Metro, and some of its fans, claim the coarse-cut kielbasa is the city's best. Without a side-by-side test of all of them, I would never dare name a single best (if then), but it is certainly way up there -- moist, fragrant, even elegant, one might say. Equally elegant are the superb ham sausage and the fine, pale krakowska salami. The skinny kabanosy meat stick and its plumper cousin, the mysliweska hunter sausage, are both drier and smokier than the above, and if you're open to head cheese that is heady with garlic, the glittery, meaty aspic comes either in slices or blocks.
The North End is also where to find some of our province's most renowned products. Gimli Fish Market, for instance, stocks freshly smoked goldeye, as well as smoked trout and whitefish. But when it comes to elegan...