Ognisko Restaurant in City of London, Westminster

The food at the restaurant is good, but the noise level is astronomical. The tables are packed very close together and it is impossible to have a conversation with your dining partners because there is so much loud conversation going on around you. We were really not able to enjoy our meal nor hear each other.

It may be very good away from Christmas but…. a pre-concert meal was just okay. The exterior terrace was noisy at 6pm and the place was a bit shambolic. The food was pleasant but not spectacular. I will give it another try but not in the festive season

Fantastic lunch with really flavoursome food. We’re not regular visitors to London so the choice of restaurant was a bit of a punt. But it was a great choice and although very busy the service was great too.

Food and service was great. True polish food. Cannot fault it

I visited the restaurant with my family to celebrate our memarial date. It was the second visit to me. Both visits were really fulfilling because of not only delicious foods but also very good ambience.

Food excellent. Ambience wonderful except for young children running uncontrolled. Will definitely be back

This is a delightful restaurant in a lovely setting, a formal dining room with pleasant, professional waiting staff. Food is very good - modern Polish food including very good fish dishes. I particularly enjoyed and recommend the large range of vodkas.

The food and service were spectacular!! One dish was better than the next. The bar staff were wonderful as well!

Absolutely loved this restaurant and will be back soon!

fantastic food, great service and good selection of Vodkas. Will try Horseradish again next time eating which will be soon as so many dishes to try.

Another excellent experience at Ognisko. The food, the service, the ambience were all first class.

Try something different - typical polish food. Hearty and delicious. Great service Lovely bar area for pre-dinner cocktails, especially if you like Vodka Has a wonderful traditional elegant feel to the restaurant.

Nice to go back after so many years and see that little has changed. Like a well oiled machine the food is good and the service is strong.

We had a lovely meal before an event at the Royal Albert Hall. We needed to eat quickly and change. The waiting staff were brilliant, attentive courteous and helpful. We've not had much polish food before and it was all delicious, especially the kasha and the mushroom dumplings. Highly recommend this wonderful institution for a memorable meal. Thanks to all.

Im getting 11 play points for every opinion. (free money)

Truly excellent in almost every way (food, wine, location, ambience, atmosphere, decor, and a clear majority of the service, etc) - although my female friends and I did think it a little sexist that it was assumed, without question, that I'd pay the entire bill for all three of us. I happily did so, but the assumption was, in our view, old fashioned and dated. It seemed rather 20th century, to be frank. This is only a minor criticism, though; it still very much deserves 5 stars, although I would politely suggest that assumptions concerning males picking up the entire bill, if females are present, should probably be reassessed.

The best Polish food in London, amazing ambiance and excellent service - an absolute gem!

Wonderful lunch experience. The food was full of flavour, the best herring I've ever had! Can't wait to return. Service was wonderful and we were not time limited either.

I love love love this place. Fabulous food and atmosphere

Oh, wow! Michelin Star well deserved! (Why not more?). Excellent food, service, staff and building. What a gem, was absolutely delighted to have the privilege of being a customer there. Full marks.

Everything was excellent - unreal food, friendly staff and such a beautiful and authentic place! I haven’t felt such a great atmosphere in any other restaurants before and I can definitely say that food-wise - it was one of the best restaurant I’ve ever been to!

Lovely experience from beggining to end. The staff were all very knowledgable and utterly delightful.

Really, really happy with the venue, the service and above all the food and drink. The vodka flavoured with caraway and dill was delicious. The portions are large so unless you are very hungry (and I mean very hungry) I would suggest sharing a starter and having the main course. The four of us shared marinated herrings and a a stuffed perogi with cheese and potato, and then we tucked into what is heaven - chicken livers. Fabulous We also had a bottle of Georgian red wine to wash it down, terrific. No room for dessert. The service is so friendly including the person taking our coats as soon as we got through the door, and then the waitresses who noticed that my wife's purse / bag had slipped off the back of the chair and could have been stepped on, or worse. You have to book, though.

