Ann’s Bakery

I was feeling very homesick for my Ukrainian neighborhood in Baltimore when I stumbled upon this gem. Beautiful Russian and Ukrainian breads polish pastries and a good sized deli. Everyone was very nice to me and my baby as we shopped. Great selection of imported goods. This will be my new go to store

Tons of kielbasa, great half sour pickles (I like the bright green ones), veal hot dogs.

I moved to the neighborhood 8 years ago and over the first few years, I tried Ann’s several times. I wanted to love this store, so I gave it several chances, but the people are just too rude to put up with. Their products aren’t unique or good enough that you can’t find them at other European mom & pop shops or even in places like Treasure Island, but the service will always be better elsewhere. The employees here will actually speak around you to the Ukranian person they know behind you. I don’t need exceptionally friendly service, but being ignored and dismissed so they can serve someone else instead is just plain awful. This place will stay in business as long as there are Ukranian customers, but non-​Ukranians aren’t welcome, so don’t bother.

Love the place. I was looking for Ukrainian shop for quite a bit. This one has the biggest variety of Ukrainian products (and not only). The food is super delicious, the bread is fresh and fluffy. I will definitely go back and definitely would recommend it to my friends.

Looking at the size of this place from outside, you’d think it was just a regular old corner store. Looks can definitely be deceiving. It’s one-​stop shopping. This place has groceries, an area for shakes, hot prepared food, a deli and of course a bakery with breads and sweets. They have natural and organic items and are very reasonably priced. It’s the type of place every neighborhood should have.

Not sure what to make of this place because I’m not Ukrainian, and I don’t recognize any of the food. Its basically a deli stocked with jars of eyeballs and yack urethras. Not my thing, but probably a rare find if you are looking for ingredients to a potion.

Great selection of Eastern European foods! I came out with 3 different kinds of fish! There are more to choose from. Good quality, fresh (haven’t gotten sick yet!) And they have blood sausage — come on where else you gonna find that? Kiev maybe. Also the staff is very professional, which I liked, although like many of these places they may be a little reluctant to approach you if you don’t look like you speak Ukranian. Not a big deal, but just expect that if you go.

I don’t want say a lot. Just check photo. I will not be back. Sorry.

The manager of the bakery is so rude. I will never go here again. She actually yelled at me to make a choice on whether I wanted her to bake me 50 buns by 2pm. Aren’t bakeries supposed to have bread ready in the morning? Since when is it ok to be rude to customers. NEVER AGAIN!

Actually, O stars from me. Asked for 2 lbs. of sauerkraut and was charged nearly $ 7. However, when I got home, something made me suspicious: the container in which they put the sauerkraut was a 1 lb. container, and so I weighed the sauerkraut. It was only 14.8 ounces. I feel cheated, and I wonder if anyone else has ever had a similar experience. However, in any case, be careful when you purchase here, and make sure you are getting what you are paying for.

Aww hell no. I bought a piece of cake for my friend (Happy V Day girl) and a piece for my bf and I to split. Upon taking a bite of their chocolate cake I realized something was wrong. Then I realized it was moldy!!! I am all for supporting local bakeries but not when their baked goods have been sitting so long they’ve grown mold. I almost threw up and won’t be back. Except maybe to get my money back. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME. Who knows what else they sell that’s been sitting there forever. :-(
I went back today and they gave me a full refund and were very apologetic. But somehow I feel like mold should never be growing in cake period. I will not be back. Plenty of other bakeries around.

LOVE the bread and deli section/​groceries, etc. BUT, the sweet bakes goods are not what they appear to be – must be eastern European style or another type of «aquired taste». Not tasty. maybe well made, but made for another type of palate. Don’t be fooled by the good looks, the cakes are awful. But, everything else is wonderful.

