Lomzynianka Restaurant
Category: Restaurants [Edit]
Neighborhood: Brooklyn/Williamsburg - North Side646 Manhattan Ave
(between Bedford Ave & Norman Ave)
Brooklyn, NY 11222 (718) 389-9439
- Nearest Transit:
Nassau Ave (G)
- Price Range: $
- Accepts Credit Cards: No
- Attire: Casual
- Good for Groups: No
- Good for Kids: Yes
- Take-out: Yes
- Waiter Service: Yes
- Outdoor Seating: No
- Good for: Dinner
- Alcohol: Beer & Wine Only
21 reviews
Neighborhood: Manhattan/Financial District
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14 Reviews for Lomzynianka Restaurant
This is a very cool little hole in the wall. The decor is funky and charming and the food is fantastic and inexpensive. For anyone who's hesitating to try Polish food, I suggest you try this place ASAP. It will make you a believer. I'd say the quality and presentation of the food is a step-up from Christina's diner (just up the avenue), but both places offer home-cooking style cuisine.
I waddled out of Lomzynianka with a full stomach and a smile on my face.
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When I walked into Lomzynianka, I got the strangest feeling, as I felt I was 10 years old, walking into my Grandmother's house for Sunday dinner. Drop ceiling, wall paneling and a bunch of round old Polish ladies cooking in the Kitchen.... does it get any better?
White borscht is a fantastic starter, and I'd advise anyone to order the polish platter.. so you can try everything. If the platter is not your cup of vodka, just order bigos. Bigos is fantastic here. For the unlucky non-poles out there, it's cabbage that has all types of meat cooked into with it. Don't ask what's in it, just eat it.
I'd prefer if they served biala kielbasa, but it gets a pass for being the best in every other way.
Bring some zywiec beer from the corner store and enjoy!
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My wife and I stuffed ourselves silly on good food, all for $12.50 (including tax but excluding tip).
The $7 Polish platter had a big ol' stuffed cabbage, a kielbasa, 3 pierogies (one meat, one cheese, one potato (though I wish they had all been potato)), and a clump each of mashed potatoes and bigos. Like all entrees, it was preceded by a small plate of deliciously pickled vegetables (red cabbage, white cabbage, and carrots).
It's BYOB, and there's a grocery on the corner of Manhattan and Nassau which has several different types of Polish beers available. We bought 2 half-liters and 1 650ml of various Polish beers (that's the equivalent of almost 5 12-oz bottles) for $5. Five dollars! For 5 beers? My math's a little rusty, but I think that's pretty close to $1 per bottle. Wow. (The wine store on Nassau near Manhattan had no Polish wines that I could see, but the selection was decent.)
The decor is horrifically endearing, with decorative lace table cloths protected by plastic sheets, party streamers all over the place, and of course the deer head. Our favorite touch, though, was that the lampshade on our table's lamp still had its original Wal-Mart sticker. Have you seen the Time magazine photo spread "What the World Eats"? (Google it... it's fun.) Eating here feels like you're in the dining room of the Polish family's apartment (photo 8 of 16, let's see if this link works: http://www.time.com/ti...)
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On the first night of Chanukah I decided I should make latkas. I mean, I've been doing it my whole life, but I've never OFFICIALLY made them on my own without the supervision of other Jews.
They were bad.
My non-Jew boyfriend couldn't tell, but honestly, blech.
So on the second night of Chanukah we decided I shouldn't attempt matzoh ball soup or kugel... we should go to Lomzynianka.
Blintzes, fried pierogies, and potato pancakes.
Much better than I could do.
We also had the borscht.
Came to 14 bucks.
Holy cow!...I'm never cooking again.
ps: They close at 9, always.
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Lomzynianka is the only place in America I've been able to order a delicious bowl of zurek (sour rye soup AKA white borsch). Not even LA's two most prominent Polish restaurants (Polka and Warszawa) make this soup.
The zurek here takes me straight back to the week I spent visiting friends in Poland: Its rich stock, profiled in fermented rye and rounded out with buttermilk and assorted bits of meat, hits the palate with a soothing sourness seemingly crafted for the sole purpose of soup alliteration. If you make it to Lomzynianka, do yourself a favor and try this dish!
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I have to add my vote for this wonderful little restaurant. It's cheap and good, not pretentious. BYOB and for a non-alcoholic beverage, try the black currant juice. Very small place, with tables for four or two, squeezed in together. Wacky interior design.
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It just freaking rocks, its so delicious. I'm Polish, I went there with my even more Polish mom, we ate, we cried, we ate some more. Pizy and barscht!
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It's RIDICULOUS that there's no restaurant category for Eastern European restaurants! It's not like I'm asking for a category for Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Cyprian, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, and Ukrainian cuisines, but come on, that's 12 countries that Yelp is saying "F*** YOU" to.
According to urbanspoon.com, that's 73 restaurants ignored, and we all know that yelpers could probably quadruple that list in a month. I'm one of the 213,447 living in New York and I am royally pissed off. My food isn't Russian or Middle Eastern!! Why not just call Japanese and Korean food "Chinese" and every cuisine in Europe "German", if you're just going to be that insultingly inaccurate? Argentinians get a category for their _eleven_ restaurants, while all of Greenpoint gets the Yelp finger!?
I wrote to Yelp over a month ago and got a vague "oh, yeah, we'll tell the "team" to look at it the next cycle". Whatever that means. Please, my fellow yelpers, let yelp know that it's not ok to snub half a continent. Help me bring about change and respect for my countrymen!
-Rose
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I've been twice, and I swear it doesn't hold a candle to either Antek or Basia. Antek is just as cheap but the food is way way better.
I agree so far with all of you on all counts. This place has got great, authentic polish food at rock bottom prices. It's GREAT for hangovers. I always enjoyed the combo platter with a little bit of everything. I wish we had places like this in LA.
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I'm 100% polish and we go here whenever in Greenpoint.
Authentic, homemade polish food!! The polish platter is soo good and soo cheap! The white borscht (zurek) is fantastic!
Tiny but great.
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I love the food. I love the decor. It's packed for lunch on the weekends. Weekdays lunch is a little more empty.
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Amazing food at rock bottom prices, I will never get tired of their chicken cutlets, yes the decor is awful and yes it's a bit out of the way if you don't live in Greenpoint or the upper reaches of hipster Williamsburg, and yes it gets crowded with hipsters who are either legitimately poor or pretending to be so out of some sence of irony, but don't let that stop you from eating this delicious food.
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THE FOOD IS AMAZING! AND AUTHENTIC (according to my Polish friend)!
If it's your first time trying Polish cuisine, then I suppose you could go for the Polish platter (3 pierogies, kielbasa, stuffed cabbage, bigos and potatoes, all for $5.50). Otherwise, try their boiled hocks (2 huge chunks, just falling apart on the plate, begging you to eat them) or the spare ribs (soooo juicy).
The potato pancakes are also amazing.
Also, save some room for the yummy blintzes!
The entrees come in huge portions, and everything is served with mashed potatoes.
We always practically order everything, and pack home whatever we can't finish. YES, it is that good.
PS. yes the interior decoration is a little brutal, but they are so nice and the food's so good!
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This tiny Polish restaurant has ridiculous decor, amazing kielbasa, a tangy delicious cucumber salad, and the sweetest staff ever.
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