Seven Roses

Been wanting to try this place for months, so very disappointed for what transpired. Went with my friend Lisa today. I called earlier and asked how late the lunch buffet was… she said 3pm. I asked how much… she said $ 11.99. We got there about 2:35pm. Said we wanted the buffet. She said have a seat and we’ll fix you something (we were the only 2 customers there.) 2 other men were there they seem to know. No menu or explanation of what was about to happen. She brings 2 cups of soup. My friend said oh I didn’t get a chance to say but I’m vegan. She said I’ll just have water just leaving me to be the only one to eat. They tried to offer her a few things but realized that even the simplest thing at least had dairy in it. Then I got a potato cake (had to ask for sour cream) I had to ask for my pop twice… then it was brought with a glass (no ice) and a can of pop (I had to ask for ice.) I wanted a glass of water too but never got the chance to ask so my friend gave me hers since I was the one eating. I shared my pop with her. Then I got my main plate given to me (no buffet) 2 stuffed cabbages, mashed potatoes and gravy, 3 meatballs, one kinda cool barbecue rib, and 3 pierogies. And then two cookies dropped off later.
We were there over 2 hrs talking and so were the sisters that worked there/​own it? One talking with the 2 men in Polish. No one ever came back to offer a water refill another pop or to clear a plate. We were ready to go and I asked for the check. She said I’ll take care of that at the front. She then said the bill was $ 14.99. I go to pay it and my friend insisted it was her treat. I wanted to ask about the $ 11.99 that was now magically $ 14.99. (Even to add a can of pop, a can of pop doesn’t cost $ 3 bucks.) My friend is the type to just pay it and move on. She gave the woman a $ 20 and said keep the change. I could’ve lost it. With that service no way did they deserve $ 5 bucks! I got an over inflated buffet price and no buffet and frankly sh! tty service. I WILL NEVER EVER IN LIFE GO BACK. I didn’t like the switch-​a-​rue price for the buffet that I never even got. Was never asked would I like anything else or seconds. AWFUL SERVICE. We would’ve been better off going to McDonald’s and sitting at the park. Food tasted fine but with that nonchalant service and not getting what was asked and paid for. WHAT A STRANGE WAY TO DO BUSINESS! Seat your customer then serve them what you want and then charge them $ 15 bucks for lunch! I just can’t get over my experience here. I’LL NEVER GO BACK!

My mother was from the former Yugoslavia and my Grandmother was from Germany. I grew up eating food just like this. It was like being back at my grandmother’s house. There weren’t very many people here when we arrived, which was surprising since Solkolowsi’s is always so busy and this place is just as good. I suppose it’s just not very well known, which is good for me. I didn’t have to wait in line. Everyone in here was speaking Polish, I think, and everyone seemed to know each other.
I’ll start by saying it’s a lunch buffet and I ate 4 plates. There was stuffed cabbage rolls, pork schnitzel, sweet peppers and chicken, kielbasa, sour kraut, potato pancakes and pierogi. They also had some rigatoni but that’s not what I came for. I also took some delicious apple cake home. I was so stuffed I couldn’t do anything else that day. You should go here but not all of you. I don’t want this place getting so busy that I have a hard time getting a table.

Best pierogi in town but most bizarre menu and service. Good dill pickel soup. I have been in here several times and the buffet is always set up with cold food, That’s usually your only option. On occasion there is a waitress working but most of the time you walk in to just people eating, Once they announced they were closing only to open up again a few months later. Once, I ordered a 6 dollar pierogi dinner and the waitress told me to go to the buffet and get what I wanted. Then they charged me 14 bucks. Once I ordered Kraut pierogi only to be told to call ahead if you want them. Then they bring you schnitzel and soup and a dessert which, when I asked what it was, the waitress, in a thick accent, replied «kook-​ees.»
I understand that if you go there on a Friday night, that’s when you can actually order off the menu and they have everything.
Best of luck!

