European Food Market — Local services in Cape Coral

A Bit of Europe in South Florida! I am Estonian and we always have a traditional Estonian Christmas Eve dinner with pork roast, boiled potatoes, sauerkraut and the elusive blood sausage. Many countries have this sausage and they're all basically the same - some grain like barley, buckwheat, or potato, or rice mixed with pigs blood and spices, put into a casing. It can be called blood sausage, verivorst, kishka, black pudding, etc. The problem is finding it. Up in the Chicago area, there are so many groups of Europeans and this sausage is readily available throughout the year. Down here in south Florida, very hard to find - UNTIL NOW! We stopped into this market in early December and they could not put any more items into a store than what they have. European groceries, seafood, meats, breads, frozen items, beers, wines and liquors, candy, cookies, and more. We were glad to see our sausage in their deli case with barley and buckwheat options. We chose the barley as that's all we've ever had. We baked it in the oven for Xmas Eve and it was very good - a little lighter on the spices, but still very good. Glad to have such a store...

I love this store! I was raised by my grandparents who were born in Ukraine. I’m from Pennsylvania and we have a lot of stores like this. I was very surprised to find a store like this in Fort Myers, Florida! Very excited that I found it. The food is amazing. I love their nut rolls their meat, and they have the best horseradish. I will never buy horseradish in Publix again lol

Plus, I love supporting family owned markets . Their pierogies and their soups. I love their soups — now I do not read or understand Polish, but the Polish soups are delicious. It’s easy enough to translate the directions.

Basically, I just look at the measurements and figure it out but if I need to, I go to Google translate -

It’s completely worth the extra effort in my opinion because the soup is delicious! Quick and easy to make when I’m in a hurry or if I have an unexpected guest pop over - it’s nice to have these soup packets on hand .

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Absolutely Fantastic. Large store with a great selection of cold cuts, cheese, desserts, pierogi, pyzy and so much more. My fiance is Polish and she love's cooking from scratch and they even have raw cake yeast not that fake dry stuff. Completely different taste when you cook with the real ingredients. You get a big brick like 4 butter sticks, instead of that tiny portion (1/2 butter stick) they sell in grocery stores, if you can even find it. Absolutely love this store and will be back often. No, it's not like Publix large, but by "mom & pop" standards, it is large. The bread is more expensive, because it's organic, no preservatives, and much higher quality, it is a whole different texture, than that cotton bread that sticks to your teeth you get in grocery stores. BTW, the hours say open till 16, which is military time...