Baltic Deli & Cafe

Great place for Polish items, and some Lithuanian items.

Best sandwiches in southie, try a «polish» sandwich and you’ll always come back. The staff are the best, super nice, pretty women. I eat here daily, have 0 complaints from customer service to speed to quality of food doesn’t get any better

The only place in Boston where you can get Slovak beer. You can get Zlaty bazant /​Golden Pheasant there, as well as in their affiliated Café Polonia restaurant.

After neither Bazaar’s Russian-​style pierogi’s nor Wegmans American imperialist ones made the cut, I decided it was finally time to schlep down to Dorchester and give Baltic a whirl. They sell their own house-​made pierogis in Market Basket ziploc bags, it felt more like I had gotten a thank you from a neighbor, and that kraut and mushroom mix was no joke.
I’m Polish in the way that the Kardashians are Armenian. Read: food and occasionally attending an ethnic church. The neighborhood I grew up in also had a sizable Polish population, and several markets set up just like this. I only wish they did hot food in addition to their pastries, which by the way also taste like they were baked that morning by a tough-​as-​nails Polish chick.
Baltic is the real deal, I just wish that the Polish community of Boston could move somewhere a bit closer to me.

This is a great Polish deli! All kinds of great Polish and European groceries and foods.

Authentic Polish market in not the greatest location but has a great offering of meats and groceries. Very affordable.

Baltic deli is delicious. The many choices of deli items to choose from makes this a deli utopia. Got some essentials for my thanksgiving get together of friends who could not leave town to go see family so we made our own thanksgiving piecing together items people brought to my place. We had many of the sides and cutlets from Baltics and I had some good feedback from my friends. Super good service and nice counter help. Will use them again for the Super Bowl party I am planning. Go Pats!!!

It doesn’t look like much from the outside, but when you go in, there are plenty of shelves packed full. They don’t have as much in stock as Euromart down the road, but they still have a massive selection of breads, teas, and the ubiquitous Pickled Veg In Jars. In particular they do excellent homemade soups that you can buy frozen if you don’t feel like making your own from scratch.

How have I not reviewed Baltic Deli yet? I love it here!
My gentleman caller is half Polish, so every once in a while we come here together and I get to be the wide-​eyed brown girl in the Polish store. There’s so much to see! Fancy bread (lemon poppy seed foreverrrrr), sausage and fresh cheese, all kinds of gingerbread, frozen pierogi, packets of insta-​borscht, and all the pickled things you could ever want. It’s always a struggle for me to control myself — I’m a sucker for an ethnic grocery store.
If you get nothing else at Baltic Deli, get yourself a bag of krówki (pronounced kroof-​kee). It’s Polish milk fudge. POLISH MILK FUDGE, GUYS! It’s like a less sweet dulce de leche. Sooooo good. That, and a big jar of pickled herring. Too legit to quit.

After Cari’s review, I went just to get a babka on the way back from eating at Café Polonia. Having been to Poland, I am partial to the food and definitely was interested in all of the items they had on display. Unfortunately, I was also flying the next morning so I wasn’t interested in carrying too much back to DC.
Babka was amazing, kids dug the cookies, and I regretted not picking up some frozen goods to carry back. If I’m back in Boston again, I will certainly ensure I pick up some stuff next time!

Just picked up some homemade frozen pierogi, marinade garlic, jarred sauerkraut, and Polish mustard for dinner tonight. All were excellent and the right price. I just wish I could get this quality of goods closer to home in Brookline!
I’m glad I stocked up, betting that the food would be great… it fulfilled all my hopes.

Lovely little deli with all sorts of other foods besides the meats. Had the «Polish» sandwich and one of their fresh made sweets of crêpe with sweet cheese. Enjoyed both and will come back for more the next time I am in the area.
You can make a sandwich out of any of the meats they sell, or you can go with their sandwich menu. I liked my Polish sandwich on a baguette, which had a good portion of tasty meats, very fresh vegetables and just the right combo of sauces… yum. The crêpe looked okay but tasted very good actually!

I can’t believe I have never been here, considering I lived down the road from it for 5 years!
So this week was the week! I went, I found parking and I explored. You are first greeted with a variety of breads and (I don’t know the english word) what looks like Potica to me, kind of a sweet bread with a swirl of dessert throughout. As much as I wanted one, I didn’t get it.
Then you walk down an aisle of beverages, teas, sauce mixes, pickles, pickled vegetables, pates etc. Pretty much, every turn you make you are greeted with wines and liquers which all sounded lovely.
Way in the back is the refrigerated stuff, cheeses, sausages, Kefir, butters, milk, Salat Olivier (YUM) eggs and beer. Oh and the frozen part had a lovely variety of pierogies, kind of expensive though, but let me tell you, DELICIOUS.
Up the next aisle looked like candies and chocolate of all kinds. Milka, Kinder… And of course the deli across from that.
Ok the deli was confusing, everything has a sign but you still can’t tell which is which, but if something looks good, just ask and they will share. I ended up getting veal loaf (German call it Leberkaese) and a fresh kilebase.
The loaf is just ok… I would get it if I HAD to, but prefer similar from other places.
Kielbase is pretty damn good, I grilled it, burnt one end of it (oops) but it was still dripping with moist n meatiness inside.
The pierogies are delicious as well as the salat Olivier. I also got a container of stuffed cabbage, but have not yet tried them, will this week!
And lastly everything except the pierogies were VERY decently priced, I was quite happily surprised! Will be back!
UPDATE: I ate the stuffed cabbage. They were ok! I probably would make my own next time.

