New Warsaw

Good solid food. Dated inside but who cares. Service was ok. Food was good. Tasty and hot. Lots of choices.

I’ve been here for a long time. It’s an all you can eat Polish buffet.
The service is pretty good. The servers are quick with what I need. The staff are also nice and friendly to me.
The food is really good. I prefer the potato pancakes! I also prefer the sausage. Great taste of food!
All in all, good buffet place. I will be back.

Went here with reservations for Thanksgiving with the family.
Might as well have gone to a soup kitchen for the homeless — and that may have been better.
Upon entering, a musty smell hits your nose. We were seated and the place was nearly empty. We had two people taking care of our table, one spoke a little English but only knew Spanish, and the other only spoke Polish and knew very little english. lucky my Dad spoke fluent Polish so we was able to communicate our needs. I must note that the gentleman helping out at our table had a fully visible gash on his outer hand with dried blood all over it. No bandage. It was DISGUSTING.
Some of my relatives were brave enough to try and order drinks. My Aunt tried to order wine, but they didn’t know what a white wine was or a red etc. They managed to figure out after much commotion that they has «Pink Zinfandel» and «Pink Moscato» and 2 margarita options — «Strawberry or Mango» on the rocks.
The wines were mixed up upon delivery and they were unhappy. My other Aunt ordered a Strawberry Margarita. It looked weird, and heavy on the bottom. It looked like Strawberry jam caked up on the bottom and light red on the top. Supposedly it tasted like pure tequila with strawberry jam mixed in, which settled on the bottom. No good!
The food: Boxed mashed potatoes, the stuffed cabbage meat inside tasted REALLY FUNKY (took one bite — ABORT!) — the pierogies stuffed with meat tasted weird, the sliced ham tasted processed and plasticy. Nothing was good.
As I was going to get the food, a woman is wiping down in between the food trays sitting inside the buffet «scoop yourself» areas with what looked like a used kinda dirty rag.
I was just disgusted with the entire experience. There was also no handicapped parking spots in the lot, and I heard someone yelling for help in the woman’s bathroom — another woman came out and said that someone was stuck and needed help because there’s no safety rails or anything to cater to people that are disabled. There were more than a few people dining here in wheel chairs.
The bill for 7 people + 4 drinks was $ 185 and some change.
This place needs to be SHUT DOWN.

The quality of food has gone downhill. My family & I popped in on a Sunday morning before church to delight in their reasonably priced breakfast especially the fresh potato pancakes. We were sadly dissappointed since it seemed as though our potato pancakes tasted like re-​heated leftovers. They would of gotten one star but service is always good. We unfortuantely won’t be coming back here.

Really didn’t care too much for New Warsaw restaurant. Wasn’t any better than the last time I was here. Choices are very limited. And the choices they do have aren’t really all that good. I can think of 1,000 other places to have lunch at rather than here. I don’t like writing bad reviews but sometimes I HAVE TO. Only way I’ll come back is if I forget how much I didn’t like it and happen to pop in say 5 YEARS FROM NOW. Yeah, disliked it THAT MUCH.

«Let’s do the time warp again.» Seriously this place has not changed one iota since I first came here as a kid back in the 80s. If you are looking for this place, and are unfamiliar with the area, look for the building that suspiciously looks like an outdated funeral parlor. The interior has a faint, musty, grandma’s basement kind of smell to it, not the best for first impressions. Please, do no let that deter you from enjoying the Polish fare here, offered up in a copious buffet.
If you come here with intentions of eating healthy, just go somewhere else. Let the rest of us indulge in cholesterol-​laden delicacies. Yes, they have the basics (read: bare bones) to make a simple salad, but that is not what you came here for, is it? The hot buffet is the highlight. Even though there was only one other table occupied, the food was surprisingly fresh. (You know there are a couple of Bushas in the kitchen preparing these masterpieces.) Blintzes stuffed with sweet cream filling, stuffed cabbage rolls, cheese, kraut, and meat perogi (that rival my own grandma’s), sauerkraut, potato dumplings, fresh Polish sausage, and plenty of other Polish standards. Also, be sure to try the best chicken noodle soup on this earth, located next to the cold bar. As for the desert selection, skip it. Nothing to see here: mediocre Kolachky, dried out cakes, soupy rice pudding, and a non-​working soft-​serve machine.

We just finish our breakfast here. Everything was really good. Apple pancakes are delicious, the best I ever ate. Everything was fresh and even if for a couple minutes some trays were empty, they were making everything instantly.

I went there for a breakfast few days ago and good was ridiculous. Nothing was good, I never gonna come back there.

On Mother’s Day we went there and it was absolutely ridiculous $ 17 per person horrible service. After 15 min. I had to ask the waitress for something to drink really? For the price they charged there was no special selection and I had breaded chicken that was absolutely horrible. I will never put my foot in that door again it’s really sad that u can find good polish food anymore or service.

