Family Grocery Store

I'm from Chicago and tried this place for the first time a month ago -- it was out of this world! Their cevapi is better than any in Chicago. I came again last week thinking I'd be leaving with one order, but my mom and aunt had a taste and we ended up leaving with three! Everything is made fresh on the spot and the owners are very kind. Will return for more when we are back (soon)!

Hidden gem of a place. The in-house, scratch made food is fantastic and are traditional dishes from the Balkans. Some of the best I've ever had. My friend and I got there 30 minutes before closing. They were sold out of everything for the day but the owners made us fresh food regardless of it taking 25 minutes to do so. It's also a small convenience store selling various Eastern Europe snacks, drinks, etc.

Decided to come and check out the family grocery store because my partner's Serbian and we were curious to see what Serbian markets were in Milwaukee. We were pleased to have come across this market and grill. After we saw the beautiful pictures of the cevapi and burek, we knew we had to come and check it out.The food was fantastic. We got 15 cevapi with 3 lepinje and 3 spinach and cheese burek to share between us and a friend. We were stuffed and took home so much leftovers. The cevapi was much better here than three brothers in my opinion, and the price was phenomenal. We'll definitely come back to eat here again! The owners were incredibly hard-working and sweet. We enjoyed our experience and definitely grabbed a few items like the ajvar and Jaffa cakes for home.

We went to Family Grocery Store because I had a craving for cevapi which I have not had for 29 years. The food was delicious! The staff was very friendly. The grocery store has a variety of items that you will not find at PNS or Piggly Wiggly. The restaurant area is very clean. If you want to try some delicious food and shop for cool groceries this is your spot.

There was a lot of pissed off people at my work today after they saw and smelled the food we had from here for lunch today. I selected a small group of seven people from the top store manager to the lowest employee to try the food here for the first time with me for today's lunch, wow everyone absolutely just loved the food. Those who were left out don't understand that I have a job to do and I can't walk the building to invite 50 people personally and bum rush a small business with a huge order on the spot.I devised a sinister plan to talk my boss into us getting two different lunches and splitting them because I wanted the Cevapi but I wanted to try the meat stuffed Burek, he fell for it and we were both super happy with our lunch. The meat stuffed Burek was amazing, probably better if eaten fresh in the store. Burek has a couple different styles of making them and they basically do the dough rope style, roll the meat inside the dough and wrap it around it self, see my picture. The dough was very good/tasty with a bagel like chew/dense ness to it is best how to describe it. The meat filling was moist/tasty with an onion flavored meat loaf taste to it from the onions and meat filling. I'm so glad the meat was different from the Cevapi meat in the sausages, dam this is a toss up between the two dishes because they are both very good and I have made a pact with my boss to do the 50/50 split when we go here.If you have never had a meat stuffed Burek and would like to try one from an authentic family cranking out authentic Serbian food than give this place a try, even the picky eater food fu%k at work who refused to get in on lunch said it was good after given a sample of the Cevapi. This is one of those Milwaukee's best kept food secrets for sure.

Have you eaten here? If not, you should. The Ćevapi is to die for. Served simply with bread, chopped onions and a dollop of sour cream, it was the smell that signaled it was going to be good. The meat is perfectly seasoned and JUICY every bite, beginning to end. The owner bakes her own bread daily and when served with the Ćevapi, it's satisfyingly toasted in places and and soaks up some of the amazing juices from the meat. Fluffy without being too airy and a nice chew that taste like a really good cracker when toasted. The dish comes with 9-10 pieces of meat and was deceptively satisfying, even for a hungry eater.The second thing we tried was the Meat Burek. Again, well seasoned meat and spices nestled between soft somewhat bready homemade dough. The dough wasn't thin and flaky like phyllo dough (what the interwebs says its supposed to be) but the taste of it made you not care about that little detail. Moist and chewy more akin to bread, with nicely crisp and toasted golden brown edges gave it texture. Our pie was about an inch thick and about ten inches long and could easily feed two. Both dishes were very meat-centric and we bought a pickled salad from the grocery store portion to round out our meal. Ordering does take a little courage if you're shy, as there isn't an obvious menu, like in a restaurant. They have an open face letter board titled "GRILL" and then a list of dishes in serbian - there are also laminated printouts of what the food looks like (super helpful if you're a first timer). We asked if the grill was open, received a somewhat curt "of course" then bit the bullet and asked to put in an order. There are tables inside an outside to eat, and you can buy a cold drink from the coolers inside the grocery store portion. If you're a first timer, go by the pictures and order that way. Don't let the curtness dissuade you from ordering. The owners are very nice, warm, helpful people that take pride in their food. How good the food is evidenced by the constant stream of outgoing orders we saw as we waited and ate our food onsite. Would definitely go here again.

Loved it. Cevapi and burek were so delicious. Everything was decently priced. I am definitely coming back.

I had a birthday for my son and I had to order 10 pounds of cevapi, when I open the box it was super light meat like all fat then when we put on the grill from 5 inch sausage went down to 1 inch. It was all fat and it tasted disgusting. That's such a shame that they charge $7.50 per pound For that kind of meat. And I had family out of the state that time. Most of the people get sick and get stomach ache. I will never order anything from them because that's not the first time that they screw me up. Here is the picture of lalusic AND mine ćevapi , se the difference / priceless