stash

[totient]

roozle and I have just returned from a well-balanced trip to Montreal: full of scenic vistas, historic interest, art galleries, fireworks, architecture, festivals, unpaved back roads, and most importantly a tremendous variety of excellent food. The best was Stash: a Polish bistro named for its founder, Stanislaw Pruszynski, and whose placemats advise the diner that "Everything tastes better with wódka, even wódka". We agreed and got shots of Wyborowa which was very tasty.

roozle had the Roast of Wild Boar menu, and I had the Primer menu. The barszcz was thin and delicate, and the salad hearty, which was the reverse of what I expected but quite delicious. roozle's meat and red cabbage worked well together but I thought the bigos and placki complemented each other perfectly and the other tastes from the krokiety and meat and cheese pierogis made for a more interesting meal.

The dessert was the weak point of the tables d'hote; the fruit squares were nice enough but not really very interesting. Perhaps something on the a la carte menu would have been better.

Stash Cafe
200, rue Saint-Paul Ouest
Montréal, QC
+1 514 845 6611
Open daily 1130-2330
Reservations not really as necessary as the web site would have you believe

Comments

[kjc007.livejournal.com]

I whole heartedly second this recommendation. That place was YUMMY!

[(Anonymous)]

"roozle and I have just returned from a well-balanced trip to Montreal"

That's naughty of you as she's married to someone else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[palmwiz.livejournal.com]

Oh look, a troll. You're not very well-informed, are you? Ah well, I imagine you'll figure it out eventually.

[coraline]

*snicker*

[drbitch.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear they're still in business; I think I stumbled on them about twenty years ago during my first ever trip to Montreal, though I believe they hadn't anglicized the name of the place then. They do indeed make good food.

You listing of Polish dishes makes me nostalgic. My only quibble is that pierogi is already plural.

At this point your troll is more amusing than annoying. I guess there was a sale on exclamation points.

[palmwiz.livejournal.com]

pierogi is already plural.

Huh, there was an S on their menu. Maybe pierogi is like fish?

[palmwiz.livejournal.com]

Ah, apparently the S is a Canadianism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirogi#Canada).

[drbitch.livejournal.com]

It's sorta like saying "raviolis." You're unlikely to ever be served only one pierog, so the original singular form isn't well known. I'm not surprised the pluplural form is on their menu.

[istemi.livejournal.com]

What's the singular of "ravioli"? Raviolum?

[drbitch.livejournal.com]

I think ravioli is both singular (or maybe collective for the whole plateful) and plural (sorta like "fish", though "fishes" is correct, if archaic, too; I need a better example). It's not a perfect equivalent for pierogi, since the singular form may never have existed; maybe it would have been "raviolus"?

Language evolves and useage changes, especially for adopted words. Once pierogi becomes an English word, using English rules of pluralization makes sense. It stood out for me here since this was a Polish restaurant and I speak Polish, however poorly. I guess I should be happy that they're not calling them "pierogi's".

[drbitch.livejournal.com]

I just noticed that the on-line dinner menu uses pierogi. I wonder is some other geek complained?

Polish desserts never impressed me much, but the poppyseed cake should be a good bet.

[foms.livejournal.com]

I haven't been to Stash's in years. I seem to have fallen into the Mazurka set. It was more convenient to my neighbourhood.

I meant to stick my nose in and offer advice but too many other things clamoured for my attention. Next time.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

I seem to have fallen into the Mazurka set.

Us too. It's definitely a neighborhood thing; we're up there much more often than we are down by Stash's.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the post! If I'd known you were going I'd have posted our Montréal reports earlier.

[trowa-barton.livejournal.com]

Dude, that place is still there?
I haven't been there since May 2001.
Best periogis from any restaurant.