I was really looking forward to coming here because of the overall great reviews and wonderful pictures. Got the buffet for two, there was cabbage rolls, kraut, kielbasa, mashed potatoes, mixed veggies, roast beef, and they brought out two potato pancakes, two small pierogi for each of us, and lastly a piece of cake for each of us, but no soup was offered like other reviewers mentioned /​received. I was ok with that, as there was already a lot of food. Food was pretty tasty, especially the cabbage rolls and mashed potatoes, though I’m pretty easy to please when it comes to Eastern European comfort food. The check out is where it turned sour. I approached the counter with three $ 10’s in my hand, figuring it was going to be around $ 25 with tax, based on the other Unilocal reviews I read. The woman at counter punches in $ 15 twice and takes the whole $ 30 from me! I asked her «How much was it per meal?» and she replies «$ 15.00», even though there’s a stack of menus by the register that list the price as $ 8.99. I point to that and she says «prices have gone up, that paper is old» and «we are going to be getting rid of the buffet soon, I don’t like it.» So many «wtf’s?» were swirling around my head at that moment. I didn’t want to cause any problems with this lady, there’s already a slight language barrier, she’s kinda gruff, and I did enjoy the food, so I quietly left, but did take a copy of their pricing sheet. I’d be interested to know what people are charged who dine there after me though, please post!

Great Polish food! The Fleet Avenue streetscape construction is underway, but they are open 11−5pm. Help them get through the construction and check it out!

Cash only! I am glad I read Unilocal reviews before I went otherwise I would have been totally confused. They do not have a menu, it’s a buffet with extras delivered to your table. They served us mushroom soup to start and then we headed to the buffet which had (sorry I don’t know Polish terms) cabbage rolls, a goulash, spaetzel, some veggie thing, and a potato bacon loaf. While we were eating they served us very delicious potato pancakes and perogies. And just when we thought we were done they brought out an apple strudel dessert. This place is easy to pass by since it doesn’t have the name on the outside of the building, there is just a tarp that says Polish Restaurant.

I have to admit, some friends and I went to Seven Roses three times last week. Each time we went we had a different and unique experience. The way the place works is you sit down wherever you like and begin with the buffet. Each time we went, the staples were cabbage rolls, sauerkraut, mashed potatoes, meatballs, and pork. They mixed in BBQ ribs on the second day and some amazing schnitzel the third. But that is just the buffet. Throughout the meal, you will be presented with soup, potato pancakes, perogies and desert, all freshly made in the kitchen. The total cost of the meal is $ 12 with soda and is well worth the price. I must warn, that after the buffet, you will be exhausted and probably need a nap, but that is all part of the fun. Seven Roses also has a take out and deli featuring a number of Polish staples.

I had not eaten there in about a year, was looking forward to returning. As always the food was fantastic. I read the reviews and every one said all they had to pay was $ 10.50. That woman told me $ 15 bucks each, I said WHAT ! I was blown away. Today was my treat, I am not use to spending $ 30 for lunch. Buyer beware.

I had lunch at Seven Roses a few weeks ago… on accident. I know, I know… how does that happen? We were going to another restaurant close by, the GPS glitched, we stopped here instead… long story short, I’m so glad we went to the wrong place!
Lunch is a buffet, but so much more… after we got a plate of food from the buffet, the staff kept bringing more courses! Homemade Amish chicken noodle soup, fresh potato pancakes, fresh sauteed pierogies, desserts… There was so much food for only $ 10! And the staff was super friendly. I felt like family there!

First: If you look on Google Maps for this restaurant, it will show its location on Fleet Ave. and say «This place has closed or relocated.» That is not true.
Second: Come for the food, not the décor/​atmosphere. If I were grading the décor, the score would be 2 stars.
Third: The authentic Polish food is very good. Perogi, stuffed cabbage, mashed potatoes, soup, kielbasa, potato pancake, all delicious. They are considered a deli also, but when I was there for lunch everyone was eating the buffet.

