The menu includes savory and sweet piroshky (varieties have included beef and cheese, and chicken pot pie), cinnamon cardamom braids, frozen pierogis, pelmeni, borscht,[5] and other pastries.

[6] The bakery was established in Pike Place Market in 1992, by Vladimir and Zina Kotelnikov.

[7][8] Between 2014 and 2017, Sagan and Oliver Kotelnikov opened three locations (Northgate, Southcenter and Columbia Center.)

[11] The Century Square location closed for over a year during the COVID-19 pandemic in Seattle, but reopened in September 2021.

[12] Owner Olga Sagan announced in February 2022 that the location would be temporarily closed, citing an increase in violent crime near the store on 3rd Avenue.