Busy Bee is an old school Polish-American local grocery store. On the Polish side, we carry a variety of Polish deli meats and cheeses, a variety of kielbasa and kabanosy (thin kielbasa) and many packaged products imported from Poland, including packaged herring, fruit syrups and juices, coffee and tea, cookies and snacks, canned meats, mustards, jams and jellies, bottled water and tomato sauces.

The Polish deli meats are very popular and we do have the best cold cut prices in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The rye bread is also extremely popular especially because we slice it ourselves. We carry a lot of Polish beer including Zywiec, Warka, Tyskie, Perla, Lomza and Lech. We also have a kitchen that prepares home-made old-world Polish foods including pierogies (meat, cheese, potato), cabbage hunter’s stew (bigos), stuffed cabbage (golabki), beets and horseradish (cwikla), tripe soup (flaki), and jellied chicken.  The kitchen also makes home-made salads including vegetable salad, macaroni salad, potato salad and cole slaw. The pierogies are by far the coveted around the Christmas season. The kitchen makes sauerkraut and mushroom pierogies, which is a huge attraction (every year people wait on line for over an hour for a fresh batch).

On the American side, we carry Boar’s Head cold cuts and basic essentials you would find in a supermarket: milk, dairy, ice cream, pasta, snacks, soda and other drinks and juices, paper towels, Windex, Tide, cereals, etc. We have a growing bread section (aside from the rye bread) with olive loafs, Francese, garlic loafs and assorted rolls. We are known for our meat section. Perdue chicken; ground beef and pork; pork chops, ribs and cutlets;  and beef fillets and steaks. All are cut, prepared and packaged on premises. Everything is very fresh as we have multiple deliveries per week. We also sell fresh produce. We have a growing selection of organic products: milk, eggs, dairy, cereals, and snacks. We have a very impressive craft beer selection as well as the standards such as Heineken, Bud and Becks.

Our staff is friendly and knowledgeable. We’ve been in neighborhood nearly 50 years and we plan on staying at least 50 more. Some of the buildings and people may change, and some of it stays the same… and we’re always here to serve our neighbors some of the best Polish and American food in the Greenpoint, Brooklyn area.