We went for lunch and it was a great experience. The food was amazing - really good quality and priced at an affordable level. The service was excellent and sitting in the conservatory on a cold winters day was magical. Can’t fault it - we will be going back soon!

Wonderful as always and thank you very much to look after us again. 🙏🙏🙏❤️

This really is one of my favourite restaurants in London. A beautiful venue, with spectacularly good food and lovely staff. who could want more?

Excellent food and customer service. Very smart and professional staff.

Simply one of the best restaurants in London.

Arrived at 5:50. Mains arrived at 7:15 for mediocre food. If you like waiting then come here. My tartare was also missing the chips.

Lovely place, amazing food, nice service. Will definitely come again

Arrived at 5:50. Mains arrived at 7:15 for mediocre food. If you like waiting then come here. My tartare was also missing the chips.

Excellent lunch for three. Food was very good, the waiter was on top form and the experience was very enjoyable. The temperature in the room did fluctuate and was occasionally too warm but that’s a small niggle. Will go again.

Very nice place with a big room and a lovely extension with view over the park. The food is good, but nothing to cry for. To say prices are quite fair to be so central in London. Service really slow but kind. In general not that bad.

Fantastic experience - the best hidden gem in Kensington!

Holiday season starting, very crowded and consequently noisy. Not so on previous visits. Food and service excellent, as usual, and prices very reasonable.

This was a very intimate dining experience, the indoor atmosphere was lovely with a candle lit table, high ceilings and low lighting, the welcome into the restaurant was also pleasant. All the food tasted amazing and my Polish boyfriend felt it was very authentic and well-prepared. Would go again but reserved for special occasions!!

I had an excellent experience at Ognisko, dining with a mate! I had no prior experience of Polish cuisine and now my expectations have been set so high following the dinner last night - I can't wait to return to Ognisko with more of my friends and partners!

We had a great lunch at this restaurant. The duck was incredible and also the cocktails, plus some homemade aromatic vodkas 🤩🤩🤩. The staff is very nice and the atmosphere is spot on.

Best polish food in London. Amazing food , service and atmosphere

Great pierogies and cheesecake, lovely atmosphere

Always dependable, always excellent. Wonderful food, wonderful service.

Great atmosphere nice food and very professional !

We visited Ognisko with high hopes to try authentic Polish food. Here's how we rated the dishes: Pelmeni: 8/10 – nicely done Schnitzel: 8/10 – very good, crispy Blini with Salmon: 7/10 – the salmon was fresh and seem homemade but plain in flavor. Tartar: 7.5/10 – super fresh, but we missed some extra kick like onions, capers, or chives... Sea Bass: 7/10 – moist and well-cooked, but the flavors felt flat, a bit "boring". Pavlova: 6/10 – not sweet enough and too sour for our taste. Babka: 6/10 – it seemed underbaked and was a bit plain.Maybe it's a matter of personal taste (for both deserts) Overall, the food was decent, but we felt it needed more flavor. We found ourselves adding salt to most of the dishes (we rarely do that). While it was an okay dinner, it didn’t quite live up to our expectations.

Just the best place in London at the moment. Adore it

A lovely evening out at Ognisko as always. Buzzing tonight.

Lovely venue. Accommodating and thoughtful staff. Excellent food and service. Very friendly and relaxed atmosphere. Would definitely recommend especially before a performance at the Royal Albert Hall.

we had a wonderful evening - as usual - wonderful food - fabulous friendly service - a great night

One of my favourite places to eat and drink in london

Some very interesting dishes, waiters give some superb recommendations, trust them. Great wine list, beautiful room.

Another great visit and meal. Busy. Friendly and good food.

Excellent eastern european cuisine - all dishes we tried were delicious and authentic. Also lovely reasonable wine list. Our server was helpful and gave good information. Beautiful environment and great location if you are going to Royal Albert Hall. Recommend!

Welcoming and comforting ambience, restaurant tucked away off the beautiful Exhibition Road. Impressive range of delicious menu choices, drink list likewise with wide a range of options allowing for an experience in themselves. I thoroughly recommend this place the only danger being you’ll forget to leave and get to your concert!

