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Toruń’s Old Town has a unique eating place, located at the market square. Not a fine restaurant, but a rough-looking Bar Miś – a fast food bar à la the Cold War era.
The bar was founded in Torun in 2005 during the 11th edition of the Film Summer festival, inspired by a cult comedy Miś (Teddy Bear) by Stanisław Bareja. Originally intended to be just a festival bar, it became immensely popular and survived until the present day. Today it is visited by practically all kinds of guests: tourists in search of new experience, clerks from the nearby town hall, policemen, artists, businesspeople and worse-off pensioners.
The design of the “Miś” resembles a famous scene from the film, which takes place in a milk bar, typical for Poland of the Cold War era. One of the tables presents an aluminium bowl screwed to the top, with a couple of spoons on a chain; the walls are decorated with authentic propaganda posters, and the display window is occupied by a set of retail scales, also made in the – quite justly – bygone times. On the menu, there are delicacies such as flaczki (meat or pork tripe), grochówka (pea soup), żurek (sour rye soup), bigos (cabbage and meat stew) and fasolka po bretońsku (literally: Breton beans – boiled or stewed beans in tomato sauce). The list of condiments and supplements is impressively ‘diverse’: mustard, horseradish, bread rolls, salad or potatoes. The atmosphere is complemented by wood panelling, mustard pots used as glasses, and a sales clerk wearing a nylon apron. All this, for a purely nominal price.
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