Best Pierogis - St. Andrews Ukrainian Church Bloomingdale

This place makes and serves some of the best peirogi and eastern European food around.

Everything is prepared by the St. Sophia Sisterhood and the St. Andrew Brotherhood. Food is sold out of the Kitchen on Saturdays from 8am until 2pm, but you will want to arrive early or pre-order to guarantee you get what you want.

Their menu isn't huge, but there is a decent assortment and it makes ordering very simple. They offer 1 Dozen Pierogi/Varenyky/Pelmeni in Potato, Cheese or Sauerkraut for $5.

You can also order 2 Kielbasa links for $8 or Stuffed Cabbage Rolls/Holubtsi/vGolabki/Golubtsy/Sarma for $2.
Kolachky are 50c each and come in different flavors. They also make fresh White Bread and Rye Bread and sell Honey from a farm. There are specialty items (Smoked Bacon, European-style cakes, etc) on sale for holiday events.

Info on website towards the bottom ..http://en.standrewuoc.com/

St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Church
300 E Army Trail Rd
Bloomingdale, IL 60108

Phone number (630) 893-2827

HI,

Thank you, Jane Franklin for posting on this.

If you are travelling on 355 on a Saturday between 8 am and 2 pm, this is an easy-on and -off location. Located just one-half mile west of 355 on the south side of the street, this church is an easily seen landmark. The food sales are across the driveway in a multi-purpose building. All sales are cash only, which benefit their church.

These are indeed the best handmade pierogi, especially for six dollars a dozen. We were impressed by the tenderness of the outer shell, because sometimes it can be rubbery. These come in three varieties: a lightly sweetened cheese (could be used for dessert with a fruit sauce), potato and sauerkraut. I overheard last week, they have offered meat. If you call a week in advance, they might have meat available.

Church volunteers make the fillings on Friday. On Saturday, they assemble and cook the pierogi. You pick them up hot to take home. Just before Easter, they were also offering frozen.

Two-12-ounce smoked Polish sausages for $9. They are fully cooked, thus you may eat them out of hand or use for cooking later.

They have meat and rice filled stuffed cabbage for $2. each. My Dad loved these, I was not as smitten. Rice and tomato dominate the filling, I had to ask if there was really meat. I suggest buying at least one to see if you like it.

Tender and lightly sweet kolaches are offered for 75 cents each, though they do run out as the day progresses.

They offer Ukrainian rye bread for $4, which you may want to try. It was a bit light on the rye flavor for my family.

I visited the day before Easter, when they had their Easter Bazaar. They had a broader range of baked goods: fruit and poppy seed filled cakes and cookies, meat or cabbage filled pieroshki and three sizes of babkas: jumbo, family and individual. All were priced reasonably with the option to buy whole or slices.

They also had smoke ham and bacon made for them by a Carol Stream butcher.

While they encourage ordering in advance, I have come twice to buy on the spot. On my first visit, people were ordering for Easter. I learned they might not take phone orders, because they were already heavily committed. Phoning an order the week of important religious holiday may be too late.

I certainly hope this weekly benefit is as successful as the church benefit donuts sold at the Oak Park farmer's market.

Regards,

Hi,

Today I arrived just after 1:00 pm, there were out of stuffed cabbage, bread and sausage.

They had blueberry Varenyky/pierogi today. Each were filled with four or five large blueberries. I order these in addition to potato, cheese and sauerkraut pierogi.

I also bought six Kolacky, too.

Mom2 is very, very pleased with their food.

Regards,

I stopped few weeks ago but I called before to order two dozen pierogis, 4 cabbage rolls, sausage and bread.
They were out of bread for my order when I arrived at 9am.
I had two potato pierogis for breakfast also.
Nice homemade quality, certainly I like this better than some frozen product at your local mart.
They had the cabbage rolls refridgerated for me as they don;t freeze well but you can get the pierogis frozen and just put in boling water at home. Sausage was good.-Richard

Hi,

I phoned in my order for lunch on Saturday: Potato, cheese and fruit pierogi. They were not sure if they would have blueberry and/or apple. I ordered one dozen each of whatever fruit dumplings they have.

I also ordered a dozen each of potato and cheese, which are frozen and ready for Christmas Eve.

They will have their Christmas bazaar on Saturday, where you can pick up additional baked goods.

My order placed yesterday will be picked up at noon on Saturday. They were not keen for me to arrive earlier due to prior orders. If you want some, you need to order sooner rather than later.

Regards,

HI,

I collected my six dozen pierogi at noon on Saturday. By ordering everything in advance, everything was already packed and ready to go. Those who ordered on the spot had to wait an hour.

There two fruit variants available: blueberry and apple. The blueberries were put in whole into the dumpling. The apple had chopped fresh apple mixed in with cooked apple.

There was a bake sale of various meat and cabbage pies, traditional Ukrainian and some American baked goods.

If this were not a pick up just before a major holiday, I would have simply showed up. Only once did I come late enough they needed to cook the pierogi to order, which took no more than 10 minutes.

I don't do top 10 lists, though I do consider this post one of the most useful to me personally for this year.

Regards,