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Ethio Mart is an Ethiopian grocery on the Shawnee Mission Parkway retail strip in Shawnee, Kansas, listed at 10919 Shawnee Mission Pkwy and carrying the staples of an Ethiopian kitchen — teff, berbere, and fresh injera — for a Johnson County customer base that otherwise has to drive to Kansas City for them.12 It is one of very few dedicated Ethiopian retail groceries in the metro and the only one identified in Johnson County this pass. Ownership is not documented in any sourceable record found — “.

Address discrepancy, stated plainly: the KC specialty-grocery survey and the Birdeye review page both give 10919 Shawnee Mission Pkwy; the Yelp listing gives 10920, and lower-tier scraper directories circulate 10914 and 10918. 10919 is used here as the two-source majority. The block is a small strip near the Nieman Road corridor; a first-party confirmation (storefront photo, receipt, or the store’s own post) would settle it. “

Description

Ethio Mart is a retail grocery, not a restaurant. Its stock is described in the one substantive write-up found as authentic Ethiopian ingredients — teff (the grain milled for injera), berbere (the chile-and-spice blend at the base of Ethiopian stews), and fresh injera itself, which is the item that makes a store like this load-bearing for a community: injera is perishable, made daily, and effectively unavailable through conventional supermarkets.21

Its location matters to the metro’s food geography. Ethiopian and East African retail in Kansas City concentrates along Independence Avenue and the Historic Northeast — see baraka-market, hilaal-halal-market, mogodishu-market. Ethio Mart sits roughly twenty miles west of that corridor, in a Johnson County suburb, serving a dispersed Ethiopian population that does not live on the Avenue.1

Ownership and history

Not documented. No owner name, founding date, or business-formation record was recoverable from published sources this pass. No news coverage, no chamber listing, no first-party “about” text. The Facebook presence is a minimally populated business page.

This is a genuine gap, not an omission: do not infer an owner from the store’s name. “ — resolvable by a Kansas Secretary of State business-entity search, a Johnson County occupancy record, or an in-person visit.

menu_status: na. Ethio Mart is a grocery with no prepared-food menu, hot counter, or deli identified in any source. Fresh injera is sold as a packaged retail product rather than as a menu item.2 If a hot-food counter exists it was not documented; a visit should check for one. No prices found in any source — none are stated here.

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Footnotes

  1. “Specialty Grocery Stores in the Kansas City Area,” The Brazen Gourmets (accessed 2026-08-13). Asserts: Ethio Mart, 10919 Shawnee Mission Pkwy, Shawnee, KS 66203, described as “Ethiopian food and products”; listed among KC-area specialty and international groceries alongside African, Somali, halal, Afghan and Middle Eastern markets. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. Ethio Mart reviews page, Birdeye (accessed 2026-08-13). Asserts: address 10919 Shawnee Mission Pkwy, Shawnee, KS 66203; hours Tuesday–Sunday 10:00am–8:00pm, closed Monday; 4.8-star rating across 58 reviews; customer descriptions of the stock as Ethiopian staples including teff, berbere and fresh injera; most recent visible reviews approximately one year old. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

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On the record — ks.city/registry/ethio-mart · record updated 2026-08-13