European Delights

We are enjoying our deli choices! Polanski cheese is wonderful, zervistaya salami to die for, and I splurged on some salmon roe! We stocked up on black currant juice and jam, and are excited about the the frozen dumplings too. It’s a clean shop, and there are so many different items to try… we’ll be back soon.

Fantastic place to go for your meat, cheeses, and sweets — for your local grocery biz, they are the best! We love all the pickle choices and there caviar and chocolates are to die for.
Their customer service is excellent — they’re always looking for ways to help and have tons of suggestions on what’s right for your taste and will help you figure the right foods for any event.

Great selection of Russian and Eastern European meats, cheeses, candies, snacks, desserts, and cooking supplies! It is like walking into a store in Russia, except cleaner, friendlier and better stocked! The owner gave us many samples of meats and cheeses and they were all delicious! Try the Russian cheese, German salami and Hunter’s Stick (beef stick)!!

Like this place so much! And not only because I am a Russian and live in US not so long time and of course missing my native food. Firstly — here is a great assortment of REALLY European Delights (the same chocolate bar that you buy here, you can easily find in every regular Russian store From Moscow to Vladivostok), second — it’s a good composition of food that really give you opportunity pretty easily prepare native Eastern Europe food in you kitchen (borsh, sshi, golybci, plov etc.) Actually only here I can find necessary ingredients to cook traditional Russian dishes for my wonderful American, who opened for me this store and as me, almost every day enjoy taste of European Delights! By the way, I wanna give a good advice for all Americans who only starting open the world of European meals, as a behavior try a non-​alcohol drink KVAS (my hubby prefer «Monastyrsky» — with a picture of a monk at the label, I like «Nikola» — try them both). And for all persons who likes salmon roe (sometimes we Russians calls it «fish eggs», it’s a joke :)) try roe of another fish, like cod and pollock — smoky or regular, it’s pretty cheap but I guarantee you will impress! No matter how you will eat it, we eat that roe just spread on white bread, very delicious!

Yum! A Russian Market!!!
Ok Russian refrigerator pickles are a bit of an obsession of mine… what am I saying! Pickled things are a bit of an obsession of mine! And they of course have very very good homemade pickles. And you need these pickles to drink vodka in the traditional Russian way (pickles and black bread both available here).
They have a good selection of low to medium end sturgeon caviar which is always a fun dinner party offering without breaking your wallet.
Of course the array of goodies cannot be done justice in a review, so go down and check it out, try something new and have a fun night in with goodies from European Delights.

This is a nice little grocery. I wish I came here more often, because the owners are so nice and helpful, they deserve a lot of business, and the products are great. But I usually show up twice a year, for Norwegian Constitution Day (May) and Christmas. Because that’s when I need smoked fish, and pickled fish, and hard dark rye bread, and farmer cheese, and caviar.
I make do all year (shame on me) with pickled herring from Hen House, but on these holidays I get salt herring to pickle myself, and it’s always lovely. They have many kinds of deli smoked fish, salmon and sable (ohh that’s good but expensive) trout etc. I got a beautiful smoked trout today, only $ 8 a lb, and couldn’t wait for christmas morning, had some for dinner, it was very good, from some company in NY. They have salmon roe caviar and cod roe and so on, lots of russian and eastern european sausages. They have wonderful pickles — cucumber, tomato, carrot, sauerkraut, all refrigerated, not canned. And a huge section of european candies and chocolate.
The staff is russian, or eastern european perhaps, and anyhow not outgoing, but if you ask for info or help they are so very nice and helpful, show you everything and explain what you are buying, or help you find what you want even if you don’t know what it’s called. Very patient and concerned. They just won’t follow you around asking if you want help.

