Polonia Bakery

The real deal. Paczki are amazing — best I’ve found on the East Coast! Got ‘em fresh off the line today… Nice and warm. Don’t ask too many questions if you don’t speak Polish. Just trust them and you can fill your bag for under $ 20.

They have a decent number of pastries to choose from. I got a rum cake (see pic) because I was tempted by the various layers and it was quite good. The cream and the jellies made the pastry quite rich but the rum was not particularly strong/​overpowering, which I like. I had the cake sliced in half and it came out to 4.5“L x 3“W x 3“H. Given the richness, I had to finish it in 3 servings, so you could easily split it 3 – 4 ways. If I were to eat this again, it would be after a savory meal because it was very sweet. And I will be eating it again…
I also took the opportunity to try «poon-​ch-​kee,» which is a traditional filled doughnut. The filling was made out of plum but I couldn’t really taste the plum that much. Plums are usually quite mellow in flavor unless they’re tarty so perhaps that’s the reason. I found the dough to be better than Dunkin; actually, I would eat «poon-​ch-​kee» over DDs!
The 2 items totaled about $ 6 — the price of the cake was done by weight so it will depend on how they cut it.

If you want Polish baked goods, this is the place! A family owned business, and they speak Polish (but will also speak in English if you don’t speak Polish!) This bakery is THE BEST bakery to get babkas for Easter!!! I am VERY particular about cheese babka especially, and I have never found a better one (I have given up looking and just make the long drive to get there for theirs!) It get’s very crowded in the days before Easter, but crowds and all, it’s well worth the wait! I love this place!

Polonia has the best cheese and raisin babka’s in the entire world. And their rye sour dough breads are over the top. I have been going there since I was 5 years old and their products are as good as I remember them as a child.