Stash Café offers authentic Polish cuisine in a cozy, warmly lit space with charming decor and live piano, making every meal a delightful escape.
"Stash Café has been serving homey, hearty Polish fare for decades now, with a warm, cozy ambience animated with live piano playing and pink-hued lighting that’s unique in the neighbourhood. You can’t go wrong with Stash’s pierogi (stuffed with beef, cheese and potato, or cabbage and mushroom), cabbage rolls, or kielbasa. Queer Eye’s Antoni Porowski, once a server at the restaurant, agrees." - Eater Staff
"If you grow tired of tasting your way around menus of typical Québecois dishes, Stash Café is an appealing alternative in Old Montréal. This budget-friendly Polish restaurant has the feel of an inviting tavern, with seating in old church pews. The menu consists of Polish favorites: perfectly prepared pierogis, kielbasa, and hearty borscht. If you are in Montréal on a gray winter day, it's a menu that will warm you up before you bundle up again to continue your sightseeing."
"This is the case for Saint-Paul Street’s Polish eatery Stash Café, which is meant to celebrate its 50th anniversary this year. Following Premier Francois Legault’s October 26 announcement that dining rooms would remain closed for an additional 28 days — now more like an extra 120 and counting — owner Anita Karski decided to pull the plug on her restaurant’s short-lived takeout operation. “Though we had many regular customers, friends, and family come to support us, it simply wasn’t enough to break even. Polish food is very labour-intensive and, in my opinion, does not travel well,” Karski says. Put simply, going completely dark was a way of managing the “financial hemorrhage,” she says." - Valerie Silva
"The stone walls and wooden fixtures help Stash to blend in with the Old Montreal tourist traps but with one difference: Stash is worth your time. Tuck into hearty Polish plates including pierogies, kielbasa and stuffed cabbage rolls, with plenty of vodka to help for a tipsy return to the office." - Tim Forster, Mallory Frayn, Ashley Joseph
"Stash Café, a ten-minute walk south. You’ll want to Instagram the interiors (think beams, brick, and church pews functioning as seats), but you’ll no doubt put your phone away when the food—traditional Polish—comes out."
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