Euro Restraunts, delis, and stores in Chicago, IL

[Volandai]

Please, share information about good Russian-speaking Restaurants, delis, and stores here. Please, let us know if the store sells any special products that are hard to find. Lets us now the good, bad and the ugly:

1) Chaihana - uzbek food: plov, manti, shashlik, chahakbili, chebureki, etc

19 E Dundee Rd
Buffalo Grove, IL
847-215-5044

restaurant has been mostly empty for the couple times I have been there. Most of the food is pretty fatty, but it does remind me of uzbek food I had in Russia. Manti are so-so, they do not use lamb. Plov is pretty good. I tried 2-3 three soups and though they used a similar base to make them, so they taste kind of the same. It is worth driving there are trying it at least once.

2) Euro style store and deli (Skokie, IL)

Has a lot of Russian products. Do not buy "berezovii sok," it is just sweet water with a smell/taste of glue. Not sure how real their Borjomi is. The rest is pretty average for what you find in a Russian store. Their korean carrots are pretty good though. Thye have pretty good bread which I think they bake on their own.

3) Village Market place

Village Market Place
4034 Dempster
Skokie, IL 60076-2128
(847) 933-0900

This is more of an international store, not only Russian. I found several interesting things here. They have a produce department which looked pretty good. I even found figs (inzir) there which I missed for the last 9 years. They sell cucumbers for salting (which are smaller cucumbers), also "malosol'nie ogurci" (come in packs of 4 for $1, which is pretty good for me), they have pretty good-tasting frozen manti with lamb and hinkale. Meat department is ok.


I might have more to share later. Please, input your reviews and if you found something interesting.