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"True aristocracy in this category. This should be the gold standard for fish fries — like the prototype meter at Sèvres."
— Robert Makłowicz
Polish National TV · 2025
History
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Half a century, three generations, one place.
In 1974, Krystyna and Michał Socha opened one of the first fish fries on Poland's Western Baltic Coast. Two years later, a new building rose on Mazowiecka Street in Niechorze — and it still stands today, in the same spot, with the same sign.
Over the years, the family built a kitchen no one else in the area has: Hungarian fish soup Halászlé, Baltic sour rye soup (żurek), fish dumplings with halibut and cod on braised cabbage, fish meatballs, sprats in house-made spices. Recipes you won't find in any other fish fry on the coast.
Today, the third generation runs the kitchen. The rules stay the same: fish prepared fresh, oil changed daily, recipes passed down through generations — no shortcuts, no pretending.
In 2025, we were visited by Robert Makłowicz, Poland's most renowned TV culinary host. He said briefly: "the fish-fry prototype from Sèvres" — meaning the reference standard for every other fish fry on the coast.
Fifty years. Three generations. One phrase we hear most often: "Tastes like it used to."
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