WE love this picture, showing fervent Polish fans glued to the telly during Euro 2016, where their team did better than us, losing to eventual winners Portugal in a quarter-final penalty shoot-out.
It was taken in Mamuska!, a London-based Polish restaurant, now seeking to expand into four regional cities, including Manchester. A brave move in post-Brexit Britain, but owner Ian Coll, who runs the restaurant with his Polish wife, told Big Hospitality magazine: “We’re looking at cities like Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol and Edinburgh, places with young, trendy, foodie people.”
The restaurant, which serves Polish classics, such as pierogi dumplings and borscht beetroot soup, was originally set up to attract the expats, but Mr Coll said the majority of his customers were not Polish.
Mamuska!, which means“mother in law”, was inspired by the “milk bars” of Poland popular during the Iron Curtain era, which served dairy based dishes when there was a shortage of meat.