{"id":18594,"date":"2017-04-20T07:20:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T12:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=16972"},"modified":"2017-04-20T07:20:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T12:20:17","slug":"anns-bakery-deli-review-ukrainian-village-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=18594","title":{"rendered":"Anns Bakery & Deli Review, Ukrainian Village, Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\"Anns<\/a>The first time I was in\u00a0Russia it was before “the change.” It was not\u00a0unusual to see dozens or hundreds of people in line at food stores, even\u00a0though they knew that probably there would be no inventory.<\/p>\n

Outside of\u00a0each subway station there were long lines of people selling ‘silly’ things:\u00a0one shoe, two inches of vodka in a bottle, a couple of pencils.<\/p>\n

People were hungry and would overlook conventional norms for food\u00a0safety and ingredients.<\/p>\n

And such was the feeling I got at Ann’s Bakery and Deli in Ukraine Village\u00a0in Chicago.If you don’t speak Russian, I wouldn’t recommend stopping in,\u00a0you’ll be treated like a 2nd class citizen by both the help and the\u00a0other customers. The Russian shoppers are just plain rude, the help,\u00a0not only rude, but unhelpful to non-Russian speakers.<\/p>\n

Why I felt the resemblance between the bakery goods and pre-change\u00a0Russia? A lot of the food on the shelves is past the expiration date,\u00a0but it doesn’t stop the locals from grabbing it up like the just got\u00a0the deal of the century on caviar.<\/p>\n

Bakery goods are mismarked for prices and the shelf order is nothing\u00a0short of chaos – with different goods all mixed up so you wouldn’t be\u00a0able to tell the price in any case.<\/p>\n

As many other customers have opined, I got home to find 1) not only\u00a0were many of the baked goods stale (odd, as it was the day before\u00a0Easter and one would expect a bakery to be chock-a-block full of\u00a0fresh goods), and 2) the hustle of the cash register and treatment\u00a0by both customers and help alike, made me miss the fact I was\u00a0drastically overcharged for some items.<\/p>\n

If you regularly read my reviews, you know that I endeavor to find\u00a0something redeeming out of every visit. Not so here.<\/p>\n

Pass on Ann’s Bakery, even for the curiousity factor. But I don’t want\u00a0to discourage anybody from visiting Ukrainian Village; the cathedrals\u00a0are magnificent and there are authentic Russian restaurants and culture\u00a0to absorb. As well as a place distinctly NOT Russian, Fatso’s Last<\/a>\u00a0Stand<\/a>, a superb example of a Chicago hot dog stand.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0The first time I was in\u00a0Russia it was before “the change.” It was not\u00a0unusual to see dozens or hundreds of people in line at food stores, even\u00a0though they knew that probably there would be no inventory. Outside of\u00a0each subway station there were long lines of people selling ‘silly’ things:\u00a0one shoe, two inches of vodka in… Continue reading Anns Bakery & Deli Review, Ukrainian Village, Chicago<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,16,26],"tags":[929,949],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18594"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}