Miami's Only Polish Market Is Stocked With Strong Beer and Spicy Sausages
If it can be put in a pierogi, they've got it
Anytime a beer has a herd of thundering bison on the label, it’s probably not the kind of thing you drink while mowing your lawn. Just to make sure, I asked the muscular, bald man behind the counter at Warsaw Grocery what kind of beer it was. He looked me dead in the eyes and said, without a hint of expression, “Is strong beer.” I got the sense this beer could probably kill Apollo Creed.
The bison beer was one of many fascinating foreign products I found at Warsaw Grocery, a literal mom-and-pop Polish grocery story on the Coral Gables side of Calle Ocho. It’s run by Klaudia and Adrian Saczek, a Polish couple who between stocking pierogi, spicy sausages, and fresh-baked European breads, chase their toddler around the store. It’s the kind of place you wander into with zero intention of buying anything, and leave with two jars of herring. Such is the charm - and cultural education – you find in Miami’s only Polish market.
