North Carolina grocery shopping just picked up an Italian accent.
This specialty market has been serving the Triangle since 1996, bringing pantry staples, deli favorites, and house-made specialties together in one stop.
The story goes back to the founders’ years on Capri, and that influence still shapes what fills the shelves today.
Imported brands sit beside fresh pasta and pesto, while the deli makes a strong case for turning errands into lunch.
You may walk in for one jar of sauce. Then a panini enters the picture. Cheese gets involved.
Suddenly, dinner has opinions. That is how a three-item list loses control.
This is less about checking boxes and more about seeing which Italian favorite talks you into coming home with one extra bag.
Imported Italian Goods Fill Shelf After Shelf
Start with the labels: Mutti, Mulino Bianco, Delverde, Caputo, Ambrosi, and Parmigiano Reggiano.
They are among the Italian brands and products featured by the market, alongside imported pastas, cookies, sweets, meats, and cheeses.
That lineup, in CapriFlavors Italian Market, immediately changes the character of an ordinary grocery run.
Instead of choosing among broad supermarket versions of Italian staples, you can browse products made for shoppers who care about specific flours, cheeses, and pantry ingredients.
The store also invites customers to ask about products they cannot find on the shelves. If a particular imported item is missing, the team may be able to help locate it.
That makes browsing more useful when you already have a recipe in mind. A bag of Caputo flour can send pizza night in one direction, while imported pasta and tomato products can handle another.
You do not have to recognize every package to enjoy looking around. Part of the fun is spotting a brand you know, then noticing five more you have never tried.
A supermarket aisle tells you what is available. This one keeps asking what else you might want, especially once familiar brands give way to packages that reward a closer look.
That is when browsing becomes part of the meal plan.
Pasta And Pantry Staples Can Change Dinner Plans Fast
One shelf can turn “What are we eating tonight?” into a much better problem.
Dried pasta is a major part of the selection, joined by flour, sweets, tomato products, and other pantry goods imported from Italy.
Caputo flour is especially useful for home cooks interested in pizza and bread, while Delverde pasta gives you another route through the shelves.
The appeal is not that every product requires an elaborate recipe. Quite the opposite.
A good dried pasta, a well-made tomato product, some cheese, and a few pantry basics can carry a simple meal without turning the kitchen into a weekend project.
That makes the market useful for both ambitious cooks and anyone who simply wants different ingredients for something familiar.
The shop also promotes handmade pasta and Anthony’s pesto, so the pantry section does not have to do all the work on its own.
You can build dinner from shelf-stable ingredients, add something fresh, and leave with most of the decision-making already handled.
That is where a specialty market becomes dangerous in the nicest possible way.
You stop shopping for ingredients and start inventing reasons to cook. A quiet weeknight can suddenly justify fresh pasta, imported tomatoes, and a much more ambitious answer to dinner.
The Meat And Cheese Counter Goes Well Beyond Basics
There is something genuinely satisfying about a deli counter that knows what it is doing. At CapriFlavors, the meat and cheese selection goes far beyond what you might expect from a small specialty shop.
Imported Italian meats including Genoa salami and prosciutto sit alongside fresh mozzarella packed in water, offering the kind of quality that serious Italian food fans appreciate.
The cheese selection features Ambrosi products and Parmigiano Reggiano, both of which carry real credibility in Italian cooking. These are not decorative additions to the display. They are working ingredients that home cooks and food lovers actually use.
The staff can help guide your choices if you are unsure what pairs well or what suits a particular recipe.
Fresh mozzarella in particular tends to be a talking point among regulars, who appreciate the soft texture and clean flavor that sets it apart from the pre-packaged versions found elsewhere.
Picking up a few slices of prosciutto alongside a good chunk of aged Parmigiano is the kind of small luxury that makes a Tuesday feel a little more special.
The counter at CapriFlavors is worth a slow look before you decide, so take your time and ask questions freely.
The Deli Counter Brings The Italian Classics Closer
Some grocery counters whisper.
This one starts naming prosciutto, mortadella, coppa, bresaola, burrata, mozzarella, provolone, and salame before you have finished deciding what belongs in the refrigerator.