Great trip to memory lane (for me, Brockton’s Lithuanian Village or the M&M in Stoughton), large selection of smoked meats, sausages, cheese, pastries, breads, candies, pickles. all from the old country, Even Lithuanian beer! They have great fresh made deli sandwiches, my fav being the Polish sandwich=smoked ham, veal and Canadian bacon with lettuce/​tomato, pickle, horseradish and mustard which I nicknamed the burpwich. Its a steal at $ 4.99 and you can get chips and a drink for a total of $ 6.50. Explain to me why D’Angelos exists?

I came to Baltic deli to get the fixings to create a yummy Polish Easter meal. Since I wanted the food to be as fresh as possible, I thought I would be slick and wait until Sat to get the food. I knew Sunday that it would be closed, so in my head this idea sounded great. As I am walking into the place and thinking how smart I was to do it this way, I am hit by a line that is going around the store. The line started at the door!!! Yikes, the first thing I realized is that other mom’s clearly have smart babies too, and they all had the same idea I did. As I started to ponder my next move, I was hit with the smells that only a real deli could produce.
I was drawn to the back of the line and waited amounst my masses for it to be my turn. As the time moved on, I hear a lot of Polish, but also a good amount of English being spoken. There is a family in front of me and the son is complaining about the wait. The mom quickly dismisses his comments by saying this place has the best kielbasa in town, we are not going anywhere.
It took me 1 hour to get from the back of the line the front. Upon reaching the cash register, I had acquired the following:
Kielbasa: 5 stars
Babka: 3.5 stars
Assortment of Polish beers: 5 stars
Polish pickles: 5 stars
Krocuska: 5 stars
Guwimpki: 1.5 stars (really disappointed with this)
Bread: 4 stars
Homemade pirogi: 4.5 stars (I liked the meat better than the cheese one)
Strawberry and cheese blinzes: 4 stars
1 hour and $ 62 dollars later, I was out of there. I cooked it all up yesterday and could barely move for at least an hour after that. I will certainly be back, but not the day before a major holiday.

I found my Polish heritage in this place!
After a stay in the hospital May of 2010, I had a Polish Nurse, who laugh and joked with me about being a Polski, and told me about the song «She likes Keilbasa better than fish» (Google it). The day I got out of the hospital I did a search for Polish Deli’s and found this place, and it was worth the 40 minute ride.
The cured Keilbasa was phenomenal, the Alexandra Frozen Periogis (I believe come from Chicago) were absolutely phenomenal, boil them for the recomended time and then eat with some of the keilbasa fried with onion and some of the Horseradish with beets, it was one of the best dinners I ever had, and my family can cook. The Alexandra Frozen Seilsa dumplings are also unbelivable.
There was this Cheese Bread similar to a moneky bready that was awesome, and the Blintzes from the deli case were sooo good. There were the small thin dried keilbasa that was the best snack food that would blow the doors off a slim jim. YOU HAVE TO TRY THE GULUMPKIS too, they were a lilttle salty, but they were so delicous.
I’ve been to this place four times since last May, and another big trip is coming in the very near future.

I did a bad thing… Six years ago when I lived a block from here, I started buying cheese babkas and bringing them to the family holidays. Now my aunt won’t let me in the house without bringing one. Since I live far from here now, it is a pain in the butt. However, this is only place I have found that makes the authentic babkas and pierogis of my youth, so I guess I will have to keep traveling to the old hood.
In summary, this place is super authentic. It is almost like a mini version of Pulaski’s in Linden, NJ (the king, in my family’s book, of all Polish delis).

This is the REAL DEAL. I was almost in despair not being able to find a true Eastern European purveyor in Boston. It is true I am not by birth an Eastern European, but this has not stopped me in my life having a very warm place in my heart for a good meal based on potatoes, cabbage and meat.
You will find in this market, among other amazing imports, true Latvian rye bread, both the dark and light varieties. One thing to be aware of, however, is that the bread is sometimes sold out: so a quick call before making a trip over would be advised. Meats, canned and bottled goods, lots of teas, lots of candies, and very helpful staff.

I love that all ethnic food markets are pretty much the same. I went to Baltic with a co-​worker during lunch (her mom and babcia were in the mood for headcheese) and I was pleasantly surprised to see that this little Polish deli is just like the Korean markets I frequent.
The kielbasa selection is amazing. (The dried kielbasa is really good.) On Wednesdays they get their donuts delivered — and they are all really good. (The raspberry filled with a little powdered sugar on top? Heavenly).
I keep going back for the homemade frozen pierogi. Before coming to Baltic my pierogi knowledge was minimal (Mr. T’s anyone?). The potato & cheese pierogis are amazing. They fry up in seconds in the pan and are delicious.

It’s a great place to stop by for Polish/​European things. They have a good selection of your standard jams, cookies, breads, etc. They also offer fresh deli meats (mmm smoked ham) and even some pastries and home-​made things. Best of all? They do have fresh frozen pierogi in their freezer. If you think Mrs T’s is good, you are missing out on heaven.
The service was excellent. The girls were friendly and attentive. Don’t be warded off if you aren’t Polish, they seem to have a great handle either way and can answer your questions.
Good location. 5 minute walk from Andrew.