Are there any Polish restaurants in Liverpool (yet)?
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Are there any Polish restaurants in Liverpool (yet)?
I can see t happening in the future. There shops are popping up quite rapidly.
Multi culture, wide variety, what makes Liverpool great i say :)
What would a Polish restaurant sell I wonder?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jericho
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Originally Posted by Shapers
Polish food:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by A. D. Williams
As ScouserDave, fine upstanding fellow, would say - WOOSH!Quote:
Originally Posted by john
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Originally Posted by A. D. Williams
Or as a critic would say 'cue me when to laugh'
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Originally Posted by A. D. Williams
Ask a stupid question get the obvious reply WOOSH :handclap:
Indeed, young sausage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shapers
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Fair enough old Queen :)Quote:
Originally Posted by A. D. Williams
Happens everytime discussions get hijacked
Back to the thread, just had a quick goolge no polish yet, its a matter of time along with polish bars.
Shops are opening up everywhere shops are not being opened just by poles, but by english and asian businesspeople seeing a gap in the market.
Clever business enterprising people they are. Embrace, make friends and get rich whilst doing it. Seems sensible to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by john
I have tried a Polish lager, the name i forget, which a old colleague (yep she was Polish) bought me a can of to settle which beer was nicer. Don't think it beats Red Stripe or Fosters but a bit better than Carling was my final verdict.
I could see a Polish restaurant opening very soon. Maybe in Hardman Street or Smithdown Road.
You are possibly right Hardman Street or Bold Street, there once a Russian restaurant in Bold Street did not last long.
There is Mexican, Greek, Indian, Chinese, Bangladeshi restaurants. even a Japanese one has opened up. Polish would definatley succeed amongst there community. I have tried a Polish Dish and was'nt to my fancy. Strictly steak and chips neanderthal i am lol.
Less of the old if you don't mind!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shapers
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Originally Posted by A. D. Williams
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Isn't there a Russian restaurant in York st ??Quote:
Originally Posted by john
the only one outside of London as far as I know.
There is, the St Petersburg. Been there about 10 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by lindylou
http://www.restaurant-guide.com/st-p...restaurant.htmQuote:
Originally Posted by SteH
There's a Kurdish restaurant jsut opened in the Paramount building near to the bus station off London Road. Going to try it in the next few weeks, I shoudl imagine it'll be a bit like Turkish Scran which is really good....how good well check these videos out...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3nlG-POTuM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fu51Oxf7ec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUMUI3jZerE
Cookery Videos :handclap:
Cookery programmes are everywhere now why not Yo?
Just thought I'd post this...
It's the Pizza Hut in Krakow, Poland.http://web.onetel.net.uk/~howardpate...s/Krakow05.jpg
They do a luvely wild forest mushrooms pizza. :Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:
(That's Mrs Howie on the doorstep).
In the Guardian Magazine today really good article on people behind the takeaways providing food from around the world in the UK.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/
Two stories are Ho Lee who owns the Saigon in Berry Street serving Vietnamese food 5.30 - 11.00 and then Chinese food after midnight and Sergi Kotcherine who owns St Petersburg, 7a York Street.
" There is a nightclub called Liverpool in St Petersburg, so why not open a Russian place in Liverpool?"
Another quote from Sergi
" Liverpool is like a phoneix rising from the dust, its growing like a baby. Its fantastic."
The Ho Lee part was quite depressing. I felt really sorry for this person.Quote:
Originally Posted by john
"We get two types of customer. From 5.30pm to 11pm, educated people eat Vietnamese food and appreciate it. After midnight it's back to Chinese again. Later on, people - even students - make racist comments. It happens at least once a month. We just have to bite our lips. Even now we are struggling, but because Liverpool is capital of culture in 2008 we are hopeful it will change. If it doesn't work out, I'm thinking about going back to Vietnam. More than half my life has been here, but I still feel something is missing.
Asian culture is really close-knit, and my parents are old. I miss them. We have three children. My two young kids love Vietnam. The education here is much better - we sent them to a private school - but they have to stay locked up in the house after school because it's not safe. In Vietnam they could have a life outside."
Sorry forgot to add a [source]
Hopefully he will find success whatever he chooses. Just shows what petty lowlifes there is out there.Quote:
Originally Posted by scouserdave
I agree with you on this one SD it was depressing to read, in fact the stories behind most of the people were really interesting coming from Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Poland.
It was intresting that Ho Lee was thinking of opening a bar selling English pub food in Vietnam ( god help them)
Another interesting story was Arthur Baker who owns Harlem, he was a top DJ/Producer did New Order (Blue Monday)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/st...051154,00.html
http://www.beathut.com/magazine/march06/article.htm
Speaking to an old Polish man in his 80s today, he moved here after the war and married a English lady. He was very intresting person indeed and well spoken.
