Location: Two rows of buildings in front of the Abu Dhabi Dental Clinic
Telephone: 02-6318332
I come from a family of bread-eaters. Seriously. At a fairly small family gathering a few years ago (15 people) we ate an Italian restaurant out of bread over dinner. While New York is a great place to get bread of all types, one area it is weak in is Middle Eastern bread - pita, in all of its regional variations, is often stale and limpless. One would hope one can find better here. So, when wandering around, you can imagine the excitement when I walked past (but more importantly, smelled) Abu Waqas bakery. The make one and only one kind of bread - a round bread about 12 inches in diameter, fairly thin but soft and fluffy, with holes, made out of a whole wheat dough. They cook it to order in an amazing looking clay pit oven, and it only takes a couple of minutes. It tastes very good, and it actually keeps at least a day (it didn't last longer than that). And best of all, it was 1 AED. Will be going back.
Showing posts with label Middle Eastern. Show all posts
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17 September 2010
22 August 2010
Tarbouche
Location: Across Hamdan Street from the Home Centre at the Liwa Centre
Telephone: 6260700 / 6260701
I know, Middle Eastern fare (kebabs, falafel, shwarma) is almost a dime a dozen here, but passing by a large window which features large spits of chicken and lamb rotating on a skewer is very difficult when hungry and thirsty from walking in the humid and hot sun. This is a small two story restaurant, with a take-out counter on the bottom floor and seating on the top floor. The standard bowl of pickled items (cucumbers, chili peppers, carrots) were tasty and nicely sour, and the provided pita was fresh and very thin. We split the Hummus w/ Shawarma plate (25 DHS) and the Kabab Kofta (22 DHS). Both we quite large, and could easily feed 1.5 hungry people. The hummus was tasty, without any spice dominating the others, and both the chicken and lamb shawarma were quite moist though not heavily spiced. The Kabab Kofta plate has five long rolls of grilled ground lamb, and came with grilled tomatoes, grilled small onions, and a side plate of greens, raw lemon, and raw tomato. The Kababs were also moist, with nice char marks, though I would have preferred them a little more heavily spiced, and the condiments were nice as well. Service was fast and friendly, the A/C was very refreshing after walking in the heat, and the restaurant was fairly clean. All in all, a satisfying meal, and a lot of food for a very reasonable price.
Telephone: 6260700 / 6260701
I know, Middle Eastern fare (kebabs, falafel, shwarma) is almost a dime a dozen here, but passing by a large window which features large spits of chicken and lamb rotating on a skewer is very difficult when hungry and thirsty from walking in the humid and hot sun. This is a small two story restaurant, with a take-out counter on the bottom floor and seating on the top floor. The standard bowl of pickled items (cucumbers, chili peppers, carrots) were tasty and nicely sour, and the provided pita was fresh and very thin. We split the Hummus w/ Shawarma plate (25 DHS) and the Kabab Kofta (22 DHS). Both we quite large, and could easily feed 1.5 hungry people. The hummus was tasty, without any spice dominating the others, and both the chicken and lamb shawarma were quite moist though not heavily spiced. The Kabab Kofta plate has five long rolls of grilled ground lamb, and came with grilled tomatoes, grilled small onions, and a side plate of greens, raw lemon, and raw tomato. The Kababs were also moist, with nice char marks, though I would have preferred them a little more heavily spiced, and the condiments were nice as well. Service was fast and friendly, the A/C was very refreshing after walking in the heat, and the restaurant was fairly clean. All in all, a satisfying meal, and a lot of food for a very reasonable price.
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