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No. 99 in the world · November 2026

Polish Village Cafe

Hamtramck · Detroit, USA

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A photo like it · Maksym Kozlenko (CC BY-SA 4.0) (pierogi, not from Polish Village Cafe)

The one to order

Pierogi with potato and cheese, and with sauerkraut

The line to expect: Waits on weekends.

A basement cafe in Hamtramck, Detroit's old Polish town, making the same pierogi for decades.

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Pierogi ruskie (potato and farmer's cheese)

Pierogi ruskie (potato and farmer's cheese)

1 hr 30 min · About 40, 4 to 6 people. Poland's most loved pierogi: a soft sour cream dough around potato, tangy farmer's cheese and slow-fried onion, boiled and then crisped in butter.

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