There's a pubby skew to starters like chicken wings, stuffed mushrooms, chicken tenders and baked clams.

Regional dishes include żurek, siemieniotka (in Silesia), and kołduny - mushrooms or meat stuffed dumplings in the eastern regions.

For openers, try plump mussels in a light cream sauce, mushrooms stuffed with crabmeat or the flavor-packed seafood crepes.

Melba Garniture, chicken, truffles and mushrooms stuffed into tomatoes with velouté sauce.

Another possibility, mushrooms stuffed with shrimp, arrived atop a bland cornstarch-laden sauce that elicited little enthusiasm.

I had prepared mushrooms stuffed with sausage and cream cheese, and they were warming in the oven next to the bread I'd picked up at the bakery.

The mini-appetizers might be a baby artichoke, stuffed mushroom, eggplant in a light tomato sauce or bruschetta.

In the restaurant, if you select deep fried mushrooms in garlic dip, whole Devon plaice stuffed with crabmeat, and dessert, the bill will be around $20.

A surfeit of mushrooms, in fact, for they had begun with the house specialty, mushrooms stuffed with pate, breaded and deep fried.