Pizzeria Rimini

Who should go here: People who like pizza.

Expat consumer gives it: Four surly Polish employees out of Five.

Pizzeria Rimini is probably best known to this writer as "we should go to that place sometime." It's on the way when we go shopping at Real and this phrase has been uttered a million times in the period we've lived in Warsaw. One day, we made a special trip there; it seems that 'sometime' had arrived.

Sometime began to turn into a lot of time after we ordered. This author had been that morning for a 15 mile run and was kinda hungry as a result. It took a minute to even get to order because it quacked like a sit-down restaurant, had feathers like a sit-down restaurant, but despite the lack of signs declaring it a "samoobsluga" (self-serve; this doesn't mean that you have to grab the food yourself, it means you have to go to the counter to order it and then grab it at the counter when it's ready) place, the surly juggernaut behind the counter eventually brought menus to the table (we were supposed to get them ourselves). His every motion toward the table was a kinetic exclamation of "idiot foreigners."

So I finally ordered, and after an eternity (nearly reaching the point of setting out for the Andes mountains to look for a fallen plane load of athletes to eat), my large 'strong' pizza arrived. I think the term refers to the attributes your wrists must possess to eat a pizza with a knife and fork, which I don't know why I even bother with since everyone knows I'm an American anyway. The 'strong' has tabasco sauce on it and was really pretty good. Their pizza is definitely worth a try...if you've been driving back from Real, declaring that you must go there sometime, make it sometime soon. It's worth it. Just remember to go to the counter to get your own menus and to order. Final note: they don't have a very extensive menu; if you are going out to eat with someone who's finicky and wants a big selection, this isn't the place for them.

You can find Pizzeria Rimini at Wilhelma Konrada Roentgena 1, about a quarter mile west of Aleje KEN on Roentgena. You'll probably have to park a little down the street.