Imported meats and cheeses are central to the shop’s identity, and the same ingredients show up across the current panini menu. That creates a useful connection between what you can buy and what you can eat on the spot.
Prosciutto appears with mozzarella, arugula, and pesto in the Il Classico Verde. Mortadella pairs with burrata and pistachio in the Delizia di Bologna.
Carnevale Italiano stacks prosciutto, salame, mortadella, coppa, provolone, vegetables, giardiniera, olive oil, and vinegar.
You can also take a simpler route and focus on the ingredients themselves. A piece of cheese, sliced meat, and good bread can do plenty without requiring a complicated plan.
CapriFlavors Italian Market is located at 867 Bass Pro Lane, Cary, NC 27513, inside the Bass Pro shopping center.
The deli counter may look like one stop in the shop. Then you notice another cheese, another cured meat, and a sandwich combination that makes the original plan seem unnecessarily cautious.
Give it five minutes and it can become the entire reason you came.
Panini Turn The Grocery Run Into Lunch
The bread makes its entrance before the sandwich even has a chance to show off.
Panini are served on focaccia or semolina bread, with the current menu running from classic prosciutto combinations to meatballs, sausage and peppers, eggplant parmigiana, and chicken parmigiana. Panini are available from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
That menu gives the imported ingredients a second life.
Instead of simply seeing prosciutto, burrata, pesto, or mortadella behind the counter, you can taste how several of them work together before deciding what deserves space in your own kitchen.
The Pollo Parmigiana combines breaded chicken cutlet, marinara, provolone, mozzarella, and pesto on a semolina roll.
The Italian Sausage & Peppers brings sausage, tri-color peppers, onions, and sharp provolone, while the Neapolitan Eggplant Parmigiana keeps the focus meat-free.
The menu also includes a Caprese salad and soup of the day, giving you a way to keep lunch simpler if a towering sandwich is not part of the plan.
Shopping before lunch can be risky.
Shopping while holding a panino is an entirely different level of temptation. Once you have tasted several of the ingredients together, buying a few of them for home starts sounding suspiciously practical.
Handmade Pasta And Pesto Keep The Fresh Side Busy
The shelves may handle the imports, but not everything waits in a package.
Handmade pasta and Anthony’s pesto are part of the market’s current offerings, adding a fresh component beside the dried goods and deli selection.
That gives you a useful shortcut when you want dinner to look more ambitious than the amount of work you actually plan to do.
Fresh pasta cooks quickly, and pesto can turn it into a finished meal with very little intervention. Add Parmigiano Reggiano or another cheese from the counter, and the shopping trip starts assembling itself into dinner.
The pesto also appears on several current panini, including Il Classico Verde, La Caprese, and Pollo Parmigiana, so it is not an isolated product sitting quietly in a refrigerator case. It is part of the flavor profile running through the shop’s prepared food.
The market’s focus on both imported and house-made items keeps the selection from becoming one-dimensional.
Italy supplies plenty of the pantry.
The kitchen makes sure you still have something fresh to carry home. That balance lets you stock the cupboard and solve tonight’s dinner in the same trip.
One Small Market Can Send Your Pantry In A New Direction
By the time you reach the final aisle, the original shopping list may need legal representation.
Imported pasta, cookies, sweets, flour, tomato products, meats, cheeses, and other Italian specialties share the shop with panini, handmade pasta, pesto, and a deli menu built around ingredients such as prosciutto, mortadella, burrata, mozzarella, and provolone.
That range means you do not have to use the market the same way every time.
One visit can be about stocking the pantry. Another can revolve around a panino. You might come specifically for flour, cheese, or pasta, then discover something else before reaching the register.
The shop’s long history gives those choices extra context. A business founded in 1996 by a couple with deep ties to Capri is now run by a Culinary Institute of America graduate.
He trained in Italy, while the market continues serving shoppers from the same Cary location it has occupied since 2017.
That is a lot to fit into one North Carolina storefront.
You may walk in needing dinner, but do not be surprised if you leave planning the next three. A market this focused has a funny way of turning one grocery stop into a running list of future meals.