House of Piroshki

[rmg]

Reading about piroshki on another ng, I was recalling the Saturday mornings
I used to go to House of Piroshki on 9th Avenue in San Francisco to get some
fresh ones. Spinach and cheese, mushroom, beef. Mmmmmm.

I've heard the Cinderella Bakery on Balboa and 6th is good. I have to head
over there the next time I'm in the neighborhood. Does anyone have other
recommendations for places in San Francisco serving homemade piroshki?

Thanks for your time


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[Tim May]

Post by rmg
Reading about piroshki on another ng, I was recalling the Saturday mornings
I used to go to House of Piroshki on 9th Avenue in San Francisco to get some
fresh ones. Spinach and cheese, mushroom, beef. Mmmmmm.
I've heard the Cinderella Bakery on Balboa and 6th is good. I have to head
over there the next time I'm in the neighborhood. Does anyone have other
recommendations for places in San Francisco serving homemade piroshki?

Do think restaurants are making their food at _home_ and then having
their employees bring it to the restaurant?

In other words, it's not "homemade."

--Tim May

[rmg]

Post by Tim May

Post by rmg
I've heard the Cinderella Bakery on Balboa and 6th is good. I have to head
over there the next time I'm in the neighborhood. Does anyone have other
recommendations for places in San Francisco serving homemade piroshki?

Do think restaurants are making their food at _home_ and then having
their employees bring it to the restaurant?
In other words, it's not "homemade."
--Tim May

Thanks for the correction. How about housemade piroshkis in san francisco
restaurants? Can you provide input?

cheers

[Tim May]

Post by rmg

Post by Tim May

Post by rmg
I've heard the Cinderella Bakery on Balboa and 6th is good. I have to

head

Post by Tim May

Post by rmg
over there the next time I'm in the neighborhood. Does anyone have other
recommendations for places in San Francisco serving homemade piroshki?

Do think restaurants are making their food at _home_ and then having
their employees bring it to the restaurant?
In other words, it's not "homemade."
--Tim May

Thanks for the correction. How about housemade piroshkis in san francisco
restaurants? Can you provide input?

What kind of rope are you smoking?

I doubt any restaurant serves piroshkis made at a "house." If they
serve them, they are either bought frozen from Costco or Smart and
Final or are made in the restaurant's kitchen. For various reasons.


But enjoy your quest to find "housemade" piroshkis. Then you can search
for tortillas rolled out in people's homes and then sold in
restaurants. And so on, for smoothies, burgers, flautas, and gyros.

--Tim May

[rmg]

Post by Tim May

Post by rmg

Post by Tim May

Post by rmg
I've heard the Cinderella Bakery on Balboa and 6th is good. I have to

head

Post by Tim May

Post by rmg
over there the next time I'm in the neighborhood. Does anyone have other
recommendations for places in San Francisco serving homemade piroshki?

Do think restaurants are making their food at _home_ and then having
their employees bring it to the restaurant?
In other words, it's not "homemade."
--Tim May

Thanks for the correction. How about housemade piroshkis in san francisco
restaurants? Can you provide input?

What kind of rope are you smoking?
I doubt any restaurant serves piroshkis made at a "house." If they
serve them, they are either bought frozen from Costco or Smart and
Final or are made in the restaurant's kitchen. For various reasons.
But enjoy your quest to find "housemade" piroshkis. Then you can search
for tortillas rolled out in people's homes and then sold in
restaurants. And so on, for smoothies, burgers, flautas, and gyros.
--Tim May

And thanks for your totally useless reply. <plonk>

[Eddie]

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 08:30:11 GMT, "rmg"

Post by rmg

Post by Tim May

Post by rmg

Post by Tim May
Do think restaurants are making their food at _home_ and then having
their employees bring it to the restaurant?
In other words, it's not "homemade."
--Tim May

Thanks for the correction. How about housemade piroshkis in san

francisco

Post by Tim May

Post by rmg
restaurants? Can you provide input?

What kind of rope are you smoking?

