Shahrazad International Market

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Domain note: the store’s own page still advertises shahrazadcafe.com, but that hostname does not resolve — DNS lookup fails outright.¹² The Facebook page is therefore the live first-party channel and is used as website: accordingly. A dead domain still linked from a live social page usually means a lapsed registration rather than a closed business, but it is recorded here rather than glossed.

Postal code note: the store’s own intro text gives 66223 while its own structured contact field, and every other listing, gives 66213.¹ The structured field is used here; the discrepancy is the business’s own typo, not a conflict between sources.

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Description

Shahrazad is a hybrid — grocery shelves and a café counter in one room — and the hybrid is the whole proposition. Its own self-description is “your neighborhood international cafe and grocery,” and its Facebook page is filed under the category Middle Eastern Restaurant despite the business trading as a market.¹ Neither half is a sideline.

It sits on the Metcalf Avenue corridor in southern Overland Park, which places it in a very different setting from the metro’s other immigrant food retail. Nearly all of Kansas City’s is clustered on Independence Avenue or in Kansas City, Kansas — walk-up, transit-served, in the neighbourhoods where resettlement placed people. Shahrazad is suburban and car-served, in Johnson County, and it serves a Middle Eastern and South Asian population that is dispersed across the southern suburbs rather than concentrated in one district. That population cannot sustain a corner shop; it can sustain one well-stocked market that everybody drives to. Shahrazad appears to be that market.

The $ price tier the business assigns itself, combined with a 96% recommendation rate, is consistent with a store competing on price and on carrying what the chains do not.¹

The store also merchandises beyond Middle Eastern goods — a recent own post advertises a “Taste of Europe” line as newly available, which is the behaviour of an international market broadening its shelf rather than a single-cuisine specialist.¹

Detailed stock, department list, and the café’s dish list are “. Several aggregator pages publish inventory descriptions and an owner’s name; none of those pages could be read at source on this pass, and nothing from their search summaries is reproduced here. See Open questions.

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Ownership and history

The owner’s name is not asserted on this page.

A name and a founding year for this business circulate in search-engine summaries. Neither was verified against a readable source on this pass, and the Registry does not launder a summarizer’s output into an encyclopedic claim — particularly not a person’s name. Both are recorded as “ until a primary or press source can be read.

What is established: the business trades under Shahrazad Market, Shahrazad Cafe & Market and Shahrazad International Market across its own page and third-party directories, with the café identity old enough to be baked into its Facebook vanity URL (/ShahrazadCafe/) — suggesting the café came first, or at least came early.¹

Founding year, ownership, country of origin and the story of how the business came to Metcalf Avenue are all unrecorded. This is a well-followed, well-reviewed business with no published origin story, which is exactly the kind of gap the Registry exists to close.

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Menu

menu_status: unverified.

Shahrazad operates a café counter alongside the grocery — its own description (“international cafe and grocery”) and its own page category (Middle Eastern Restaurant) both establish that prepared food is served.¹ But no dish list from a first-party source was readable on this pass, so no items are recorded. Listing dishes on the strength of an aggregator summary would be exactly the failure this page is written to avoid.

No prices are recorded. The business’s own page states a price range of $ and nothing more granular.¹ The store’s own domain, which might have carried a menu, does not resolve.² No delivery-platform listing was used; platform prices run well above in-store prices and the Registry strips them on sight.

To move this to verified: a photograph of the posted café board, or the printed menu.

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Links

• Facebook (primary first-party channel): https://www.facebook.com/ShahrazadCafe/
• Facebook — contact and hours: https://www.facebook.com/ShahrazadCafe/about
• RefugeKC grocery directory: https://refugekc.org/groceries.html
• Dead own domain (recorded, do not link publicly): shahrazadcafe.com — does not resolve

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Sources

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Footnotes

1. Shahrazad Market, Facebook page and About tab and facebook.com (accessed 2026-08-13). Asserts: page name “Shahrazad Market”; category “Middle Eastern Restaurant”; 2.1K followers, 22 following; intro text “Address: 12605 Metcalf Ave, 66223, Overland Park, KS” and “Your neighborhood international cafe and groc[ery]”; structured contact address “12605 Metcalf Ave, Overland Park, KS, United States, 66213”; phone (913) 338-2250 (mobile); listed website shahrazadcafe.com; “96% recommend (43 Reviews)”; “Price Range · $”; a configured hours schedule (page displayed “Closed now” at access time); a Reels tab; a post reading “Taste of Europe — Now available @ Shahrazad Market” (post date not visible without login). Post-level dates and the hours schedule itself were behind Facebook’s login wall and were not read. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸

2. shahrazadcafe.com, DNS resolution attempted 2026-08-13. Asserts: the hostname does not resolve (ENOTFOUND); no site is served at the domain the business links from its own Facebook page. ↩ ↩²