20 February, 2015

Our client Inna left for Canada 7 years ago, and now she is a successful business owner

Shynok was opened in September 2014 by Inna Zapisotska, a fabulous Ukrainian cook who moved to Regina from Kiev seven years ago.

While she worked as an economist in Ukraine, her dream was to open a restaurant. When she moved to the Queen City, she held various jobs for the first few years, including a position as a baker at Robin’s Donuts and decorating ice cream cakes at Dairy Queen. All the while, she kept her dream alive to one day serve the recipes she grew up eating and served in her own home.

“We wanted to show off Ukrainian food,” says her daughter, Anna Zapisotska.

Inna explains in a thick Ukrainian accent that all the recipes originated in the kitchens of her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.

And just like in Baba’s kitchen, order a coffee and you’ll be served one of Inna’s warm sweet buns dusted with powdered sugar and oozing with a cherry, strawberry or raspberry jam.

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