We were in New West before our massages so we were ready to try a new spot for lunch. We decided to try out Solodko Ukrainian Bakery.
They have a second location in Vancouver (on Victoria Drive under Kozak Ukrainian Eatery). I’m confused by the two different names but clearly, it’s owned by the same people.
Signs outside beckoning you in.
Interesting that they make challah (only offered on Friday).
We dropped in on a Saturday afternoon (around 1:00pm). The inside is small with seats for only 10 people. Surprised how busy this place was; a constant line of people coming in. It took about 15 minutes or so to get our food.
The menu is split into soup, cabbage rolls, pierogi, rolled crepes and a lunch combo.
Drink menu uses coffee beans from Parallel 49th.
Bread counter (sourdough and brioche buns) along with a few pastries and piroshki.
Closeup of their pastries available.
Closeup of their piroshki options.
They also offer everything in bulk to buy for home
Literally, borsch by the bucket.
Cabbage rolls by the kilo.
Pierogi (meat & onion) in the fridge.
Like I said, all the things in bulk.
Ukrainian latte ($4.25)
With condensed milk and baked milk. This was quite tasty and much sweeter than your usual latte. I’m no coffee drinker but I could get used to drinking these.
Hungry tato’s lunch combo ($14.00)
Borsch (small), 2 potato varenvyky, 2 holubtsi and a naltstnyky. Their combo is pricey for what you get but this let us almost everything on their menu.
The borsch was the best part of the combo (minus the pork meat which was dry).
I like how they put fresh dill in the soup and on top of the cabbage rolls.
Good mix of vegetables and flavour to the soup. The pierogi (pork and onion filled) had a good bite to the skin.
The cabbage rolls were too one dimensional in texture.
The meat was grinded up so fine that the texture was soft and the cabbage itself had no bite.
The rolled crepe was okay but quite sweet.
Potato and dill piroshki ($3.50)
They warm this up for you if you stay but we took this for a snack later. Eating at warm makes all the difference (we tried both ways). It remind me of a Chinese bun but with dill and potato filling inside. Good but worth $3.50? Eh…
Solodko was decent but doesn’t beat out the other Ukrainian spots we’ve tried so far in town.
Solodko Ukrainian Bakery
https://kozakeatery.business.site/
444 Sixth Street
New Westminster, BC
(778) 955-9135
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