And thanks for your totally useless reply. <plonk>

rmg, I know exactly what you mean. There is a place in Cupertino
called Renatas. ( Russian deli with a Spanish name?) Anyways, there
are two or three elderly Russian babushkas in the kitchen (none speak
English except "thank you") I have tried the meat and the potato
piroshkis. Both are excellent, always fresh and warm, and to me
"homemade" (the old ladies probably made them at home way before doing
it in a deli kitchen). One problem, I have asked the owner, why not
make a combo with meat *and* potato. He looked at me with
astonishment and said, "no, no, never make like dat" Guess they don't
know what combos are in Russia.
ps, they are also a bakery and once the owner got me to try a cheese
pastry of some kind. Was expensive, and to me, not that good. It
wasn't sweet enough. I'll stick to Wilson's.
Eddie in San Jose

[Eddie Grove]

Post by Eddie
I'll stick to Wilson's.
Eddie in San Jose

What particularly do you like at Wilson's?


Eddie in Santa Clara

[The Ranger]

Post by Eddie Grove

Post by Eddie
I'll stick to Wilson's.
Eddie in San Jose

What particularly do you like at Wilson's?

The part you edited out explains what at Wilson's he likes:
"they are also a bakery and once the owner got me to try a cheese pastry
of some kind. Was expensive, and to me, not that good. It wasn't sweet
enough."

Wilson's isn't any cheaper, especially when you add in time, distance,
and cost than Renata's.

The Ranger

[Eddie]

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:53:08 -0700, Eddie Grove

Post by Eddie Grove

Post by Eddie
I'll stick to Wilson's.
Eddie in San Jose

What particularly do you like at Wilson's?
Eddie in Santa Clara

Their day-old stuff is good and cheap. Take 'em home, put 'em in the
freezer, thaw in microwave when ready, tastes like fresh-made.
Also, Renata's has small "finger" pastries. Wilson's has those
monstrous birthday cakes. Plus I like the people there. Plus the
bakers are almost all Portuguese, and I have a chance to practice my
Portuguese.
Eddie in San Jose

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Post by Eddie
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:53:08 -0700, Eddie Grove

Post by Eddie Grove

Post by Eddie
I'll stick to Wilson's.
Eddie in San Jose

What particularly do you like at Wilson's?
Eddie in Santa Clara

Their day-old stuff is good and cheap. Take 'em home, put 'em in the
freezer, thaw in microwave when ready, tastes like fresh-made.
Also, Renata's has small "finger" pastries. Wilson's has those
monstrous birthday cakes. Plus I like the people there. Plus the
bakers are almost all Portuguese, and I have a chance to practice my
Portuguese.
Eddie in San Jose

Wilson's burnt almond cake. Ahhhh.

[Spam Gourmet]

Post by Eddie
rmg, I know exactly what you mean. There is a place in Cupertino
called Renatas. ( Russian deli with a Spanish name?) Anyways, there
are two or three elderly Russian babushkas in the kitchen (none speak
English except "thank you") I have tried the meat and the potato
piroshkis. Both are excellent, always fresh and warm, and to me
"homemade" (the old ladies probably made them at home way before doing
it in a deli kitchen).

I'd call them good, rather than excellent. I'd prefer that they were baked
rather than fried, but I'll take what I can get. The borscht (sp?), on the
other hand, is excellent. If you get take out, add your own sour cream at
home since they don't give you any. Never ate in, so I'm not sure if they
add sour cream or not.

A couple of weeks ago, I stopped by after work but they had already run out
of piroshki. I asked if they had pelmini but they were out of that, too.
The owner recomended another dumpling which was about 2.5" in diameter,
filled with beef and pork. He gave me explicit instructions to "boil for 9
minutes". Not sure what they were called, but they were f*cking awesome.
$6/lb which works out to about $1/each. The dumplings and a bowl of borscht
made for a mighty fine dinner.

Ranger, since you like Tong Dumpling so much, you should give these
dumplings a try. It was actually pretty surprising how similar the Russian
and Chinese dumplings tasted. FYI, a pelmini would be more similar in size
to a potsticker-like Chinese dumpling. I only tried these larger dumplings,
not the pelmini.

Renata's is really in San Jose at the corner of Moorpark and Lawrence.

