GOWANUS — A restaurant serving updated versions of Eastern European classics will open April 25 on Third Avenue and Carroll Street.
Baba's Pierogies will offer traditional-style pierogies stuffed with potatoes, but will also cook up up dumplings with modern fillings such as macaroni and cheese and jalapeno, cheddar, potatoes, poblano peppers, and cream cheese, said co-owner Helena Fabiankovic.
Toppings will include bacon bits and caramelized onions in addition to traditional sour cream. Baba's will also serve a few sandwiches such as a "sloppy kielbasy" modeled after a sloppy Joe, but with ground kielbasa sausage.
Baba's will also sell salads to complement the pierogies and there will be dessert versions of the dumplings, one with a chocolate filling and one with a blueberry filling.
The small restaurant, at 295 Third Ave., will have counter service and takeout and seating for about 10 to 12 customers, but no table service.
“We want to make pierogies and sauerkraut and other Eastern European foods as accessible as having a slice of pizza for lunch,” Fabiankovic told DNAinfo New York in November.
Other recent comings and goings on the restaurant and retail scene include the following:
► Eagle Provisions, the Polish grocery store with a vast beer selection, will close in several weeks after 76 years in business at 628 Fifth Ave. near 18th Street.
► The Windsor Terrace Food Co-op opened its doors in late March at 825 Caton Ave. and East Eighth Street after a more than two-year effort to create a grocery store modeled after the Park Slope Food Co-op.
► The wine shop Big Nose Full Body moved across the street from 382 Seventh Ave. to a new, bigger space at 389 Seventh Ave., near 12th Street. The storefront was once home to the Clover Barber Shop.
► Shoe store Good Footing Adventure moved recently from 196 Seventh Ave. to the former Video Gallery space at 316 Seventh Ave. near Eighth Street.
► A Malaysian restaurant called Al Seabu is opening in the spot last occupied by Chip Shop at 383 Fifth Ave. near Sixth Street, Here's Park Slope reported.
► Mexican restaurant Papi's Grill is expected to open soon at 161 Seventh Ave. near Garfield Place, Park Slope Stoop reported.
► French cafe The Estaminet opened recently at 107A Seventh Ave. near President Street.
► Longtime neighborhood fixture Prospect Gardens Pharmacy at 89 Seventh Ave. and Union Street closed recently and is expected to be replaced by a national chain.
