Euro Market

 

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Kevan M.

Emeryville, CA

If you happen to be Bosnian or another Eastern European ethnicity this spot may especially interest you. There are unique imports including: a huge range of chocolates, interesting meats, imported beverages, & fresh bread. My friend ordered bread and some bosnian sausages for her party. All were delicious. The store clerk (although I understood little of what she was saying since she spoke mostly in Bosnian) was friendly, offered me a drink while I waited and gave my friend chocolates on the house. It's a little out of the way for many & small in size but if you're looking for that special, authentic, hard-to-find European import, this is your shop.

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Anna S.

San Jose, CA

this shop is super tiny, and is located in a converted victorian, so its really easy to miss. despite its small size (about 3 small bedrooms Id say) they manage to pack in a massive amount of Eastern European food. I was pretty excited when I came in here. Its also super clean and really reasonably priced. I'm a whore for sugar, so I ended up with a box of turkish delight ($3.99), a quart of sour cherry juice ($2.99) and a bag of sour herring candies ($2.50), for my friend soon to be moving to Scandinavia. the focus is heavily on canned/packaged foods and desserts, but you can get a lot of random Slavic food basics as well.

The girl who worked there spoke perfect English and gave me some candy when I was perusing it by the register.

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Jamie J.

Campbell, CA

My most recent journal entries:

Sunday : Ate lots of chocolate.

Monday : Ate lots of chocolate.

Tuesday : Ate lots of chocolate.

Wednesday : Ate lots of chocolate.

Thursday : Ate lots of chocolate.

Friday : Ate lots of chocolate.

Saturday : Didn't eat any chocolate. ( only joking )

If you know even just a little bit of me, you know that I am a self-proclaimed chocolate whore.  I'm not ashamed.  Yes, I love chocolate as much as a 40-year-old, mom of 4, on a PMS meltdown.  Even more than Willy Wonka on his 7th glass of absinthe in the middle of Amsterdam on smoke-all-the-weed-you-want week (which just happens to be every week).  If I could somehow transform chocolate molecules into oxygen, I would breathe it.  If I could transform those same molecules into H20, I would bathe in it.  Heck, if  Osama Bin Laden was made of chocolate, there would be no doubt that he'd be found already (although I would have eaten him by now)!

As you can see, I love chocolate.  Dark, Milk, White, whatever.  I do have certain favorites though and European chocolates are one of them.  Especially ones from a company called Kinder.  They're part of the Ferrero Rocher company.  Kinder makes all different kinds of candy.  One of my favorites is a candy called Kinder Bueno.  It's basically a wafer kind of candy and it is GOO-OOD!  But, they also make Kinder Country, Kinder Eggs (which strangely enough has a toy in the middle of the chocolate), and Kinder Delice.  Wanna try them?  Well, you have 2 choices, either fly all the way to Europe and buy them or come to Euro Market.  Thanks to a tip from my friend (Thanks Mediha), I came here to get my Kinder fix.  Holy crap, I was in heaven when I walked in.  All I saw were shelves of candy and cookies with no legible English.  Now, you know that's going to be good stuff.  And it is!  What are you still reading this for?!?!  Go get some Kinder Bueno NOW!!

Oh wait, hold on.  Just to let you know, the parking lot is small and is mostly filled with "compact" spaces.  You might have to park on the street.  I think the store might also go by the name Black Bull.  Also, the store is super small too.  Who cares, most of it is filled with sugary goodness!  I believe the store is ran by people from Bosnia and the English isn't great.  But, they knew just enough to ring up my order and recommend other goodies.  And by goodies, I mean sh*t that I shouldn't be buying but do anyway because like I said, I'm a chocolate whore!

Okay, NOW you can go!!!

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Sasha L.

Sunnyvale, CA

Black Bull/Euro Market is a great place to shop for all of your Eastern Europe nostalgia needs. They have everything from smoked meats to pickled cabbage leaves.

In particular their focus is on foods from the Balkans but you can find things from the middle east, and north eastern Europe as well.

Secret: If you are really crafty you can also arrange to buy some freshly made burek from one of the store's sources. Only challenge is that the man who manages the place doesn't speak much English so you'll have to brush up on your bosnian/croatian/serbian to negotiate the deal ;).

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