The effort of meeting the “Other” is undertaken through all life (e.g. in the case of migration, which is a partial departure from one culture to another). In a situation of migration, an individual confronts the identity coming from the primary culture, shaped in the country of origin, with new forms of behaviour acquired in the current situation. Some of the old patterns, primarily related to the explicit culture (language, ways of spending free time), and partly to the hidden culture (ways of thinking), are changing. Certain contents concerning the hidden dimension (values, attitudes) remain a permanent element of emotional identification. The sense of separateness in an unknown environment, affects the type of meals chosen by migrants. Culinary patterns become an element of the localization process in the progressive cultural unification. This article presents the way in which culinary patterns become “external” elements of contemporary individual, social and collective identities of young Polish migration in Ireland. The table metaphorically becomes an element that helps to find oneself in a foreign reality of the host country.