A warmly lit Stary Dzików dining room with guests talking across dark timber tables
Restaurant / Stary Dzików

Dinner, conversation and a real table

Czesław Jabłoński "CEW-POL" is a Stary Dzików restaurant built for an evening that unfolds around people, food and a real table. Dine over contemporary cooking, settle into relaxed conversation, then explore the card lounge, dedicated card rooms and physical poker tables when the night calls for an offline poker evening.

01 / Dining room

A room for the whole evening

The dining room is made for people who want to stay in the conversation, whether they are arriving for dinner or meeting before an offline poker evening. Dark timber, steel, brick, leather and ribbed glass set a grounded Stary Dzików tone without making the room feel formal. It is a place to share a meal, order another round, meet friends and let the evening find its own pace.

01

Arrive

Begin with a table and a proper welcome. A shared meal gives everyone a place to land, catch up and decide whether the night is simply dinner or the beginning of something longer.

02

Settle in

Let food, drinks and conversation take their time. The restaurant works for a planned dinner, an easy mid-evening pause or a meeting point before the lounge and card room become part of the plan.

03

Stay connected

No one needs to rush from one part of the venue to another. The restaurant, bar, card lounge and card rooms can connect naturally while each remains a complete place to spend time.

02 / Kitchen

Food at the centre

The kitchen gives the evening its centre: contemporary Polska dining prepared with the same attention to pace, craft and company as the rest of the venue. Seasonal thinking informs the direction, while the experience stays rooted in the table itself—food to share, time to talk and room for the plans that may follow. Dinner is not a pause before the rest of the night; it is the social foundation for it.

Preparation is visible as care, not performance: the pass, the plate, the heat and the hands that finish each service. It is a practical, attentive rhythm that keeps the focus where it belongs—on guests settling in together.

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Chef's hands finishing a plated contemporary dish at a restaurant pass
At the pass — careful preparation, tactile materials and a meal made to bring people together.
03 / Bar

A place to gather

The bar is a meeting point for a cocktail, coffee, soft drink or a pause between dinner and the next part of the night. Choose what suits your evening and keep the focus on the group in front of you. Service is relaxed, social and designed to make room for conversation rather than hurry it along.

At the counter

Meet over a drink, take a moment at the bar and ease into the room before joining the rest of your group.

At the table

Let a refill, coffee or soft drink stay part of dinner while the conversation remains where it started: around the table.

At your pace

A bar visit can stand alone or sit comfortably within a longer evening, with no single way to settle in.

Bartender pouring a drink while guests talk at an industrial restaurant bar
A drink, a coffee or a soft drink can be a natural pause before a move into the card lounge.
04 / Before the cards

An evening, in four moves

An evening can move at its own pace, from a meal into a more focused shared-table experience. Dinner, lounge time, dedicated card rooms and poker tables each stand on their own, while connecting naturally for guests who want to continue. That is how offline poker evenings fit here: as a face-to-face part of a social night, not a separate world.

01

Dinner

Dinner gives a group a place to arrive, share food and decide how the night will unfold. The dining room keeps the first part of the evening open, generous and centred on conversation.

02

Lounge

The lounge is the softer threshold: settle into relaxed seating, continue the conversation and take in the room before choosing whether to sit down to play.

03

Card Room

The card room brings the group closer to the ritual of physical cards, shared attention and a real room of people. It is a welcoming poker card room with a social, considered tone.

04

Poker Table

At the poker table, the experience is physical and face to face: hands, cards, conversation and everyone around the felt. Explore offline poker Polska and the real-table ritual at Czesław Jabłoński "CEW-POL".

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05 / Card lounge

A lounge, not a rush

The card lounge is where a dinner conversation can stretch out before the group decides whether to move into a dedicated card room. Informal, comfortable and face to face, it is a bridge between the restaurant and the more focused ritual of sitting down at a table.

Sit back

Keep the group together

Relaxed seating gives people room to compare notes on dinner, meet friends arriving later or take a calm pause between parts of the night. Low light, timber and tactile material cues keep the setting warm without asking anyone to hurry on.

Step closer

A gentle threshold

Physical cards and poker tables are nearby, but the lounge keeps the tone social and unforced before anyone sits down to deal a hand. It is a natural place to understand how offline card games can become part of an evening.

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06 / Card room

When you enter the card room

A dedicated card room changes the pace from open dining to shared attention around a real table, while keeping the welcome social and considered. This poker card room is for people who value face-to-face presence, physical cards and the small rituals of joining a table together.

01

Meet before you sit

Use the restaurant and card lounge as places to meet before the group moves through to the room. For first-time visitors, that simple progression keeps arrival relaxed and gives everyone a chance to settle in together.

02

Play face to face

Keep it physical: the experience is about cards in hand, conversation across the felt and the small rituals of sitting down at physical poker tables. Offline poker is built around the people present in the room.

03

Share the room

Attention, courtesy and a relaxed pace make offline poker evenings feel good for everyone at the table. Learn more about the room before your visit through the Card Room page.

07 / Planning

Shape your evening

Choose the route that best suits the people coming to the table, then keep the next step clear and practical.

Dine first

Plan the meal

Start with a dining reservation when food is the centre of the plan. Use the menu to shape the meal before the evening continues into drinks, lounge conversation or another part of the venue.

Cards later

Plan the table

If the group is interested in offline poker, explore the dedicated experience before arrival so the move from lounge to table feels natural. It is a restaurant with poker tables, shaped around real-world social time.

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Come together

Plan the group

For a group gathering, begin with the restaurant setting and use the venue’s group pathway to discuss the shape of the visit across dining, bar, lounge and card-room experiences.

Plan a group visit
08 / Arrival

Find the table

Czesław Jabłoński "CEW-POL" sits in Stary Dzików, with the restaurant as the place to arrive before the rest of the venue opens up around you. Begin with the room, the table and the people you are meeting.

38 Flinders Lane, Stary Dzików VIC 3000
Give the evening room

Arrive unhurried

Build a little time into the arrival: it leaves room for dinner, a drink, lounge conversation and a considered move towards the card room when that suits the group.

Getting here

Parking and transport

Parking and transport information should be checked before the visit, especially when a dinner plan is becoming a longer social night. Find practical visitor information via Contact Us.

Czesław Jabłoński "CEW-POL"

Come for dinner. Stay for the conversation. When the moment is right, meet at a real table.