When the vaunted New York Times came to Warsaw to do a story on the growing trend of old-school zakąska bars - ie watering holes with cheap 4.50zł vodka shots and beer and piles of pork jelly and herring, among other snacks, for 9zł - they headed straight for the experts at Pijalnia Wódki i Piwa, the current kings of the Soviet-era drinking dens that have seen a resurgence lately.