--A

[The Ranger]

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[snip Renata's dumplings]

Post by Spam Gourmet
Ranger, since you like Tong Dumpling so much, you should
give these dumplings a try. It was actually pretty surprising
how similar the Russian and Chinese dumplings tasted. FYI,
a pelmini would be more similar in size to a potsticker-like
Chinese dumpling. I only tried these larger dumplings,
not the pelmini.

I hit this place a dozen times when they first opened but somehow
completely blanked on them being there. I never once had a _bad_
experience, either; just moved on to other areas and never missed
missing it.

I have had those dumplings you mentioned; don't know their name either.
I prefer fried over boiled. <G>

I'll have to make that concious effort to put them back in the rotation.

ObKoreanBBQ: Have you tried that new Korean BBQ (Red Oak, Big Oak,
<?>...) in the former donut shop in that same strip mall? That's another
place I just can't remember to try.

Post by Spam Gourmet
Renata's is really in San Jose at the corner of Moorpark
and Lawrence.

Who'd want a Cupertino address for their business? That city despises
anyone trying to make money.

The Ranger

[Spam Gourmet]

Post by The Ranger
ObKoreanBBQ: Have you tried that new Korean BBQ (Red Oak, Big Oak,
<?>...) in the former donut shop in that same strip mall? That's another
place I just can't remember to try.

I peeked in when I went to Renata's, but nothing looked interested. It
looked like something you'd get at any run of the mill food court. If I
want Korean BBQ, I'd rather marinate my own meat and fire up the
grill...especially now that the weather is nice. If you don't feel like
marinating it yourself, get it pre-marinated from Han Kook market in
Sunnyvale. Pick up some kim chi from the kim chi bar while you're at it.
The garlic stem kim chi is killer.

--A

[Ian MacLure]

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Post by Tim May
But enjoy your quest to find "housemade" piroshkis. Then you can
search for tortillas rolled out in people's homes and then sold in
restaurants. And so on, for smoothies, burgers, flautas, and gyros.

One suspects they, like much else, come in frozen bags by the
gross on the back of a Sysco truck.

IBM

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Post by Tim May
Do think restaurants are making their food at _home_ and then having
their employees bring it to the restaurant?
In other words, it's not "homemade."

"I don't care how much the amphetamine-driven waitress reminds you of
your mother-in-law, but if it's in a restaurant, it ain't homemade."
- George Carlin

[SlipperySlope]

Post by rmg
Reading about piroshki on another ng, I was recalling the Saturday mornings
I used to go to House of Piroshki on 9th Avenue in San Francisco to get some
fresh ones. Spinach and cheese, mushroom, beef. Mmmmmm.
I've heard the Cinderella Bakery on Balboa and 6th is good. I have to head
over there the next time I'm in the neighborhood. Does anyone have other
recommendations for places in San Francisco serving homemade piroshki?

The Moscow & Tblisi Bakery Store on Geary near 19th Avenue.

A Ukrainian women (gawd she was hot!) recommended the place and she was right.

[rmg]

Post by SlipperySlope

Post by rmg
I've heard the Cinderella Bakery on Balboa and 6th is good. I have to head
over there the next time I'm in the neighborhood. Does anyone have other
recommendations for places in San Francisco serving homemade piroshki?

The Moscow & Tblisi Bakery Store on Geary near 19th Avenue.
A Ukrainian women (gawd she was hot!) recommended the place and she was right.

Hmmm thanks for the tip! Hot Ukranian wimmins can't be wrong :-D

[David DiGiacomo]

Post by SlipperySlope
The Moscow & Tblisi Bakery Store on Geary near 19th Avenue.

By coincidence, on Sunday we had a piroshki-off between this place and New
World Market (about 1 block west on Geary). NWM's had a nice baked crust,
which suffered only slightly when microwaved. However, the canned
mushrooms in the mushroom variety were nasty - the potato variety was much
better. MTBS's version was quite fried, and kept in a hot case, and the
mushroom filling was better. The experience was like eating a good
mushroom doughnut. Overall, we preferred New World Market.

[Ian MacLure]

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Post by rmg
I've heard the Cinderella Bakery on Balboa and 6th is good. I have to

Their Light Russian Rye is pretty darn good as a basis for a
pastrami sandwich. Unfortunately it isn't avaialble here in
Sandy Bagel, 9212x.

IBM

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