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Scimeca’s Retail Market & Deli is a fourth-generation, family-owned Italian grocery and deli in North Kansas City, reviving a Kansas City Italian-sausage lineage that traces to a Sicilian immigrant’s recipe and a 1935 Columbus Park market.

Description

Scimeca’s Retail Market & Deli is a family-owned and -operated Italian grocery store and deli located in a Tudor storefront at 16th and Swift in North Kansas City. It carries fresh and imported meats, cheeses, pasta, sauces, and Italian specialties, and serves a deli menu built around the family’s products — meatball subs, sandwiches, lasagna, salads, and cannoli among them.

The store’s signature is its house-made Italian sausage, made from a recipe passed down across four generations of the Scimeca family. The family is also known for meatballs and award-winning bratwursts, all made with traditional methods. The retail market reopened in July 2020 after a roughly two-decade hiatus, deliberately recreating an “old-school corner grocery” / Little Italy experience.

Hours are generally Monday–Friday 10 a.m.–4 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m.–2 p.m., closed Sundays. The deli also operates an online retail arm that ships the family’s products nationwide.

Ownership and history

The Scimeca name is one of Kansas City’s enduring Italian-sausage lineages. The story begins with Filippo Scimeca, an immigrant from Palermo, Sicily, who arrived in the U.S. around the turn of the 20th century — by family lore, “with six dollars in his pockets and a sausage recipe for ten pounds.” His son Frank “Chico” Scimeca opened Scimeca’s Market in 1935, after serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps (24th Fighter Central Squadron) in World War II; Chico worked the original store alongside Filippo and brother Louis.

The original grocery began in Columbus Park, was displaced by I-70 construction, and relocated to the Independence Avenue / Paseo area, where it operated for about fifty years before closing around 2002. Meanwhile, the wholesale side — Scimeca’s Italian Sausage Company (1615 E 8th St, Kansas City, MO) — has supplied grocery stores and restaurants across the metro for over 25 years through a USDA-approved facility, run by Chico’s son Phil and grandson Frank, producing roughly 15,000 pounds of still-hand-linked, hydraulic-stuffed sausage per week.

In July 2020, nearly twenty years after the grocery closed, Toni Scimeca Bonadonna — Phil’s daughter and the fourth generation in the family food business — reopened the family deli and retail market in North Kansas City, adding a nationwide online shipping operation. The Scimeca sausage recipe has remained closely guarded and consistent across all four generations.

Tier classification

Tier 1. Scimeca’s is a textbook Tier 1: a genuinely multi-generational, family-owned Kansas City institution whose product and identity are inseparable from the family’s Sicilian-immigrant roots and the city’s Italian heritage. The recipe and name carry a 90-year, four-generation continuity, and the 2020 reopening was an explicit act of reviving that heritage — exactly the “pride and dedication to roots” Tier 1 measures.

Last verified: 2026-07-11 · Source: Scimeca’s official online retail shop (scimecaskc.com) + Scimeca’s Deli site (scimecasonline.com) · URL(s): https://www.scimecaskc.com/shop, https://scimecasonline.com/menu · Confidence: High for the retail products (item names and prices confirmed on the family’s official online shop); Medium for the deli counter (items confirmed on the official site, but individual sandwich/salad prices are not published online — order via the site or phone).

Scimeca’s runs two offerings under one roof: a retail market selling the family’s house-made sausage, meatballs, sauces and Italian pantry goods (also shipped nationwide), and a deli counter serving sandwiches, salads, prepared foods and desserts for carryout/dine-in. It is a market + deli-counter operation, not a sit-down restaurant.

House sausage & meats (retail, made in-house / ships nationwide)

  • Italian Sausage — links or ground; the four-generation signature recipe ($12.00)1
  • Bratwurst — the family’s award-winning brat ($12.00)1
  • Chicken Italian Sausage — ($12.00)1
  • Breakfast Pork Sausage — ($12.00)1
  • Ground Chorizo — ($12.00)1
  • Andouille — ($12.00)1
  • Italian-Style Meatballs — house meatballs ($16.99)1
  • Chicken Spiedini — ($24.00)1
  • Italian Steak Parmesan — ($24.00)1
  • Chicken Parmesan — ($20.00)1
  • Italian Sausage Pizza Topping — bulk ($45.00)1
  • Spicy Polish Sausage and Gourmet Beef Hot Dogs — offered periodically (listed out of stock at last check)1

