Kulisse

Winter sketching often means bar or café sketching, either with a cup of coffee to warm up or with a beer to let the lines flow more loosely.
One of the local places i like is Kulisse; it has a dimly lit interior, a lot of dark wood paneling and theatre themed decoration. Also very tasty Flammekuchen.

Warszawa

Some days spent in Warsaw, drawing socialist monuments, restaurant interiors and people.

Apparently, a true Warsaw experience includes the visit to a milkbar,  an eastern european version of a self service restaurant. You pay for your meal at one counter and pick it up at a second one, but only after the cashier has screamed "Frytki! Nalesniki!" or whatever else you ordered. Everything´s greasy, good and cheap.

The Pałac Kultury i Nauki, the Palace of Culture and Science, still Polands tallest building, a a strange soviet landmark.

Dining on chinese food on Hoza Street. Zuzanna is a waitress who works in the restaurant and when she noticed i was drawing she asked me to draw in the restaurants guestbook. While drawing some more, we kept on talking.The other guests left, the kitchen closed, and i made a drawing of Zuzanna looking like a vampire. After many cups of green tea, we left and thought that this was the best way for the holiday to end. dziękuję Dżonka!

Przekąski Zakąski

 

 

Bar in Warsaw, virtually no seats, just a big self-service counter where grumpy waiters serve beer and plates of potatoes and pickled herring for a very reasonable price.

Schröders

Watching pretty much everything except the soccer match Eintracht Frankfurt vs. Mainz 05 that was the purpose of this visit to a local pub. As the match ended in a goalless draw I didn´t miss much. Elk´s looking rather bored too.