Kielbasa appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Kielbasa · Cleveland
Smoked Polish-style pork sausage, grilled or pan-fried; eaten in a roll with mustard or sliced into a pierogi-and-cabbage plate. The defining link of Cleveland's Slavic Village.
Polish and Slovak butchers in Slavic Village smoked kielbasa for the neighbourhood's mill-worker tables from the 1880s. The Slovenian and Polish parishes still run Easter blessing-of-the-baskets with kielbasa-and-eggs through Lent. Today Hansa Imports in Westown and Kuchar Brothers Sausage in Parma maintain the smoked-on-site tradition; West Side Market vendors keep daily fresh links by the pound.
Where to eat in Cleveland:
- West Side Market food stalls
- Seti's Polish Boys
- Prosperity Social Club