barbie gee
2013-11-24 22:44:10 UTC
.max and I had a fun dinner at Podhalanka, over in the Polish Triangle, on
Division between Ashland and Milwaukee.
the inside looks like they set it up in 1965 and then didn't change since
then. Clean, and oddly, it was busy with mostly "kids" from the
neighborhood, I'm imaging. We were probably the oldest people in there,
other than the staff.
The food is really simple, no-frills Polish.
Soups are excellent; I had the barley, max had the cabbage/kraut. Big
bowls, not puny cups, and the rye bread and butter was good.
He was thinking of maybe a pork shank, but they didn't have any. I
suspect that with the crowd I saw in there, golonka are not a high volume
item.
I had mixed pierogi; half kraut with mushroom, half meat ones. The
kraut ones were VERY good, nicely seasoned like I remember Grandma might
have made. The meat ones were pretty good, at least better than many I've
had elsewhere, but I still prefer meat ones biased towards a more oniony
flavor. These were just the tiniest bit "livery", making me wonder which
leftover cooked meats they used to make the filling with. They were
dressed with butter sauteed onions and a nice dollop of sour cream.
.max had the Kotlet Schabowy, aka pork cutlet, that's made like a
Weinerschnitzel. He got a side of cold salad; grated pickeled beets w/
horseradish, and a generous helping of cucumber salad, w/ a few tomato
wedges. His potatoes were boiled/mashed, with a mushroom gravy.
The potato pancakes and stuffed cabbage orders we saw walking by also
looked to be very well done, and people were cleaning their plates.
So, solid, basic, rib-sticking Polish food.
Check it out.
1549 W Division St, Chicago 60622
(At N Milwaukee Ave)
Division between Ashland and Milwaukee.
the inside looks like they set it up in 1965 and then didn't change since
then. Clean, and oddly, it was busy with mostly "kids" from the
neighborhood, I'm imaging. We were probably the oldest people in there,
other than the staff.
The food is really simple, no-frills Polish.
Soups are excellent; I had the barley, max had the cabbage/kraut. Big
bowls, not puny cups, and the rye bread and butter was good.
He was thinking of maybe a pork shank, but they didn't have any. I
suspect that with the crowd I saw in there, golonka are not a high volume
item.
I had mixed pierogi; half kraut with mushroom, half meat ones. The
kraut ones were VERY good, nicely seasoned like I remember Grandma might
have made. The meat ones were pretty good, at least better than many I've
had elsewhere, but I still prefer meat ones biased towards a more oniony
flavor. These were just the tiniest bit "livery", making me wonder which
leftover cooked meats they used to make the filling with. They were
dressed with butter sauteed onions and a nice dollop of sour cream.
.max had the Kotlet Schabowy, aka pork cutlet, that's made like a
Weinerschnitzel. He got a side of cold salad; grated pickeled beets w/
horseradish, and a generous helping of cucumber salad, w/ a few tomato
wedges. His potatoes were boiled/mashed, with a mushroom gravy.
The potato pancakes and stuffed cabbage orders we saw walking by also
looked to be very well done, and people were cleaning their plates.
So, solid, basic, rib-sticking Polish food.
Check it out.
1549 W Division St, Chicago 60622
(At N Milwaukee Ave)