At Criss Studio, Mateusz A. Żurek and Jahmarley Grant are creating a Polish-Jamaican cuisine that did not exist as a ready-made tradition — a new culinary language built from memory, history, respect, research and taste.

At Criss Studio, we often begin with something familiar — then take it apart, question it, and build it again in our own language. The Bully Beef Sandwich is one of those dishes. In Jamaica, bully beef — canned corned beef — is more than a product. It belongs to everyday cooking, quick meals, family kitchens, late-night hunger, childhood memories and moments when food needs to be simple, generous and immediate. It is not luxurious in the classical sense. But it carries someth

Żurek is one of Poland’s most iconic soups. It is also Mateusz’s last name. At Criss Studio, this became the beginning of a personal signature dish — reimagined with fermented rye, coconut milk, Scotch Bonnet, allspice, smoked butter, and Jamaican coco-bread.