Living in Greenpoint, we are lucky to have one of the largest collections of Polish restaurants serving traditionally meat-centric goodness this side of Warsaw. And this is the season for it. Gray, fog-dampened, winter stretches where day and night are hard to tell from one another lend themselves to comfort food.

Grab your sweatpants and your inner fat kid, and read on for what we think are some of the best places in the neighborhood…

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  1. Northside Bakery: best chicken cutlet.

    Lomzynianka: I’m Polish, and everyone hates me when I call the place overhyped and bland — worst stuffed cabbage.

    Notably absent from this list: Christina’s, which has the best breakfast.

    Best “Polish” food outside Greenpoint: Veselka, the only place that makes stuffed cabbage as delicious as my grandma’s. I totally know the secret ingredient.

    1. Right on. Yes blintzes for breakfast at Christina’s rule! I love Lomzynianka for the decor, the soup and the BYOB! Northside also rules – great pierogis and it’s so damn cheap! This round-up rules!

      1. That’s why I put “Polish” in quotes. The restaurant also serves dishes considered more Polish than anything else, including pierogi and bigos. The one dish I can think of that Vesleka does that’s 100% Ukraine is kutya.

        1. And they stopped selling kutia, much to my sadness. Now I have to make it —— and it’s a job. (But mine – my mother’s recipe – is better anyway.) 🙂

  2. Krolewskie Jadlo is amazing, my favorite Polish restaurant in Greenpoint. I’ve never had anything bad there.

  4. Relax Restaurant on Newel @ Nassau is an unfortunate omission here. Their Bigos, Pierogis, Soups and meatloaf are top notch. Not much on ambiance, but every time I go, I’m the only non-Polish person there out of many, so that must count for something.

      1. I’m sure if you go to any of these places on the wrong night you could potentially get food poisoning. Plus, in most cases, when people think they have food poisoning it’s something else entirely different. I’ve been to Relax on many occasions and never had any problems besides overeating.

        1. Why would the wrong night give you food poisoning? What does that mean? I need to know when the wrong night is! And if it isn’t food poisoning – what is it???

          1. My point being that any time you eat out, there is a chance you’ll get food poisoning. But this chance is usually so small that to not go to a restaurant because you heard an anecdote about someone contracting foodborne illness this one time a decade ago is about as smart as refusing to get on an airplane because a particular airline once crashed a plane. I’ve seen so many irrelevant reviews on Yelp! documenting one person’s bout with “food poisoning” when all I really want to know is how the food tasted going down (and perhaps how it was coming back up). Thanks, but I’ll leave the rest up to the health department.

          2. plane crash = great metaphor! some place i have gotten consistently sick from and think it isn’t bacteria but rather an issue with the fry oil – since i only eat deep fried food i have been able to develop a good sense of this… i will definitely try relax either way!

  6. Wow. Being from rural Vermont, I would have never thought you could come up with a list of just Polish restaurants. The bakery looks fantastic, though!

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