Went here on a Saturday night to try it out. I should have known that this place was not good based in the lack of cars in the parking lot. We went it to find out that dinner was a buffet. Not a bad thing until we saw the buffet. Lack of quality food and lack of choices. It really was disgusting and is probably why nobody was here. What a disappointment. I really wanted to like this place and am surprised that it stays open. We ended up going to a place at 79^th and Cicero which was very good and was crowded.

I’m kind of surprised at all the negative reviews. The food is good. The one complaint I have is that it’s too quiet. You have to have some music playing in the background. I approve.

This place is not the same as when I lived in the neighborhood 15 years ago. Not paying too much attention to the dingy looking old décor, my family and I settled in for a Sunday buffet. Some of the food looked like it was sitting there for a while and not everything was available. Besides the golabki (stuffed cabbage) and the chicken, (which are fantastic), I thought everything else was really mediocre at its best. I should’ve known that this was probably not the best place to eat when very few cars were in the parking lot at 1 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon. I wouldn’t have minded paying $ 100 for 5 people and a small child, but the food was not that great. One positive was the owner’s daughter, our host, whom was very accommodating. I surely hope they get this place running back up to par as they were really great years ago.

Aye!!!
Gads. I shoulda known better, really, I shoulda. When it’s dinner time and there are three cars in the parking lot you have to ask the question. When you walk in and it smells like an OLD building and dusty drywall, you should also take note. But man, there were GOOD reviews on this place, so maybe the food is outta sight.
Yes, it’s outta sight… there’s none of it. In the steam table buffet, there were scant amounts of food, the soup was nearly drained, and it all just looked tired, just plain worn out. And this was at 6p. I cannot imagine how bad it looked at 8p.
So, what I had was very average. The meatballs with gravy were likely the best. The mashed potatoes were obviously out of a box. The cabbage soup was so mushy, it was almost embarrassing. There were only 3 dumpings in the tray, and they seemed good, but very small.
Even with no business, I had trouble getting my bill from the staff. I feel bad leaving a bad review like this, but this place is awful.

I caught this place at noon on a Sunday, when they were just ending breakfast and starting the dinner cycle, so everything was fresh and plentiful. The old steamtable in the middle of the dining room held pork ribs (boiled, with a little BBQ sauce brushed on top), breaded chicken thighs and drumsticks, pork stew/“goulash,” breaded boneless pork chop, sliced pork loin in gravy, boiled potatoes with parsley, meatballs in a creamy dill sauce, stuffed cabbage, green beans, blintzes, saurkraut, kielbasa, dumplings, and 3 kinds of pierogis. Plus there was another large bar with a bunch of prepared cold salads. Oh, and two soups, chicken noodle and barley. And pieces of ham and beef under foil on a carving station (which I didn’t try because they looked a little dry).
The barley soup was extraordinary — creamy, deeply flavored, and comforting — a masterful rendition, obviously made from scratch, of a classic Polish American specialty. It had bits of dried mushroom, diced potato, bay leaf, allspice, finely shredded carrot, likely a little sour cream. It was just a little too salty.
The breaded chicken pieces were really flavorful and good, the way chicken SHOULD taste, as were the plump pierogi filled with spiced ground meat. Everything else was typical of places like Sawa’s or Bobak’s (or the late, lamented Tatra Inn on Pulaski) — somewhat heavy, much of it sitting in too much butter/​oil — but still, you got the impression it was all prepared with care and a deep sense of Polish American tradition. More importantly, everything I sampled was tasty. There was no pizza, mac and cheese, or ersatz Mexican like you find on the local Chinese buffet troughs; no awkward concessions to the changing neighborhood (Bobak’s is now making chorizo). I’m sure everyone in the kitchen is Polish, and it’s Polish food you come here to eat.
I had been wary of trying this place based on the earlier reviews. Don’t know if it would be as good on weekdays or off hours. It’s one of those places that’s rapidly becoming a little corner of the world that time forgot. The décor is old fashioned, and the plates are this old Homer Laughlin variety — commercial-​heavy, off white, with a curvy gold pattern around the rim; check the photo I’ve posted — that it seems like every «nice» restaurant on the South Side and south burbs had back in the 70s. The clientele (and there wasn’t much business for the large dining room; three or four tables) is older. I suspect a lot of bachelors and widowers eat here. There was, though, a larger gathering in the adjacent private room — middle-​aged and elderly, white haired Polish folks, the older men wearing what looked like suits and polyester ties they had purchased at the Ford City J.C. Penney back in 1979 but which they still wore with care and pride. One old rooster was sporting what was apparently an old Polish military uniform.
Sunday Buffet was $ 13. Surprisingly, I found a $ 5 check-​in offer on Foursquare for using AMEX. I couldn’t have imagined anyone at this place would know about Foursquare, and I had even wondered if they took credit cards.
But I have to say, this was a delicious and satisfying (and, if you grew up in this area, nostalgic) meal. The place may look a little tired, but the food didn’t reflect that. You come here if you want authentic, stick-​to-​your-​ribs, east European home cooking of the kind it’s increasingly difficult to find.

