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Kramarczuk's

Editor's Choice
$ | Eastern European/Deli

This lunch institution serves huge sausages, roast-beef sandwiches, and imported bottles of beer. The deli features a world of homemade sausages and salamis, plus the crusty rolls they're meant to be eaten on.

  • No Smoking
  • Kid-friendly
  • Outdoor dining
  • Wine and beer only
  • Entertainment
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • P | B M - Su /L M - Su /D Tu - Sa
215 Hennepin Ave. E.
Mpls., Minnesota 55414
Phone: 612-379-3018
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81
Minnesota Monthly | Rachel Hutton
01/05
Kramarczuk's kraut is neither stinky nor sour, and its finely shredded cabbage is speckled with spicy ground meat. These are middle Europe's comfort foods, recipes that begin with a stout grandmother, a large pot, and a steamy kitchen. The goulash is a thick jumble of toothsome hunks of beef, carrots, and potatoes in golden-blond gravy. And the dumplings have a pleasantly chewy, egg dough, filled with meat or cheese. The cheese are preferable, as the meat filling has a texture like tuna fish.
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80
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine
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BUZZ

Mpls.St.Paul Magazine | Andrew Zimmern
Comfort Classics
11/06
Orest Kramarczuk is as addicted to doing food the right way as anyone I know, and his modest (newly remodeled) café next to the deli that bears his name turns out some of the tastiest Eastern European grub this side of the Black Sea.
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Mpls.St.Paul Magazine | Andrew Zimmern
Best Restaurants
03/08
The Krakowska sausage alone makes it tops in my book, but there are about thirty sausages and cured meats to choose from. The recent expansive makeover included the new café, where you can sample everything from stuffed cabbage to real wurst to Czech sausage griddled and served with house-made sauerkraut.
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City Pages
Best Of
2001
Kramarczuk has a special place in our heart--in the artery just below the left ventricle, in fact, where years of pierogies and Polish sausage have coagulated into a little clot of warm nostalgia.
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Metro
Best Butchers
A former (beloved) hole-in-the-wall turned swank, European-style market, Kramarczuk's may have buffed up its digs, but it still sells the same delicious hand-made kishka, blood sausage and knackwurst that Wasyl and Anna Kramarczuk peddled to Northeast's Eastern European immigrants in the '50s.
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