Missing your grandmother? Come here. Sokolowski's will be the best grandmother you ever had. The grandmother of your wildest dreams. Serving endless helpings of slow cooked homey buttery goodness with a side of extra love. This place is full of the most adorable tchotchkes that the coolest grandma would collect. And filled with pictures of the family.....if your family was chockfull of presidents, singers, actors and general all around badasses.
Rules of engagement: Sokolowski's is a different breed of eating establishment. Be sure to check any of your pretensions at the door, and perhaps be ready to wear a bib to dive headfirst into a pool of pierogi. This restaurant is basically only open for lunch, and for limited hours. The food is Polish mixed with Midwest comfort classics. It almost always has a line. It's a cafeteria style ordering system: you first get your plastic tray, then you load it up with goodies (desserts first!), and then one of the Sokolowski brothers rings you up at the end before you sit down with your tray. Prices are very reasonable for the quantities served. It almost always is playing polka music, or has a great older gentleman tickling the ivories in one of the many rooms. You've doing it right if you're too full to polka for a week after you roll yourself out of here.
You can't go wrong with any of the food. I'm especially enamored with the homemade chocolate cream pie and the Salisbury steak. You also cannot avoid the butter avalanche, so just embrace it with open arms. Heck, ask for extra ladles of delicious butter sauce pooling over the hearty pierogis. After all, this meal will probably last you for the next three days if you want it to.