Bosnian cuisine is a rarity in the GTA, and you’d be hard-pressed to find a restaurant that serves authentic fare if you don’t know someone who’s from the Balkans. Luckily, there’s Mak European Delicatessens, where tasty cevapi are not too far away. The store specializes in a variety of imported Balkan products like pickles, frozen goods, chocolates, cheeses, juices and dried snacks. It also has a great selection of smoked cured meats. At the back of the restaurant is a tiny café with a limited menu where you can get your cevapi fix. Cevapi is a grilled minced meat dish that is a mainstay in the Balkans. Most often it is a mix of a variety of meats (like beef or lamb) that has been hand mixed with spices (sometimes paprika and cayenne) and then funneled to form cylinders of meat. There isn’t much to the dish — just tender cylinders of meat, juicy and moist. Small and large orders (five and 10 pieces respectively) come stuffed in pocketed bread, slathered with kajmak and served with onions and ajvar.
