. We will be on your right hand side, on a corner, across the street from "Pioneer" gas station. Plenty of FREE parking in our parking lot behind the store! From New Jersey Shore: Take Atlantic Expressway towards Philadelphia. Take Exit for 295 North. Once you are on 295, take exit 28 towards Berlin. Stay right on the ramp. Go straight for about 2 miles. We will be on your right hand side, on a corner, across the street from "Pioneer" gas station. Plenty of FREE parking in our parking lot behind the store! From Delaware, Maryland and Washington DC: After crossing Memorial Bridge into NJ. Take either one: Highway 295 North or NJ Turnpike. If you take Highway 295 North, then take Exit 28 towards Berlin and stay right on the ramp. If you take NJ Turnpike, then take Exit 3 South towards Atlantic City. Then, go straight for about 2 miles. We will be on your right hand side, on a corner, across the street from "Pioneer" gas station. Plenty of FREE parking in our parking lot behind the store!