For those of you who are new to Ukrainian Village, this is a spot where you can get all things Ukrainian and many things Polish. They have a pretty good selection of the famous Kyiv cake produced at the Karl Marx Confectionery in Kiev. During the Soviet Era these were a real luxury good. They are not cheap, but they have them here.
Do you like Bulgur grain? They have several varieties. Ukrainians take this grain very seriously. It is fairly cheap.
They also have a good selection of bakery other than the Kiev cake, and a warm food section offering Polish and Ukrainian standard fair as well as loaves of rye bread and sausage. They also have a small section with yogurt, kefir, and farm cheese — all Polish and Ukrainian of course.
They also have the Alka-​Seltzer tasting water know as Borjomi which my Ukrainian friends swear is a cure for dehydration, and good for sore throats.
I have also seen Russian medicines for sore joints, and they have a large selection of honey, and tea.

Cute little grocery store and bakery.
The baked goods we’ve had have been fresh, authentic European style pastries that are priced like you’re in Europe as well, which we LOVE.
I also love that you can get all the juices that you normally can’t find in regular grocery stores. Peach, mango, black currant, banana and many more. Big cartons of them for a couple bucks.
They have a little bit of everything and are a great store to stop in to grab produce or fresh bread for dinner.
Best of all, some of the chocolate bars we haven’t seen since our Europe trip, we found here. Funny how happy you get when you find your favorite chocolate bar that you thought you’d have to wait years to get another one.

We shop here frequently for bread, farmer cheese and sausages. The prices are very low and the quality is very high.
That being said, when arriving there today, I found it was closed a few days ago by the Board of Health. That sounds rather ominous, but my guess is they will clean up the violations and be back in business. We never had any issues with what we’ve bought here.
NOTE: It’s open again, renovated and very clean. Stop in again; it’s well worth it.

Now I know where to get Paddelfish Caviar for only $ 210.00 a pound.
I only learned this fact because I had to wait 15 minutes for the deli girl to stop flirting with some guy. It was ridiculous at how long I had to wait. I only stayed because I was looking for whole milk mozzarella and this was my 7^th store in 30 minutes. First why is there a shortage of whole milk mozzarella? So I waited and watched the flirting, the only part that sucked was they were talking in Polish the whole time. I felt like I was watching a show that had no subtitles. I did notice she was wearing a big ring. I felt like telling the guy that she was way out of his league plus she was already wearing a ring! Come on dude wake up and please move on because I have people coming over in 8 hours and I need cheese. He wasn’t even ordering anything. The sad part is that she looked like she was in to it… I feel sorry for her guy because she is slutting it up at the deli counter. I wanted to talk to the other ladies waiting behind me but they looked even more pissed then me.
So I finally got my cheese and I was a little hungry. The pre-​made food looked so good except for the smoked whole fish. So I asked the next lady at the next counter…“Is that Chicken?”. She said she had no idea and took the whole tray in the kitchen. She came back and told me it was pork. Then I noticed something that looked like potato pancakes. I asked her and she had no idea what it was and again took it into the kitchen. Again she said, «This is pork too!» I asked do you have potato pancakes and she moved me to the potato pierogis. She said, «If you like potatoes then you will like these!». I was a little offended because I know what those are. I was so hungry I got three.
Next was the crazy checkout line. There were like 20 people in each line. I decided to go cash only because I assumed it would go faster. It did!
I wanted to like this store, so bad. I felt like a foreigner in my own city but that didn’t bother me. I didn’t like the fact that the deli girl ignored customers to flirt with a guy and the woman behind the hot food had no idea what she was even selling. Why?
I probably will not be back unless that request for Paddelfish caviar comes up.

People have pretty much covered the interior details of this place pretty well, so I’ll chime in on the exterior. Namely, if you plan on driving, i would park along Chicago, because the loading zone parking along Leavitt consistently creates a cluster@#$! of a nightmare if you’re trying to drive through it. People sit in their cars in the middle of the street, waiting to pick up shoppers. There are only like 6 parking spots or so, and the constant battles over them will guarantee that you get trapped on the street for a while.
On a side note, their bread is all right. That’s all I got.