Sauces & pantry

  • Roasted Garlic Pasta Sauce — ($8.99)1
  • Marinara Sauce — ($8.99)1
  • Spaghetti Sauce — ($7.99)1
  • Chicken Spiedini & Steak Marinade — ($7.99)1
  • Specialty products — ($10.99); imported olive oil and dip mixes stocked seasonally1

Deli — sandwiches (carryout / dine-in; prices not published online)

  • Meatball Sub — house meatballs on an Italian hoagie, melted provolone, homemade spaghetti sauce2
  • Reuben2
  • Corned Beef & Cheese2
  • Pastrami & Cheese2
  • Ham & Cheese2
  • Shrimp Po’Boy2
  • Sandwiches come with chips or a choice of homemade sides2

Deli — salads & prepared foods

  • Famous Cheese Lasagna2
  • Ultimate Scimeca Sampler2
  • Italian Olive Salad, Caprese Salad, Pasta Salad, Fajita Chicken Salad2

Desserts

  • Cannoli, tiramisu, cheesecake, key lime pie2

Catering (party trays / packages) is available by online order or by phone; a public catering price list is not posted online.2

See also

Sources

  1. Scimeca’s Deli — Our Story — https://scimecasonline.com/story — accessed 2026-05-30
  2. Kansas City Magazine — “A quick dive into three of KC’s historic craft sausage shops” — https://kansascitymag.com/a-quick-dive-into-three-of-kcs-historic-craft-sausage-shops/ — accessed 2026-05-30
  3. Northeast News — “Scimeca’s Deli: Where customers become friends and friends become family” — https://northeastnews.net/pages/scimecas-deli-where-customers-become-friends-and-friends-become-family/ — accessed 2026-05-30
  4. Scimeca’s Deli — homepage — https://scimecasonline.com/ — accessed 2026-05-30
  5. Scimeca’s Deli — homepage (status re-verification: live site, active ordering, © 2026 footer) — https://scimecasonline.com/ — accessed 2026-06-23
  6. Yelp — Scimeca’s Retail Market & Deli (listing “Updated April 2026,” 66 reviews/photos) — https://www.yelp.com/biz/scimecas-online-retail-market-and-deli-north-kansas-city-2 — accessed 2026-06-23
  7. Tripadvisor — Scimeca’s Retail Market & Deli, North Kansas City (current reviews) — https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g44733-d25500499-Reviews-SCIMECA_S_MARKET_AND_DELI-North_Kansas_City_Missouri.html — accessed 2026-06-23
  8. Scimeca’s official online retail shop — product listings and prices (Italian sausage, brats, meatballs, sauces, etc.) — https://www.scimecaskc.com/shop — accessed 2026-07-11
  9. Scimeca’s Deli — homepage / online menu (deli sandwiches, salads, prepared foods, desserts; item names and descriptions) — https://scimecasonline.com/menu — accessed 2026-07-11

Verification

Drafted 2026-05-30 from web research; 4 sources.

PASS-4 status re-verification 2026-06-23: Confirmed OPERATING. Official site live with active online ordering and ”© 2026 Scimeca’s Online Retail Market, LLC” footer; Yelp listing tagged “Updated April 2026” with 66 reviews/photos; Tripadvisor and other platforms carry current 2026 reviews (some noting expanded indoor seating). Hours unchanged (Mon–Fri 10–4, Sat 10–2). No “permanently closed” flag on any platform; no relocation or rebrand. registry_status held at active; status_last_verified: 2026-06-23 added. Existing citations (sources 1–4) all carry full URLs + access dates — no bare-citation or dead-domain remediation required. Confirmed: 1935 founding by Frank “Chico” Scimeca, Sicilian-immigrant origin (Filippo, Palermo), four-generation lineage, July 2020 NKC reopening, owner Toni Scimeca Bonadonna, address, signature sausage, and the wholesale sister company. Minor ambiguity: family describes a “100-year history” as a round figure (actual market founding 1935 = ~91 years; Filippo’s recipe predates it), and the exact relocation/closure dates of the original grocery (Columbus Park → Independence Ave → ~2002 close) are from secondary accounts and could be tightened.

Footnotes

  1. Scimeca’s official online retail shop — product listings and prices, https://www.scimecaskc.com/shop, accessed 2026-07-11. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17

  2. Scimeca’s Deli — homepage and online menu (deli/dessert item names and descriptions; individual deli prices not published online), https://scimecasonline.com/menu, accessed 2026-07-11. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12

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