Taken to lunch and the food was delicious. Great company and throw in the beautiful sunny day. 💛💫💛

Beautiful building, great service: booking a must, Polish cuisine rich of flavors!

Like always great warm cozy atmosphere. Food was delicious specially soups and duck meat. Definitely will come back again

Huge surprise, looking at the old fashioned (but really nice) dining room, we expected stale representations of Polish standards, But instead we found simply great food. Herring, Pierogi (we tried a few types) were superb, mains (lamb shank, and whole duck for 4 ) great. Cocktails were good. I liked the beetroot martini - but eliminated the apple juice on a second order. House wine was a decent value.

Tremendous place. Horseradish vodka, eel, rabbit, cherry dumplings. Veggie mate had fried dumplings and winter mushroom pie, with mashed potato piped on top. Helpful staff, lovely interior, place was busy and bustling on a Thursday night. Highly recommended.

Hearty food, perfect dinner menu for autumn and winter. Service was very attentive.

Top polish food, really proud yo take my friends there each time

excellent restaurant - will go again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beautiful restaurant with a warm and inviting ambience and delicious food. The dumplings were melt in the mouth and the shared duck dish amazing.

Great evening in beautiful restaurant. Sea bass was heavenly.

Excellent food at a reasonable price. Impeccable service and a quiet refined atmosphere

Maravillosa comida y ambiente. Fuimos con cuatro compañeros de trabajo, el entorno era perfecto para sentirnos especiales y también para tener algunas conversaciones. La comida estaba deliciosa; tenía el entrante de albóndigas y luego bacalao asado para el seguimiento principal de pavlova. Sin duda volvería para una ocasión especial. Magnífico

We all had the set lunch. It was all good and collectively we tried all the dishes. As a late lunch I found my red cabbage tasty but distinctly cool beneath the tasty and hot duck leg. As usual tasty and apparently authentic food.

What a gem! Loved the ambiance and the food. Highly recommend

Love this place , great atmosphere. go every week ,

Beautiful restaurant, in historic building. Food was excellent and lovely atmosphere.

The food is good - fairly hearty Polish food, no micro-veg or fragrant purees, no heavily reduced sauces drizzled around the rims of designer plates. I couldn't call it unexpected or exciting or innovative, just good. The cocktails are more adventurous, and the bar deserves its own review as it's a good cocktail bar in its own right. The stand out characteristic of this place is the old world ambience - real candles not LED ones, good chairs, good tablecloths, a beautiful room. Low volume conversation, low key but effective waiters. Low lighting. Elegance. There's no dress code that I'm aware of, but over most of the room were dressed up, at least to the point of jackets for men and dresses for women. This is not an easy combination to find. There are plenty of grand cafes and high end bistros serving similarly familiar and well cooked fare. They are bustling, noisy, crowded. There are plenty of comfortable, discreet, elegant restaurants with waiters that have time to talk. They tend to have Michelin stars (or dreams of them) and menus to match. There are local restaurants that are oases of good cooking and calm surroundings, but they are not elegant or grand. This restaurant manages elegance without pretension, and the food is pretty good too. London is not short of good food. It is increasingly short of elegance.

Delicious food all: starters, mains and desert mouth watering. Great vibe, beautiful venue, attentive staff. Been a few times and its a wonderful experience each time. Highly recommended 5*

Delicious, truly Polish meals. A must-see for every Pole and lover of good food. Very nice, elegant room and very nice service. Very clean and fragrant. Greetings to Mrs. Stasia. Next time I will come with my family. I love this place.

We had a lovely lunch - tasty food, good atmosphere and friendly staff!

It was our first time in a Polish/Latvian restaurant, and in this restaurant, of course. The service was incredibly excellent and friendly, the food was amazing and sophisticated (we are French, therefore it is hard to impress us food-wise). The decoration looked festive, almost like a wedding reception and yet, it was not noisy. It really felt like a higher-end dining experience... until the check came in, which pleasantly surprised us by its affordability - we were expecting to pay a lot more for this exceptional evening. This restaurant gave us a refreshingly excellent dining experience for the London scene. We wholeheartedly recommend it.