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I have been shopping there for my groceries for 20 years. Every time I miss home (Poland) and feel sentimental, I crave euro-food…lol.
I have been going back and forth USA/​Poland all my life… but I always went back to Ann’s when in US for my pastries and bread. I am watching my carb intake, they have the most wonderful variety of breads so even health food freaks can shop there. Polish, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian pastries and breads are the healthiest if you do feel like being a piglette… lol.
They are always made from scratch, always all natural ingredients, allways fresh and if you go early in the morning –still hot. Their cold cuts are not my first choice… I prefer Andy’s Deli on Division St. or Milwaukee Ave. Andy’s always came the closest to the Christmas coldcuts I remeber having as a child.
You also must try the MasMix Butter… it’s so delicious, made from fresh sweetcream, only a scrape on your bread and you have the taste of heaven in your mouth, yummmmm.
European jellies are also all natural (like your grandma used to make and store in the pantry… lol, well at least mine did, I know how to make them too, and used to, but now I have no place to store them. I miss the old days when women had time to make all these delicious foods, no packaged stuff, everything was made from scratch, with the love in your heart) any way, these foods will not cost you a fortune like at the health foods stores.
Go to Ann’s. It’s Great! Fresh! Tasty! Food! Hugs.

This year’s Fat Tuesday Eve (it’s not a work holiday yet, but one day it will be) found me far from the large, soft, Polish bosom of Logandale (it’s not an official neighborhood yet, but one day it will be) and its bakeries to buy paczkis. I found myself in Ukrainian Village. While Poland and Ukraine share a pretty large border, they are generally different culinary cultures. Where would I find paczkis in this strange land? I tried Kasia’s (the shining Polish bastion on Chicago Avenue) and was told, «we only do cooks, bakes across street.»
When I laid eyes on what that bakes, er bakery, was, my worries about finding the magical donuts of glee vanished. Out of the ether as it usually arises (seriously, blink and you’ll miss it) was Ann’s Bakery & Deli. They, I kid not, have pretty much everything Eastern European.
From Russian potato chips to Slovenian dog food (okay, I might have made the second one up, but maybe not, I’ve never looked for it) it’s one stop — albeit confusingly organized — shopping for all things Balkan, Baltic, or Slavic (including a large magazine selection). Though the one thing I’ve looked for here on numerous occasions — the Ukrainian breakfast cereal called Start! with an adorable bear mascot — has been sadly lacking. They do have everything else sweet and savory that you might not know you’re looking for coming in (the unique packaging always make me commit one impulse buy every time I’m in there).
The prices make it such that even my penny pinching parents can afford the baked goods here when they’re in town and they’ve declared it their favorite bakery in the world numerous times (my parents enjoy hyperbole just like I do). I’ve generally avoided this area of the store since I find the bakeries of Avondale far superior, but on this time I had no choice. They only had two flavors of paczki (promising if I came back tomorrow they would have more) so I bought the a dozen of the chocolate and rose they had on the shelf. Still checkout was easy as always (I appreciate their cash only line) and I had my packzis. Ann’s was, honestly, temporarily my favorite bakery in the world.
Then I took my little treasures into work where they competed against a co-worker’s from Arlington Height’s similar offering. The other paczkis sadly blew the size, flavor, and general freshness of Anne’s away. But at less than a dollar a piece, I can’t complain too much.
I guess you should never trust a Ukrainian babushka to do a Polish babushka’s job. Live and learn. Still, I’ll be back the next time I’m in the market for a unique set of groceries.

On a mission for Kinder Eggs, my gal pal and I stopped in here, thanks to Unilocal.This store smells delicious. The bakery area has some amazing looking (and smelling) treats which I would have tried had the bakery line not been so outrageously long. This is not Space Mountain, but it must be just as awesome. Next time, perhaps not on a Saturday.
Luckily the regular checkout line was fine. We grabbed some Kinder Happy Hippos which are one of my favorite little treats and then started freaking out that there appeared to be no eggs. Eeeeek! The impulse purchase area near the checkout saved the day. They didn’t actually have any Kinder Eggs, but they had a Ukrainian substitute that got the job done, and proved to be even weirder. One of our eggs had a beetle superhero in it. Hilarious. I’ll be back to try some baked goods and spend a small fortune on hippos and eggs.