Slavic Bazaar

Don't be fooled by the "pig in a frying pan" mural on the side of the building: the selection in the meat case here is dwarfed by what you can get at, say, European Deli on Clinton Street. Where Slavic Bazaar excels is in canned and packaged groceries, as well as frozen foods: there's a pan-Central and Eastern European inventory including spice mixes, chocolates, and a wide range of canned, pickled, and otherwise preserved fruits and vegetables on the shelves, plus delicious house-made pierogi, savory pelmeni, and chilled soups in the cooler cases. And if you just can't wait till you get home to sample the goodness, stop off at the attached lunch counter for some of the mouth-watering pierogi (cooked in the Ukrainian style, smaller and denser than their Polish cousins).

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Address

1550 William St.

Getting there

Metro Bus 1 or 19

Hours

Mon-Fri 9AM-7PM, Sat 9AM-6PM, Sun 11AM-3PM