For Brunicki, the restaurant is a labor of love that reflects his attachment to both Israel and his native city. It was conceived, he said, as a way to pay tribute to Poland's destroyed Jewish past, as well as a way to bring Poles, Israelis and other Jews closer together. The logo depicts Warsaw's Royal Palace and Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock and Western Wall, as if they were part of one city. I decided to make a nice place where people can come, enjoy themselves, see views of Israel, listen to Jewish music, and taste both the delicious food that was served in Warsaw before the war as well as Israeli Middle Eastern cuisine. Many people in Warsaw have a lot of feeling for the Jews, who lived in Poland for 1,000 years.
Many people now come here from Jerusalem to seek their own lost roots.
I want to make it easier, to make Warsaw closer to Jerusalem and Jerusalem closer to Warsaw. Brunicki's family history makes him feel this closeness in a particular way. His mother and her small son survived the war on phoney papers. She herself helped Polish Catholics escape from a Nazi camp. Her son survived with the help of Polish priests, although the boy was killed by a drunken driver soon after the war.