European goodies without the travel: East Side store offers diners and shoppers a taste of the Old World.

Byline: Kristen Cook

Jun. 1--With its deep-green awnings, French-accented staff and shelves upon shelves of imported olive oil, paprika and other European goodies, Ferranti's Fine Foods adds a definitively cosmopolitan air to East Grant Road.

Step inside and it's hard to believe that a giant dinosaur looms just two buildings down at the McDonald's.

If you can't escape to Europe, the least you can do is lose yourself inside Ferranti's.

Strolling the aisles of a foreign grocery store is one of the great pleasures of traveling abroad. You glimpse how people eat and discover things like fleur de sel in little sacks. Ferranti's gives you that same culinary voyeuristic thrill with delicacies …