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Izmail is a major Ukranian city near the Romanian border. It is also the namesake of Sedalia’s Izmail European Food & Coffee Shop, located on West Ninth Street, just past Walgreen’s drive-up window. Inside it’s stocked full of all sorts of extraordinary culinary delights from all over the globe. |
Managing partner, Lily Pistul, for whom English is a second language, actually speaks it fluently, but with a delightful East-European accent. She is totally familiar with every product in the store and is more than willing to take the time to help first-time customers choose among unfamiliar brands of Teas, baked goods, confections, meats and cheeses, canned fruits and vegetables, juices, pasta and much, much more. |
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Having personally sampled a dozen or so offerings while gathering data and photos for this web page, our MySedalia staff pronounced everything mouth-watering good, good, good! The imported Russian chocolate bars with real raspberry or cherry filling were of as good or better quality than Ghirardelli. The $2.50 price is right in line, too. |
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There’s muenster cheese from Finland, Polish and German style sausage, tea from Israel, soft drinks from Moscow, pickles, peppers, noodles, buckwheat, cookies, etc, etc, from all over the northern hemisphere. |
Then there’s the gourmet coffee bar. Lily says local coffee connoisseurs have told her that she serves the best in town. It’s a fun place to visit and learning about foods from other cultures can definitely expand your horizons. they’re open 10 to 7 Monday thru Saturday, and from 1 to 5 on Sunday. |
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