Amazing, delicious Polish buffet for only $ 10.50! This is like eating at my grandmother’s house… potato pancakes brought fresh to the table, pierogies, cabbage and noodles, kielbasa, chicken, stuffed cabbage, are all included! You can’t beat the quality and flavor for the price! Take home kielbasa, soups, pierogies and Polish bakery from the deli counter. Don’t miss it. This is Cleveland!

Polish comfort food for Poles!
Seven Roses is Polish food as it is in Poland. That is to say, made from scratch, well-​composed, and flavorful. The setup is a bit confusing to the unitiated, but then again, everything in Poland is confusing as hell, too. :-) There is a small grocery stocked with Polish imports up front, a deli counter next to the register, and small café in the back. If you want to eat in the café, you just have a seat.
White lace curtains don the walls, which are otherwise painted a rose pink color. There is a pressed tin ceiling. It’s very homey and felt a lot like grandma’s house. The café would not be out-​of-​place in Krakow.
I was greeted promptly by a young woman, who took my beverage order and asked if I would like soup. She brought me my beverage, a potato pancake, and a cup of barzszcz czerwony (beetroot soup). The potato pancake was firm, crispy, and fresh, and had been fried in butter. The soup – which is one of my yardsticks for Polish restaurants – was out-​of-​this-​world. A bit of cream had been added to give it a nice pink color, and plenty of fresh dill had been added as a flavorful garnish. There were chunks of shredded beets in the bottom of the cup. Smaczne!
There is no menu here, so you choose from the small buffet selection, which had eight items during the time of my visit. There were cabbage and noodles (kluski i kapusta), roasted pork tenderloin, a chicken dish, pierogi ruskie, sauerkraut, stuffed cabbage (gołąbki), mashed potatoes and (mysteriously) chili (that I wish had been gulasz instead).
The gołąbki were covered in tomato sauce, with fresh dill sprinkled on top. They were not the most delicious I had ever had (Radio Café in Warszawa holds that honor), but were respectable. The pierogi were made with serem (farmer’s cheese) and served boiled – very tasty and traditional. I enjoyed the roast pork, and the sauerkraut was amazing.
During a second trip to the buffet, there were no pierogi, but one of the servers told me she was about to bring out more, and she did.
If your exposure to Polish food has been limited to prepackaged «smoked kielbasa» and frozen pierogi, the food at Seven Roses may not be quite what you expected. This is the real deal, folks.
All in all, I was very happy with the experience. My meal, including beverage and tax, ran $ 10.50. Bring cash – no credit cards accepted. You can also order a sandwich from the deli, and both the buffet and deli have «to-​go» options.
It is important to note, however that Polish is the primary language of this establishment. It helps if you speak at least a little. Non-​Polish speakers may feel a little lost, although at least one member of the staff (I believe the owner’s daughter) speaks good English.
One should also know that, if arriving around 11 or 11:30 AM on a Sunday, this place will be flooded by Poles who just left Mass at St. Stanislaus, so large parties of Polish-​speaking folks can be expected.
There is a very popular Polish-​American restaurant in town that I find quite tasty, but when I want Polish food that reminds me of the Motherland, I’ll be coming to Seven Roses. Smacznego!

First time here. I’m familiar with Seven Roses since they’re at Cleveland’s Oktoberfest every year, and at Oktoberfest it is Der Braumeister and Seven Roses that have the longest lines. It’s a buffet, but you can get frozen pierogies and such to take home. I love their kielbasi … Yummmmm

