GREENPOINT BROOKLYN

Our first restaurant meal (after 10 days of driving cross country and eating at randome restaurants) was an authentic POLISH place in Greenpoint Brooklyn. Lucas is Polish and everytime we come to NY, Greenpoint is an essential on our to do list. If you like Polish Food,and cheap prices on groceries, then this is the place to go. Greenpoint (Manhattan Ave to Nassau Street) is populated with about 70% Polish people and the rest are young artistic types. It has about 25 polish delis, over 30 Polish restauarants that are all casual, dives I should say, but very homey, very clean and you feel like you are in Krakow. My favorite restaurant in Greenpoint so far (I have only tried 3) is a very small, completely bar bones place called BASIA RESTAURANT at 167 Nassau. Its sort of cafeteria style and there is a huge board that had about 30 different things to chose from. Everything is under $8, and the entrees come with your choice of two different Polish salads as red beet salad with onions, Cole slaw, sauerkraut,shaved apples and carrots or green salad. We go to Basia for their very thinly sliced pork cutlet and a side of a grain called Kashia. You can get boiled potatoes if you don't like Kashia, but it tastes like brown rice to me and its very healthy. The food is very fresh, clean and very good. When you walk in, you will think what is she thinking...but the minute you take your first bite of the pork cutlet or the red beet soup, and the fresh prepared sauerkraut, you will get what I am saying. Lucas mom has not been here so I can't wait for her to come visit and so we can take her here and see what she thinks. She is a great cook and so will be interested to see in what she has to say.
After the meal, we usually got to W-NASSAU MEAT MARKET where they have homemade cold cuts and Kielbasy. The black forest ham and the Kielasy is AMAZING. Not like an American Deli, but its seriously fresh and the ham looks like it just got out of the oven. There are over 6 kinds of homeade Kielasy, since its a busy store, and the meat moves daily, its super fresh. Its located at 915 Manhattan Ave.