It was our first time in a Polish/Latvian restaurant, and in this restaurant, of course. The service was incredibly excellent and friendly, the food was amazing and sophisticated (we are French, therefore it is hard to impress us food-wise). The decoration looked festive, almost like a wedding reception and yet, it was not noisy. It really felt like a higher-end dining experience... until the check came in, which pleasantly surprised us by its affordability - we were expecting to pay a lot more for this exceptional evening. This restaurant gave us a refreshingly excellent dining experience for the London scene. We wholeheartedly recommend it.

Ognisko is amazing! Couldn’t recommended it highly enough!

PLEASE do yourself a favour and never eat here or at their club. I know the owners of the cleaning company that services them and they are constantly laughing at their customers because they have rats in the kitchens, the conditions of the places are so unhygienic and they find it so funny to be doing that to you. They’re literally laughing at you behind your back while they take your money, they told me and my partner never to go to their restaurant or club. AVOID.

Another wonderful evening at this fabulous restaurant. Excellent room, beautiful lighting, outstanding food, very sensible prices ( for these crazy days ) and, as ever, slightly different. It may be against the trend, but thank goodness !!!

Beautiful interiors, delicious food and friendly service, we recommend it

Delicious lunch, we really enjoyed the ambience of the indoor space. The beetroot salad is excellent!

We ramdomly found thid restaurant after visiting V&A museum. We were lucky to get a table as walked in. Food is delicious with very reasonable price. Defo will go back and recommend my friends. Best beef tartare I've ever had.

Fantastic and atmospheric place . Delicious food and wonderful service . Highly recommend

Delicious food, wonderful atmosphere! Loved the entire experience

Lovely venue, efficient and professional staff and tasty and beautifully-presented food and drinks. A wonderful dining experience!

Another of my favourite London haunts, this place is very chic yet some how manages to remain both affordable and glamorous. Situated over the road from several of the most important museums in the whorl, and just along the street from The Royal Albert Hall, this is a very rare find. Its the sort of place that people don't want to shout about because they need to know they will still be able to get a table... The food, the service and the bar facilities are all wonderful. Bring your friends! Chin chin Phil

As always a lovely evening at Ognisko last night. I particularly liked the ambience on a dark night

Amazing place with great service

Delicious Blinis, Kopytka and Pierogi.

Great Polish food: barszcz (beetroot soup), pierogi (dumplings), herring. Beautiful decor and welcoming atmosphere

Sensational restaurant with fascinating history. Delicious, authentic Polish cuisine, great service and atmosphere.

Good food served in a historically rich premises, maybe servers can try and be a bit sweeter and not roll eyes towards guests

Lovely place. Keep coming back! Real table linen in a historic building, good food and service.

First visit to this venue for a number of years and we were very gratified to find it was as good as we remember it - if not better. staff were very attentive and helpful. Food was varied with a number of new (to us) items on the menu - the chicken livers were particularly good. We'll be back!

Best barszcz I’ve ever had. All courses were absolutely delicious and the portion sizes are much bigger than I expected. Great atmosphere, location and service

Good quality, authentic Polish food. Will return again.

nice food, very good chose of vodkas and on site made liker, nice waiters

The restaurant is beautiful Close to museums A varied menu full of delicious dishes

Delicious food, very elegant restaurant with a great atmosphere, professional service.

Tuvimos una encantadora cena de negocios en Ognisko en octubre de 2024. No solo fueron capaces de acomodar a nuestro gran grupo todos juntos, también fueron flexibles con la gente pedir bebidas que no en nuestro menú preestablecido. El servicio de cena se ejecutó a tiempo y las porciones no te dejarán con hambre. Lo recomendaría a cualquiera que visite Londres!

We are regulars here and love it. Everything is five star and the full restaurant is an indication.

Lovely, high end traditional Polish food restaurant. The only thing I would say is we were not aware we were ordering starters not mains which caused a bit of confusion for everyone but the staff and manager were lovely. Food was delicious and ambience was great for Friday evening.