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Kotlet schabowy smażony na smalcu z mangalicy

  • TechniqueLard-fried

Kotlet schabowy, the Polish breaded pork cutlet, fried in lard from mangalica pigs. The family-lunch classic of every Polish home, and our order.

Also on our table

  • We'd open with the żur, the soured rye soup

Stary Dom

Polish · classic restaurant since the 1950s · Mokotów (Puławska), Warsaw

Puławska 104/106, 02-620 Warszawa

A Mokotów restaurant whose story goes back to the 1950s, when jockeys from the Służewiec racecourse met here. Head chef Łukasz Federowicz cooks from proven recipes and the grandmothers' ones.

The proof, in the house's own words

Why the schabowy

Strong evidence
  • Technique

    Fried in mangalica lard, as it once was.

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  • Tradition

    The grandmothers' recipes, in a house with seventy years behind it.

    “przepisy naszych babć”

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  • Sourcing

    The fat comes from a named breed, the curly mangalica.

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We'd add

Our runner-up

Żur na domowym zakwasie

Żur, soured rye soup, on the house's own sourdough starter, with porcini, egg and white sausage from Biebrza. To open the meal.

  • Its own starter
  • Biebrza sausage

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