Pasieka Bakery

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Does anyone know if they reopened somewhere else?

Burned down today:(

paczki day couldn’t have been any better after walking into pasieka’s! such an array of paczki’s to choose from & only $.85 each! that’s crazy talk! they were so good & tasted just like the ones my busia used to get (i’m beginning to wonder if she went here?!)!! would HIGHLY recommend pasieka’s & can’t wait to go back & try other baked goods!

Excellent custom birthday cake, very beautifully decorated and very tasty. They also have a variety of delicious Polish bakery. Paczkis are less than a buck :)
Ordering the cake was easy, staff are always helpful, and the poppyseed rolls rock my socks.

Happy Fat Tuesday everyone! Oh wait, that was last week, wasn’t it?
No wonder all the Polish Catholics are giving me dirty looks when I offer them paczkis today. But the temptation of paczkis during Lent is just a little prank us Jewskis like to play on the Catholicskis dating back centuries in the old country and you’d think they’d laugh it off by now (not really, I just made that up).
Here’s is a real secret though (besides the fact that I didn’t really buy paczkis this morning, though I sort of want one now) that I couldn’t reveal last week and why I waited until the next ordinary Tuesday to write this review. Pasieka is the super secret stash of paczkis in Chicago each plastic Polish St. Patrick’s Day (aka Paczki Day).
And at .85 cents a piece they are a bargain. Even when I went after work, there were still rose, custard, and blueberry left from the many flavors they had in the morning. And another secret — paczkis are available year round (even during lent for those who didn’t give up sweets or baked goods) so you could go in there right now and indulge.
Now I come from near a city where Polish bakeries are a way of life and people line up for two hours to buy paczkis each year (and it’s even covered on every local news channel). Pasieka doesn’t really live up to those standards in size or quality; but it is very authentic. Authentic right down to playing rock music over the speakers instead of hokey Polish anthems like they could play to cater to a wow-​factor crowd.
Each time I get pastries of any sort from here they’re always a little bit dry for some reason; though they never fail to be sweet and delicious and really well priced to boot (it’s really hard for even sweet toothed me to get to the $ 10 credit card minimum usually). And they don’t even jack up the prices on Paczki Day, the one day a year when everyone crams the Polish bakeries.

I’m torn on this one because when the bakery goodies are fresh, they’re great — but it’s kind of hit or miss. The prices are reasonable — which is a good thing as it is a gamble on whether or not what you purchase will be as tasty as you imagine.

This is the worst Polish bakery in the city! And the fact that it is usually empty nowadays proves it. You can expect the pastries to be old or just way too sweet. It gets one star for the poppy cake, that they managed not to screw up.

Definate four stars… if only for the big, braun old polish men baking in the back. Something very «Moonstruck» about a big man slaving over a hot oven, baking bread.
It’s not a huge place, neither is it tiny. They have selections of breads, pasteries and cakes. You see cakes lining the window from the outside. Typical bakery design.
The apple, struedel type cake/​pastry thing is good. I’d give the real name of it, but unfortunately I can’t find one name tag on ANY of the pastries! So as in any of my polish establishments, I just point and nod. Smile here and there.
Don’t get the tarimisu! It’s a bit dry and the cream is too marshmellowy. But maybe that’s just how it’s made — polish style. I find polish pastries on the dry side, french — «oh my God my teeth are going to fall out» decadently rich, and Italian somewhat hard.
You CANNOT beat the prices!!! The pastries are pretty and just good enough that you won’t eat the entire thing, but a decent helping.
I LOVE polish bread, but haven’t tried Pasieka’s for I’m taken by another… Kurowski’s has my heart on Polish Rye with a smear of «I can’t believe it’s not butter.»

I stopped in here to stock up on some paczkis on Fat Tuesday. I had seen the 6 o’clock news where they featured this place and it looked really busy and good.
I was underwhelmed. They only had day-​old paczkis for sale which were really gross and stale. Had to go a few doors down to get some really good stuff.
I’ll check it out again, for sure, to sample various Polish delights. But not what I was expecting.

Pasieka is a good Polish bakery. If all I wanted was Polish baked goods I’d probably give them 4 stars. They have good bread here, and I like their poppy seed cake. Also, I’m always happy to come here since it’s such a lively bakery– on the weekends there’s a steady stream of locals doing their shopping here which gives it a happy, European feeling.
So I give it 3 stars– where did those two missing stars go? Well, I’m picky and searching for my ideal all-​around bakery.
So for me, I knock one star off for being so Polish-​centric. Again, I like Polish baked goods, but I can’t live by Polish baked goods alone– I need pie and coffee cake and cookies too! If you show up here hoping for some US style coffee cake and maybe a pie, you’re expecting the wrong thing.
The second star goes for the fact that some of their goods I just don’t like. Especially their Danishes. I’ve tried the apricot ones, and the apricot middle tastes like orange! And not like good orange either– big let down. Plus, both the cherry and the «apricot» ones share what I find to be kind of bland dough. They coat it up in powdered sugar, but underneath it all it’s still kinda bland, like country white bread rather than a sweet roll.
So there goes two stars for me– too Polish and hit or miss on the yummyness. If you really like Polish baked goods though, this place might be 5 stars.

I grew up going to this bakery, and I almost got a job here as a teenager. They have a huge selection of Polish baked goods, cookies, paczki (Polish donuts), cakes, pies, bread, etc. It is all really good. My favorites are the makowiec (poppy seed cake), paczki (of course), and the jagodzianki (blueberry filled buns usually covered with drops of coarse sugar). Make sure you get there pretty early, they make everything fresh early in the morning in the back, so if you get there in the evening, they may not have as good of a selection. Good fresh bread as well. I especially love the rye.