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"I treat this Queens location more like a culinary destination than a typical supermarket: the shelves are heavy on imports from Russia and the former Soviet Union (think caviar and Slivochniy Sort butter), and the steam table is extravagantly stocked with stuffed cabbage bundles, pork ribs with prunes, and spiral slabs of buttery chicken Kiev. Other delicacies include garlicky pork tongue that’s great with Ventos rye, and the bakery sits beside a seafood station overflowing with smoked fish — from whole Norwegian semga (steelhead trout) to cold-smoked buffalo fish and hot-smoked paddlefish — plus several types of salmon caviar." - Joe DiStefano