It had been a while since I went to European Delight, but it’s still delightful. If you’re looking for the foods of Eastern Europe, this is your spot! Lots of imported sausages from the Eastern bloc, pickled goodies for zakuski, candies, cheeses, smoked fish, caviar, etc. I was looking for tvorog (the Slavic name for farmer’s cheese, also called quark in Germany and fromage blanc in France). It’s a product that’s mysteriously hard to find in the U.S. I don’t know why it hasn’t caught on here because it’s used in just about any way cream cheese can be used, but it’s MUCH lower calorie! The store has a couple of brands in a number of different styles. I also picked up an inexpensive jar of cod roe which can be used to make taramasalata or just eaten as an appetizer. As usual, many items are labelled in Cyrillic, but if you pick it up there will be a sticker with the name in English, the ingredients and the nutrition info. If it’s not there, ask the person at the counter — they’re friendly and helpful.
If you can’t find what you’re looking for here, try Taste of Europe at 135^th and Metcalf, which also specializes in Eastern European goodies. Between these two stores you’ll be able to find virtually anything you might be shopping for!

This is the place to go !! We wanted to surprise a friend with Russian food and candy, she had been away from Russia for 8 years. We explained what we were doing and they went out of their way to help. The prices are reasonable and I’d recommend them highly. Nice place it is clean an easy to find. Check them out !!!

I cannot believe I did not come across this place sooner. European Delights has a name that doesn’t really express what it is — a Russian culinary store. The only Russian store that I’m aware of in KC metro.
In my teens, the Russian population just exploded where I grew up and that meant stores to supply the population. We had a huge Russian supermarket open up a few blocks away — one of the first. I learned the products and the food became part of my background. So I’ve been missing some of it.
European Delights has enough to satisfy your basic Russian needs and then some. They have the different deli meats, a variety of cheeses and smoked fish (whitefish, cold trout, hot trout, salmon) that I’m used to getting only at the Russian markets, pickled vegetables including the only pickles in this whole damn metro that don’t disgust me, a number of caviars and more.
You’ve got to try the farmer’s cheese (slightly sweet and a cross between cottage cheese and cheesecake). They even have it in snack formats, covered in chocolate with fruit in the center. Try their cakes too (shipped in from Chicago and Brooklyn). They are very tasty — less sweet than American cakes with more rum to make up the flavor. Everyone that tries them seems to love them. They also have a nice selection of chocolate filled with alcohol.
The people that run this place are really good about explaining stuff to you if you don’t know what stuff is. At least I think since I’m familiar with most things there. They will let you sample certain things there.
I really want to give this place 5 stars and I guess it deserves it for being the only Russian store in the whole metro and fairly decently stocked at that. I just cannot since I’m so spoiled but what it truly could be and sticker shock. It’s not really pricy for what they sell but I’m just used to paying less for the same items. Yes, I am spoiled.

Very large selection of smoked fish and pickled herring. Not cheap but good value compared tow what I’m used to. All the smoked fish were good but my family really like the chubs. I’ll stock up again for the big Thanksgiving family dinner.

The service is friendly, and they have some delicious sausages & other cured meats. I highly recommend going in and buying something to try. If you are curious about one of the meats, you can usually try a sample.
There is a large candy selection as well.
Check it out!

Man — there is nothing more odd than a complete throwback to Russian culture, food, music, dolls actually setting up shop in one of the most dead strip malls in Kansas (somewhere off of Antioch). And coming from Al Habashi’s Middle Eastern market the other day (a dark and grungy-​looking place, as much as I enjoyed it) I was shocked at how clean and airy and bright the store was.
Of course, I didn’t understand a word spoken — everything was in Russian, of which I know only little: What is your name? My name is wolf. No thank you. Goodbye. (I had a class in 3^rd grade and our teacher used a wolf puppet to teach us… I don’t know why I remember any of it at all… strange…)
And I was steadily ignored (and I think even laughed at by the cashier) as I looked through the small market and found items like: cases of traditional Russian wooden dolls, Russian Cosmo and other magazines and newspapers, strange herbs that ‘eliminated tobacco and alcohol breath!’ I found tons of bologna in the meat cases and imported cheeses, kringles and cakes, teas, jams, calendars of Moscow, an entire aisle of little mysterious candies.
And the bast thing about the store? Tatu was playing on the TV on repeat — maybe the only Russian singers I know, and they were on! Love it — an experience you can’t have anywhere else in KC — I’ll venture to guess, which is why I can award it no fewer stars than four (anything rare is worth a good review).