Food cooked very rare

This means "milk bar" but it actually sells cheap meals of all kinds. The most popular dishes are probably pierogi and naleśniki, especially among the students who frequent the bars.

Soup. It can be clear or creamy and there are many varieties, many of which contain pickled beetroot and kvass (liquid obtained from fermented beetroot) and flavoured with garlic and lemon. It may be served with potatoes or beans or with uszka or kołduny. A white version popular in Galicia is made with smoked-bacon stock, white sausage, and thickened with sour cream.

Beetroot soup made from young beets, grated and finely chopped beet leaves, soured cream (US: cultured sour cream) and hard boiled egg.

Beetroot soup

Beetroot soup served with a pastry roll stuffed with minced (US: ground) meat or mushrooms.

Beetroot soup served with a savoury biscuit (US: cracker) cut into a stick shape.

Beetroot soup served with a savoury pastry.

A clear beetroot soup with tiny, triangular, ravioli-like pastas stuffed with a mushroom filling, traditionally eaten on Christmas Eve.

Beetroot soup made with vegetable stock with no meat. It is served during Lent.