European Market Deli & Cafe

Dissapinting 👎 Very RUDE salesperson, acting as if he was there to “teach me a lesson” rather than assist me as a customer. He lectured me in front of another customer after I asked, if it’s ok if I put my purchases (4 items) on a cashier’s counter. I expect a respectful and helpful attitude when shopping, not a lecture on life. I was a returning customer for the past 5 years. Definitely won’t be returning again 🙁

It hurts to see such a good store, once, going down like a derailed steam train. Seems like new owners have their standards way lower than previous people. Multiple items with expired dates, number of items has no expiration date printed whatsoever(fish/number of meat items) and when you open plastic package it smells awful. 2 stars because you can still buy cookies and bublik but I would only go for a see through packages just to avoid any surprises.

In case you're not familiar with this place, it is tucked away down an alley from Redwood Road, which can make it a little tricky to find. Beyond that, they have items from places like Germany, Poland and similar countries from those regions in Eastern Europe. What makes this place stand out from some other European markets that I have seen, is they make many of their pastries onsite. On top of that, they have a decent refrigerator section with meats and other items that might be difficult to find at other places as well, and the staff is really helpful too. It's one of those places that make exploring other food cultures fun and interesting or just familiar for those who already have this established in their life.

Fantastic food. Grate serves.
Love It.???

Delicious, fresh variety of choices, very friendly service.

Their Eastern European beer selection is fantastic! Which is better, Lithuanian or Ukrainian beer? It might take me 10 years and hundreds of liters to decide, what with all the Polish, Czech, German and Latvian beers confusing my decisions. And most everything in the deli case goes well with beer: chebureki and piroshki pies, hearty picnic salads and slaws. Their wines are diverse and interesting, the cookies are good with their teas, and the frozen pilmenyi and varenyki make a good change from ravioli once in a while. I avoid the cakes and sausages, although they are delicious I need to diet after all the beer and siberian pilmenyi. Well, maybe one sausage...

ITS OK IF YOUR RUSSIAN BECAUSE ALL THEIR STUFF IS, WELL, RUSSIAN!!

This store is just a miracle, there is always fresh bread... And a lot more delicious things, there are even tables with flowers... I’m coming to you

Great store, variety of European food.

Two of the staff here speak Ukrainian which is very helpful!

Love this place. There are so many Ukranian/Russian/European products. And we haven't yet found any expired products here.

They have original Kiev cake!

I really liked the store. Quite large and looks more modern. The selection is larger than other European stores. It also seemed that the prices were lower. A very large selection of dumplings, dumplings, sausages. And this is the first store in the SF Bay Area where they spoke Ukrainian to me.
The only thing is that there are no pastries/chebureks here, but there are cakes and salads.

Nice market with Polish, Ukrainian, and Eastern European food

Good selection of hard to find European products. They also have delicious prepared foods

My pal Pasquale Wong the Rodeo Clown from New Hampshire is here on winter break and wanted to meet me at the European Market Deli for sandwiches. Now, I wouldn't normally drive all the way to Castro Valley from Napa for a free sandwich but when Pasquale said "European Market Deli" I was all in! They're the best in the east bay, Castro Valley for sure. Plus, I wanted to hear about the Grand Nationals, and how he pulled Twiller Bunkinstick of the back of the rank bull, without getting run over.Man-O-Man those sandwiches were great. 5 stars all day long. ☆☆☆☆☆