Leaflet campaign to bring out Polish-speaking voters
Apr 10 2007
by Paula Owens, Liverpool Daily Post
POLITICAL campaign leaflets in Liverpool will be sent out in Polish as well as in English ahead of the May elections as parties seek to tap into the city’s booming Polish population.
Steve Radford, leader of the minority Liberal group in Liverpool Town Hall, came up with the idea after visiting Polish constituents who were unaware they could register to vote.
He said providing Polish residents with information about the May 3 election will encourage them to vote and give them a greater sense of community involvement.
Cllr Radford, who represents Tuebrook, also hopes the Polish vote will help stop the assault of the far-right BNP, which has nine candidates in Liverpool.
He has prepared the leaflets with the help of some Polish priests and is to start delivering them this week.
Story continues...
"help stop the assault of the far-right BNP" LOL! Great piece of objective journalism.Quote:
Originally Posted by Howie
Regarding the Poles (who I think are fantastic hard workers and are an asset to our country), the journalist obviously has no knowledge of The League of Polish Families. The irony:unibrow:
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Originally Posted by scouserdave
This Cllr Radford is an imbecile.To go on record as wanting to make an all out assault on the Liverpool BNP with the help of non Britons is laughable.
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Think the Liberals may pick up a few votes in Kenny - not cos they're gonna put leaflets in the new Polish stores, but rather as they are opposing the mass demolition of the area.
I wonder how many Poles have bothered to register to vote? My guess is this is more about attacking the BNP than anything else and using the hype around new (maybe temporary) Liverpudlians as a vehicle for this.
That's politics!
Everyone should be encouraged to vote
The BNP have certainly used the influx of Polish and Eastern European immigrants as an election issue in particular areas in the past.
Voting is compulsory in a number of countries, including Australia, Belgium and Greece. There is theoretically a fine of £1,000 in the UK for refusing to register but I've never heard of it being enforced. I can only see number of voters increasing if they can bring in text voting or online voting.Quote:
Originally Posted by john
Excerpt from 'Local Democracy after Lyons' by Dr Stuart Wilks-Heeg, Lecturer in Social Policy, The University of Liverpool.
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About a third of the electorate will typically vote in British local elections, by far the lowest level in Western Europe. In many ways, it is remarkable that local elections happen at all, given the perilous state of local political parties. In most districts, the local electoral process depends upon a few party activists, operating with extraordinarily limited resources. In some parts of the country, local parties have effectively died. With a dozen or more local activists, the British National Party has found it surprisingly easy to challenge the ascendancy of Labour in traditional ‘strongholds’ such as Burnley and Barking.
Few would dispute that elections are the foundation of local democracy. Yet, with the exception of recent experiments with postal voting, there has been remarkably little done to stem, let alone reverse, the decay of local representative democracy. Instead, the principal response has been to increase the range of ways in which people can express their views about local services. The assumption, presumably, is that the two-thirds of citizens that are not inclined to vote will instead be motivated by the prospect of attending an area committee meeting or responding to a council consultation exercise. Across the country, a thousand flowers have bloomed as local authorities have searched for innovative ways to ‘engage’ local people. Residents of Lancashire may opt to be consulted on key issues via SMS, while Bristol City Council enables local residents to create and sign ‘e-petitions’ on its Website.
In contrast to the pitiful resources available to local party activists, local authorities spend significant sums of money on developing new forms of engagement with the public. Yet, there is little evidence that such mechanisms reach beyond those who already exhibit a relatively high level of participation in local affairs. Evidence from two towns in Northern England suggests that members of local citizens panels are three times more likely to have voted in local elections and five times more likely to be members of political parties than the average local resident. Extra forms of participation do not mean more participants, but rather enhance the capacity of those already participating to have their voice heard in additional ways.
LIVERPOOL LIBERALS PRINT LOCAL ELECTION LEAFLETS IN POLISH
10.04.07
First, it was drivers in Cheshire who had to contend with road signs on their country lanes translated into Polish.
Then, anglers at a Welsh beauty spot were baffled by notices in the Eastern European language warning them of huge fines for illegal fishing.
Now, in a sign of the times, a political party in Liverpool has decided to translate all its leaflets into Polish to try and win votes from the city's booming immigrant community ahead of next month's local elections.
MORE...
Most of the Welsh can't understand notices in their own language:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Howie
The Polish working community contribute to the ecomony are an assett. I am all for them having the right to vote. :PDT11
If I'm not mistaken one of the great things about being part of the EU is that we're entitled to vote in any of the member counties as long as we're resident and on the electoral register.