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| - This is not my favorite Polish restaurant on Roncesvalles, but it's not bad.
I walked by one day and saw someone sitting on the patio out front drinking a Polish beer called Tatra. Almost no one in North American will have heard of it, but I promise you it's to die for. I originally tried it when I was living in England, and also in Poland. It became one of my favorite beers which, upon returning to Canada I sadly realized I couldn't find anywhere. I actually stopped to talk to the guy and rambled something like "Tatra is the best!" and he looked at me as if I had lost my mind. Polish people take good beer for granted.
Since then, I have been into Lala Bistro several times, each time asking the server 'Where do you get the Tatra? I've never seen it in an LCBO." Unfortunately they weren't able to pin point a location, but the good old LCBO website came through in the pinch. Bloor & Runnymede - Hurray!
But about the restaurant itself, other than having amazing beers, it has a cozy and clean atmosphere. Their entrees are a bit pricier than other places on Roncesvalles, but are well prepared. I have had the schnitzel on several occasions, and salmon once. Salmon was obviously from frozen, and lacking in taste as frozen fish tends to do. But the schnitzel is absolutely top notch.
I've also had breakfast there several times, which is amazingly cheap. You can go to Sunrise Grill up the street, and pay $9 for an omelette, which is admittedly huge, but here you can get a perfectly good omelette for less than $6. Another nice point about this restaurant is that they will customize things for you. Their menu says plain omelette, but one day it came with all these sliced up bell peppers, mushrooms, and cheese in it.
Sweet! Now I ask for that every time. I'm sure you could probably ask them to put whatever you want in the omelette, and they would hook you up. Plus they have espresso, which scores them some additional points.
They're very tolerant of you hanging out for hours using their free, and speedy WI-FI. It is the best place I've found for Wi-FI on Roncesvalles. All the other coffee places are either jam packed, or don't have sufficient tables. For example, I officially hate Tinto Coffee House. They are always closed, or over-crowded.
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