This was one of those experiences where i needed a cooling off period before I wrote this review. I just wanted to make sure i was being fair and not just picky. Nothing about my visit was comfortable.
It was a Sunday morning around 11:30 am when we arrived. I was very excited to try this place because I love Polish food and this is located in an area where you would expect to find the finest Polish food. When i walked in there was no one there. In fact, i didn’t even know if there were employees there. No one came to greet us, nothing. Eventually a woman came out and said «Sit where you want, we have buffet.». Alrighty then… We sat. We waited. She then came back out and appeared annoyed that we didnt know what to do. Took our drink order and then told us to go to the buffet. The food in the buffet looked great. Not much there, but what there was looked fantastic. I was disappointed to see there were no potato pancakes, because that is what i came for. When the waitress returned she told me they had no diet pop and that they had tea… Ok not the same but sure, ill take tea. Then told us the Potato Pancakes were not done yet, she would bring them out. Well she never did but a nice old lady saw we didnt have any and brought us each one. I am a sizable fellow, One potato pancake is hardly enough to satisfy me. but apparently thats just too bad. cause i only got one.
The food. Well that was a disappointment. I have had better stuffed cabbage at a carnival. The sauce had no taste and added nothing to the dish. I am not sure what any of the other stuff was, but the only thing that had flavor was the burnt kielbasa and sauerkraut. Which was pretty good actually.
All of the sudden out of no where, the door opens and hoards of people start coming in. Grabbing things from the shelves and heading over to a really long table in the corner. They were all dressed very nicely and seemed to be very familiar with the place and its staff. They basically took over. At this point the staff could care less that we were there. They were bringing food, drinks and potato pancakes (that i could have eaten by the way…) over to this table. I am not kidding when i say it was approximately 30 people. So now that we are completely invisible … there was no point in refilling my tea. it was time to go. Which is something else you wouldn’t know if you have never been here, there is no check… you just go up and pay. But since there is no menu and no one tells you anything. you have NO idea how much this adventure will cost you. Well it cost us $ 25.00 and it was worth about 25% of that… But in all honesty. what price can you put on experience?
I will skip past the really mean stuff and get right down to it. This is a neighborhood place. If they know you and you know them, i am sure the experience is completely different. Skip the pastries, although they look good, they are god awful. In my quest to shop and eat at locally owned restaurants instead of chains, this place was a HUGE speed bump. The steel buffet trays lined with tasteless food will not make my list of places to return to.
Skip it.

4 stars for our first visit!
This place is amazing. Seven Roses is located in the Slavic Village, a historic neighborhood with recent attempts of turning around. The Eastern European enclaves in Cleveland are so interesting and cool. Seven Roses has a lot of customers that speak their native Eastern European languages, and many of the staff here don’t speak English.
Seven Roses is mostly a lunch place. It closes at 6pm during the weekdays during the wintertime, as we soon found out one evening. We went again on Saturday for the Polish buffet lunch, and it was amazing.
Some of the best things were the stuffed cabbage and potato pancakes. Mmm mmm good. My friend, who has an Eastern European heritage, said that it was the best stuffed cabbage and it stood out from the others in Cleveland because it had a homemade taste. We had heard about their pierogies from a barber in Steelyard, so we ordered a plate full of them. They were handmade (amazing) and they were sooo delicious!
The front part of the restaurant is a Polish store, complete with bacon and deli meats. The back part of the restaurant seems to also be convertible into a party area. It’s definitely a homely restaurant with a family-​owned feel.
When we were wrapping up our meal, we looked at each other and agreed that this wouldn’t be our last time eating here!

They accommodated me even though I was a little late coming in but 6pm does seem to be an odd time to close the buffet. The service and food were both very good, especially for the price. I had access the the remenents of the buffet which were still edible and what I assume it the «usual combo» Perogies, potato pancakes, stuffed cabbage and soup. Everything except the soup excited my buds.
What stands out the most to me about the experience was all the polish speech bouncing around. There was a tv playing a soap opera comedy, which would have really turned me off, but it was a Polish soap opera comedy, with a cheesy muscle bound man dressed up as a robot with a motocross helmet that was two sizes too small for his little head… I know it has nothing to do with the food, but that did tickle me.
On my way out I bought one of each of the Polish chocolate candies. Really interesting sweets. I ate them down by the Cuyahoga, the river known for catching fire.