I have dined here a few times. Always a good selection of Polish dishes. Never a bad meal here.

The buffet has been excellent both times I have been there. Soups hot and delicious, not over-​salted. Lots of vegetables/​prepared salads (with typical mayonnaise dressings or oil. Beets, Bean Salad Cucumber salad (Miseria — Spelling?), etc. The buffet selection is a little limited compared to Jolly Inn or especially compared to Red Apple, however, the selections on the buffet are delicious. They had a dish of boiled, peeled potatoes fried in butter with dill and red & green pepper garnish. It tasted exactly like my Babcia (wearing a babushka) makes it! Sauerkraut (Deutsch spelling) was not too overpowering but a delicious flavoring. Roast beef, meatballs, kielbasa, chicken kiev are all standard fare and New Warsaw does these fine. The desserts selection is a little scant but you usually can’t get everything 100%. I opted for a Jello cube and a hot apple pancake from the buffet line.
The servers were extremely polite. They were relatively attentive. Only 2 servers were expected to cover at least 12 occupied tables. They seates us on the far end and we got a view of the entire restaurant.
I was sitting in the middle. I felt bad because Fr. Ralph sat on the end of the table and he kept getting up when the bishop and I stood up to get more food. I went around the other side of the table and that lying nun told everyone at the table (in a loud voice) that I kicked her as I went in back of her chair. Why would I kick a nun? Not me. May the lying nun go far away, perhaps to Antarctica.
Summer 201 when my Aunt and cousins (Italians) were in town we went there. They had never been to a Polish smörgåsbord. They found quite a bit of humor in the sign at the front door requesting that diners limit their eating time to 1.5 hours! Hilarious!

Very nice restaurant inside and out. It’s 6:00PM, prime dinner time on a saturday night and there is only one table occupied. Very strange. Also was a man just slouched in a chair at the table closest to the door. He did not say anything or even offer a greeting. After sitting down, figured out he was not a customer. Still not sure what he was other than a slob.
Stay to eat anyway as the main reason I’m here is to try Polish food. What better way than a buffet right? Well, if it were busy… yes. I forgot because of my hunger that when a buffet restaurant is not busy, the food is not fresh. The soup was good though… and piping hot. They have 2 soups to choose from and about 15 – 20 dishes… different pierogis and various meats. All were not fresh and nothing came out while I was there. Even the waitress was hardly to be seen. The food might have been really good if it were hot and fresh… I’ll never know as I will not be back.

For what it is, it works. This is a place to come for a CHEAP, Polish buffet. The hot items are really tasty. Fried chicken floating in grease and butter, pierogis floating in grease and butter, all manner of fried potato things (pancakes, dumplings), mashed potatoes, gravy with chicken gizzards floating in it, some sort of beef in a thick brown gravy, and of course a salad bar and two soups of the day. All of the above was good.
The desert bar on the other hand, not so good. They had assorted jello and cookies, and they also had some nondescript cake type things. I opted for the cake type things and within a moment of biting into them, could tell that they had been sitting in a freezer somewhere for way too long and had recently been thawed out (or possibly, re-​thawed). I realize for the $ 5 or $ 6 it cost for the buffet, I might be asking a little much in my request that the desert not taste freezer-​burned beyond all recognition, but there you have it.
The atmosphere is no-​nonsense, utilitarian, with a smattering of polish posters, dolls, and other knickknacks throughout the place, and the service is straight out of the old country.

This is where you go when you are broke and hungry.
Skip breakfast come for lunch and you won’t be hungry at dinner time.
For around $ 6 you can eat all the Kielbasa, Pierogies, and other polish cuisine you want.
You have to try the Apple Pancakes they are awesome.
DO NOT order a drink though $ 7.50 for a rum and coke WTF? In a neighborhood where it should not cost more than $ 3.That’s more than your meal.

I feel horrible only giving this place 2 stars, as it seems like a struggling restaurant who have had to cut back to avoid going out of business.
The building itself is a bit strange, and seems like it may have once been a funeral parlour before it was converted to a restaurant. Creepy.
My wife and I walked in to a huge dining area, deserted aside from one other table, and no wait staff. After a few minutes of standing, we took our own seats, and after a few more minutes of waiting, we went to the buffet to grab our food. While we were returning to out table, the waitress finally appeared and took our drink order.
The buffet itself is tiny compared to other chicago polish buffets: One small row of trays, some, filled with your standard polish fare. The best thing I tasted there was the soup. the rest was overbuttery, and fairly boring. The potato pancakes, for one, were so overbuttered that if you cut into them with your fork, a look of butter would coalesce on top. I guess for some people, this would be a benefit, but for someone with a bad gall bladder, it lead to a few hours of intense pain later that night :(
I hate to give any polish buffet a bad review, because I love polish food and I love buffets. I also love underdogs, and would love to see this place come back from the brink and really start doing things better, but I fear it may be too late :(