Category Archives: Polish Restaurant

Kino Klub is back after the summer break! 

We’re opening the new season with one of the best Polish films of the last decade – Wajda’s ‘KATYN’.

Were: Ognisko Restaurant
When: Tuesday, 15th September

What time: 7.00pm

Tickets: Available online and on the door.

Starring: Maja Ostaszewska, Danuta Stenka, Andrzej Chyra, Artur Zmijewski, Jan Englert

Good Value Set Menu available afterwards in our restaurant – you can book a table on 020 7589 0101.

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‘With elegant concision, the film explores both the events leading up to the massacre and its aftermath, following a group of officers and their families through the agonies of war and the miseries of peacetime under Communism, circling back to end with an unsparing reconstruction of some of the killings.

The deaths are terrible and painful to watch, but the film’s dramatic momentum is carried by the sisters, mothers and widows of the dead, whose attempts to hold on to the truth are almost unbearably poignant. Maja Ostaszewska is quietly magnificent as Andrzej’s wife, Anna, who clings to the hope that he has, somehow, survived.’  New York Times Critics’ Pick  (The full review available here. )

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Member Ticket Price: £8 including a glass of wine.

Non-member Ticket Price: £10 including a glass of wine.

Student Ticket Price: £8 including a glass of wine

The Final Night of the BBC PROMS is coming!

For this one night we’ve decided to start our evening service 30min earlier than usual – On Saturday, 12th of September, we’re open from 5.00pm to make sure you can make it for your Final Prom!

If you wish to make a booking please give us a call on 020 7589 0101 (please mention ‘BBC PROMS’ while making your booking).

See you next week!

21st July, Tuesday, 7.00pm

Come & join us at our next Kino Club Screening. This month we’re showing the Cannes 1981 Golden Palm winner  ‘Man of Iron’ by Andrzej Wajda.

Cast: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania
Director: Andrzej Wajda

‘Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, Wajda’s Man of Iron (1981) documents Polish solidarity during the 1980 workers strike at the Gdansk shipyards. Sequel to Wajda’s critically acclaimed Man of Marble (1977), Man of Iron continues the story of Mateusz Birkut (Jerzy Radziwilowicz) by following the experiences of his son, Maciej Tomczyk, also played by Jerzy Radziwilowicz. A ‘Man of Iron’ is a man forged by experience, making him strong and resilient. Maciej’s dedication to the worker’s movement, illustrated in well-executed flashbacks, reveals qualities of him that were otherwise suppressed. He becomes his father’s son and becomes instrumental in the flourishing of the Polish Solidarity movement. Crossing barriers between a documentary and fictional mode, Wajda’s Man of Iron is an invaluable historical artifact which seeks to express simultaneously the plight of the workers as well as the human condition of the modern man.’ – Martin Scorsese

In 1981 “Człowiek z żelaza” was distinguished with the most important award of the International Film Festival in Cannes – the Golden Palm. The film also won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the same festival. In 1981 “Człowiek z żelaza”  also won the prize of “Solidarność” at the Gdańsk Polish Feature Film Festival. During the Lubuskie Film Summer the film was distinguished with a Silver Grape. In 1982 the film was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

Tickets:

Members – £8 including a glass of wine.

Non-members – £10 including a glass of wine.

Students – £8 including a glass of wine. Book online

Poszukujemy osob na stanowisko:

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Kelner/Kelnerka

Szukamy osoby dynamicznej i komunikatywnej z doświadczeniem w branży restauracyjnej.

Wymagane:

– płynna znajomość języka angielskiego i polskiego,

– zangażowanie i dyspozycyjność.

 Zapraszamy do nadsyłania CV na adres jw@ogniskorestaurant.co.uk lub info@ogniskorestaurant.co.uk or do składania podań w siedzibie restauracji.

16.06.2015, Tuesday, 7.00pm, Ognisko Restaurant & The Kino Klub Screening

Next featured movie for our pop-up cinema is Wajda’s ‘Kanal’ .

‘Kanal is as trilling as it is brutal, and is an uncompromising portrait of the desperation and inhumanity borne by the barbarity of war. It is the second of director Andrzej Wajda’s war trilogy, and is set during the last days of the Warsaw uprising in late 1944’ (Review by Kinema Group)

Kanał earned Wajda the Special Jury Prize at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.

Date: 16 June 2015
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Member Ticket Price: £8 including a glass of wine.
Non-member Ticket Price: £10 including a glass of wine.
Student Ticket Price: £8 including a glass of wine.

You can book your tickets here.

As usual Film Menu will be available afterwards!

See you there!

On behalf of Polish Heart Club we kindly invite you to a literary talk on Monday the 25th  of May.

Tina Santi Flaherty will be giving a talk about her most recent book “What Jackie Taught Us: Lessons from the Remarkable Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.”

More info can be found here . If you wish to attend the talk please book online or call 020 7589 4670.

We are delighted to announce we been awarded the 2015 TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence. This achievement wouldn’t be possible without consistently great reviews from our guests! Many Thanks to all of you!

Tuesday, 19th of May, 7.30pm

‘Masterpiece’ The Sunday Telegraph

‘Remarkable’ The Observer

‘Magnificent’ The Daily Mail

Starring Gerard Depardieu and Andrzej Pszoniak

Directed by Oscar-winning Andrzej Wajda and featuring a powerful performance by Depardieu, this highly-acclaimed film won numerous awards including a BAFTA for ‘Best Foreign Film’. 

Screening kicks off at 7.30pm. Film Menu available afterwards, £18 for 2 courses, including Pot au Feu!

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‘Gérard Depardieu and Wojciech Pszoniak star in Andrzej Wajda’s powerful, intimate depiction of the ideological clash between the earthy, man-of-the-people Georges Danton and icy Jacobin extremist Maximilien Robespierre, both key figures of the French Revolution. By drawing parallels to Polish “Solidarity,” a movement that was being quashed by the government as the film went into production, Wajda drags history into the present. Meticulous and fiery, Danton  has been hailed as one of the greatest films ever made about the Terror.’ New York University

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TICKETS available on the door & online.

CALL 020 7589 4670  to BUY TICKETS or 020 7589 0101 for MORE INFO

We will be showing a special screening of Roman Polanski’s classic psycho horror ‘Repulsion’  starring Catherine Deneuve. Tuesday, 21st April, 7 pm

Set in and around South Kensington it charts the unraveling mind of a beautiful French girl living in London. The extraordinary imagery and dark tension shows Polanski at the height of his powers.

‘It is one of Roman Polanski’s most brilliant films: a deeply disturbing, horribly convincing psychological thriller that is also that rarest of things: a scary movie in which a woman is permitted to do the killing. ‘ The Guardian

‘Fifty years after its original release, Repulsion is still thrilling. Collapsing pleasure and pain, attraction and revulsion, fragility and volatility, it is a thoroughly compelling film about all the contradictions of cinema and its obsession with femininity.’ The Quietus

£10 tickets and £8 concessions

Please book online

or on 020 7589 4670.