Marketers attempt to get your money. They try every which way to convince you that you must have their company’s product. At one time they divided consumers into target groups believing at every age our tastes changed. Despite so many young Unilocalers’ comments, marketers discovered age no longer mattered as seniors look and behave more like Cher and less like Barbara Bush. A fairly recent marketing approach is the experience. To attract customers a restaurant must offer more than just a cold beer or a ham sandwich. Restaurants now offer entertainment in what looks like a movie setting. Fake this, fake that.
Seven Roses is a real experience. I think it is unique to our city. Now that some films are being made in Cleveland I expect to see Jennifer Aniston helping herself to sauerkraut at the buffet on the screen of my local Regal Theater.
Seven Roses seems to be totally run by women with only a few speaking English. They sell bakery, deli, home made smoked meats, prepared foods, imported canned goods, and have a buffet. The building is old and the walls are filled with wooden shelves holding jars and cans and adorned with lace. Small wooden tables and chairs are in the back. Old Pope John Paul would have been happy here.
The buffet continues throughout the day with the cook bringing out trays frequently. The dishes change daily and hourly. Small stuffed cabbage is one of the only dishes that is always available. I am not Polish so I do not like every dish nor do I know what many are. That holds true for the bakery and deli as well. The things I have liked keep me coming back.
Last evening I went with two friends. I thought the buffet was not at its best as far as the offerings with too many ground meat dishes. No matter, we all managed to overeat and leave happy. I have learned to go right to the buffet in the back. That way I can pass the bakery and deli stuffed on my way out not wanting to buy everything I see.

Let me preface this by saying I only got their paczki’s on Fat Tuesday… and they pale in comparison to Kiedrowski’s. They were ok, but the dough was a little tough because I think they were cooked a bit too long. Fillings were alright, the apricot tasted a bit fake, almost too sweet… let me just say that if you’re in the mood for some phenomenal paczki’s, skip this place and drive out to Amherst for the best in the region.
However, when I walked in, I was intrigued by the amount of imported goods from Poland and Eastern Europe that covered the shelves… I must return to try some goodies from the homeland! Their deli also looked like it was filled with some tasty goods. So, this is just a review in anticipation for my going back and trying more food.
Like the other review mentioned… CASH ONLY!

Let me preface my review by saying that I am 100% Polish (in other words: I know my Polish food). I’m going to go ahead and give this deli 5 stars because it is the Polish deli of choice for my family in Cleveland.
I grew up going to the Slavic Village neighborhood every Saturday morning (sometimes Sunday after Polish Mass a few blocks away). Through the years, there were a few Polish delis on Fleet Avenue but now, only this one survives.
If you aren’t Polish, let me go ahead and tell you what my favorites are here (I purchase these every single time I’m here):
–croquets (I call these «Polish eggrolls»… try the ones with sauerkraut!)
–smoked kielbasa («Weselna» is a good kind)
–canadian bacon (always really fresh and amazing)
–Rasberry (Malinowa) Kiesel (Kiesel is like a warm geletin… such a sweet and tasty treat on a cold day)
–Prince Polo (a sweet, chocolatey treat! Basically a very popular candy bar in Poland)
–the freshly baked rolls! (they are the freshest on Saturday mornings)
A couple of additional side notes about this place: Cash Only! Also, try some of the bulk candy available. When purchasing meats, such as the smoked kielbasa, ask to try a few different varieties before deciding what to purchase– samples always help!
MMMM… enjoy! As we say in Polish… Smacznego!

Seven Roses is a Polish delight in Broadway that has been left undiscovered by everyone but its neighborhood locals. It’s got the touches of a market, deli, bakery, and restaurant all rolled into one.
A group of us stopped by the restaurant while checking out the Broadway area and found ourselves stuffed. They don’t have the typical amount of food expected at a buffet — but what they have is good. Upon seating, we were promptly served crispy and thicker-​than-​usual potato pancakes and plump pierogis. Their pierogis were delicious and had a great flavor and consistency to them. As for buffet foods, group favorites were the grilled pork, kielbasa/​sauerkraut, mini-​meatloafs, and potatoes.
The location is pretty inconvenient for those in the main Cleveland area, but worth a try during a slow day. If I ever plan on returning to the Broadway area, I would definitely make a stop at Seven Roses to dine in and then do some shopping.