This mobile business boasts traditional flavors like potato and farmer’s cheese, but People’s Pierogi is known for its non-traditional, crowd-pleasing pierogi offerings as well, such as jalapeño popper and Detroit coney dog. People’s can usually be found posted up at Eastern Market on Saturdays. Get pierogi ready to eat or frozen to make at home.

After building a loyal fanbase as a pop-up by bringing her food to the Painted Lady Lounge in Hamtramck, Erica Pietrzyk opened her eponymous pierogi business in 2019 with a storefront in Eastern Market inside the Gratiot Central Station. Pietrzyk Pierogi makes the classic Polish pierogi fillings such as potato and cheese, but built its pierogi rep with more creative options. The most popular version, the Becky (named after a friend who used to eat the pierogi at the Painted Lady) features jalapeños, cream cheese, cheddar cheese, and egg. There’s also a pierogi taco kit complete with Becky taco shells, kielbasa, sauerkraut, and jalapeño.

A longtime Polish community staple, Polish Village Cafe is not shy when it comes to innovating the pierogi, from holiday-themed and special event turkey and stuffing pierogi or Taco Tuesday kielbasa and chorizo pierogi to twists on comfort food classics, such as chicken pot pie and cheeseburger. For the pierogi traditionalists, there are potato, cheese, and kraut offerings.

Founded in 2014 by 20-year-old Drew Geer who started creating traditional and not-so-traditional pierogi as a fresh high school grad, the Little Pierogi and Crepe Kitchen serves homemade pierogi made fresh daily. In addition to potato and onion, farmer’s cheese, and sauerkraut, Little Pierogi’s New World takes range from pizza and taco to mac and cheese and chicken bacon ranch.

With its old world vibes, brightly lit dining room featuring a menu board that calls out the daily specials, and Polish folk music in the background, Polonia is as traditional as it gets, with a menu to match. No fancy fusion twists or quirky mash-ups to be found here; when it comes to pierogi the options are potato, cheese, and kraut, or meat (beef, spices, and fried onion).

This charming, 100-year-old, family-run establishment has a ton of character and history, with its simple and straightforward menu of homey, freshly prepared favorites, such as the famous walleye and perch. While those entrees snag most of the attention, the pierogi, made with the same care and freshness, is not to be missed. There is only one line item on the menu for pierogi and it’s simply pierogi with grilled kielbasa.

This Ferndale staple has been dishing up an eclectic mix of homecooked favorites for more than 20 years. The expansive menu can be a bit overwhelming with all of the choices, from the famous bomb burrito to pasta to hearty meat dishes, but the pierogi is a must try. Try Babba’s Pierogies — handmade dumplings stuffed with cheddar and potato and served with caramelized onions and sour cream — or the Odessa, six pierogis served with caramelized onions, grilled smoked sausage, house-baked sauerkraut, and grilled rye bread.

For nearly 15 years, this family-oriented restaurant has served up a taste of Old World Poland Downriver, offering a simple and straightforward Polish menu. The pierogi offerings include potato-cheddar, sauerkraut, or sweet farmer’s cheese, the perfect complement to the hearty and satisfying stuffed cabbage, kielbasa, and other authentic Polish dishes. The owner’s family immigrated to America from Poland in the early 1990s, and that Polish pride is evident on every plate.

This family-oriented restaurant has been stuffing and filling homemade pierogi since 1988. Choose from traditional options such as potato, sweet cheese, sauerkraut, meat or bacon, and mix and match.

Located inside the American Polish Cultural Center, this restaurant offers all of the familiar Polish favorites with an upscale twist. The assorted fried pierogi platter with caramelized onions or bacon is a good start to a hearty homestyle meal of house specialties, from city chicken and the shareable Polish feast to grilled salmon and pork tenderloin.

This homey restaurant offers typical comfort diner fare from omelets and pancakes to gyros and meatloaf in addition to a solid Polish menu with dishes like Polish sausage, city chicken, and pierogi, available in the usual options of potato, cheese, and sauerkraut. But Anio’s takes pierogi one step further with its pierogi reuben sliders: stacked corned beef with Swiss cheese on sauerkraut pierogi.

Established in 1986 in Detroit’s Warrendale neighborhood by the namesake Jennie, who lived about a mile away, this family-run business has since expanded to meet the pierogi appetites of metro Detroit. With about 20 different traditional flavors ranging from savory potato to sweet fruit fillings, the pierogi here are made with the same care and precision that Jennie put into the dumplings, now carried on by daughters Mary and Terry.

One of the featured stops on Eater’s boozy food crawl two years ago, this emporium of smoked meats and other Polish foodstuffs is the perfect spot to pick up ready-to-cook pierogi filled with everything from kielbasa to sweet potato. In 2020, Srodek’s expanded to a second location in Sterling Heights to meet the needs of the Polish community, which over the years migrated out of Hamtramck.