Cafe Balkan is the newest Eastern European market and cafe in North Phoenix. Try dishes like cevapi, stuffed cabbage, Serbian pastries and crepes.
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Instead of chunky tomato sauce, commonly sweetened with ginger snaps, these cabbage rolls had a thinner, more silken sauce that flawlessly rounded out the dish. The cabbage leaves themselves had a slightly sour flavor because rather than being blanched in water, they had been pickled. On our visit, late summer storms raged across the north Phoenix parking lot, trapping everyone inside the brightly lit dining room. But with all this intriguing comfort food, nobody seemed to be too upset about it. A new Eastern European market in north Phoenix
And if we'd had to stay a little longer to ride out the storm, I could have spent even more time exploring the attached These are all specialties in Serbia and Montenegro, where owners Radmila Minic and Stevan Panic are from. Minic is a classically trained chef who previously owned a Balkan restaurant in Wisconsin and Panic is an event promoter who brings musicians from Europe to perform in Arizona through his company, Panic Music Promotion.
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