Dom

If you are looking for a family place to spend a lovely brunch, Dom is a perfect spot.
Located in a super family friendly area, slightly difficult to find, you may encounter a lovely family serving clients in their back yard. This place was a very pleasant surprise. Seems to be run by the same family that lives upstairs.
Weekend brunch is delicious and family friendly. Expect to share the yard with lots of babies and small kids. You may also find parties of 10 – 25 people being host on the back of the sitting area.
Gazpacho was salty but meat was great. Portions are generous.
If you are English speaker (as we are) you will have this family moment when they print English menus just for you. (Awwwww) made us feel very welcome! Best part… When we asked for the bill and they asked us where we were from, we found out our waitress had excellent Spanish. The service can’t be beat!
We will definitely be back.

It’s ridiculous when kids meal costs like regular adults meal, and it’s even worse when you can’t take it off the bill when the kid just took a bite but didn’t like it at all (pasta with strawberries — too salty and weird)

I went to Dom for lunch later in the summer, and I have to say this place has one of the most interesting outside seating arrangements I’ve seen in the city. It mostly has to do with the trees, which twist out of the deck like giant Bonsai trees, and the fact that you are literally sitting in someone’s backyard. In fact, it was a bit difficult to find Dom, because it looks like a normal house. I was a bit intimidated to approach the place, because I wasn’t sure if I was going to be reprimanded for tresspassing by some old Polish woman brandishing a ladel– it’s really a good thing that guns are illegal in Poland. Generally, if you are up in Zoliborz and you find yourself outside of a normal house while looking for Dom, you are in the right place.
Lunch that day included Thai soup and Asian noodles with duck. There was also bread for the table and Fentimans Lemonade. The soup was the best part of the meal. It has loaded with cilantro, creamy, spicy — I love Thai soup. The stir fry dish was ok, nothing special even though it contained pieces of my favorite poultry. It was also a strange color because both the noodles and the duck were almost a grayish-​brown. While the food tasted ok, it didn’t exactly look apetizing at first. The soup on the other hand was a very pleasing pale yellow color — like the most popular color for Polish hallways.
I only went inside once during the experience, and the thing I noticed about the interior was a wall painting that showed all of the months in the year split into a pie chart. Inside each «slice of pie» was painted all of the fruits and vegetables that are seasonable in Poland in the given month. I found this very interesting, especially because for half of the pie the only produce painted on the chart included onions, potatos and beet root.
The sad thing is that I do not know what is actually regular on Dom’s menu. I think it changes frequently. I should have paid closer attention, but I was distracted by the fact that from my exclusive backyard table under the big twisted Bonsai tree I was able to see feisty red European squirrels. I’ve only ever seen them a couple of times since I’ve been here. Their fat gray American cousins are extremely numerous, and are almost to the point of domestication where the next generation will sit by the dozens in rocking chairs sipping lemonade freshly squeezed by retired, wrinkled old grannies. So, I wasn’t really paying attention to the menu.
All in all the place is quite hip, exclusive, decently priced, and the menu is a mystery. I think it is worth a trip up to Dom just to check out the secret dining garden. Hurry up — Winter is Coming.