Mediterranean Island offers products that aren't available elsewhere.
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Mediterranean Island is a go-to for area restaurateurs and chefs. BY JAYE BEELER
// PHOTOS BY CHLOE MARCHANT
I kept meaning to return to Mediterranean Island International Foods after restaurateurchef Joel Wabeke posted on Facebook: “Keep Traders Joe’s, I’ll take Mediterranean Island.” I planned to go when John Russo (of the famed G.B. Russo & Son Market) told me his wife Mary arrived before dawn to make the wonderfully spiced meze for Mediterranean Island’s deli case. Then, when COVID-19 upended our world, I knew I had to remind Grand Rapids that Mediterranean Island delivers big, brilliant flavors from its deli case, fresh and colorful produce, and shelves full of amazing finds from this wide, wild world. Standing in the middle of Mediterranean Island, at 4301 Kalamazoo Ave. SE, I watched Khalid 30
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