Author: Jackie36

So this place is awesome. Family run Palestinian food. Stopped in with a friend. Started off with a cup of Sahlab. A wonderful warm milky drink made from the starch of the orchid plant and flavored with cinnamon and coconut. Ordered the hummus and mutabal dips. The hummus was clearly home made and silky smooth. Drizzled with olive oil and chickpeas. The mutabal is similar to babaganoush but a bit more smokier. Both are made from eggplant. They're both served with some delicious pita that is slightly toasty but still soft. Next we got some manakeesh. Manakeesh is like a middle eastern pizza but it's baked on top of a pita type bread. Zataar was first up. It took me back to Ramallah. Zataar is a mixed spice that has a lemony thyme type flavour with a touch of sesame seeds. We got a cheese fusion as well. It's half cheese and half tomato sauce. The tomato sauce side has a tangy dressing drizzled over it. The meat manakeesh we got were the Musakhan Chicken and the spicy Yafa chicken. The Musakhan was delicious. It had a tangy flavour that I think was lemon salt which paired really well with the dark meat chicken on top? So good. Slivered with almonds it was delicious. The spicy yafa chicken had cheese on it and was white meat. Not as good as the Musakan. Finished off the dinner with some argileh. We got a grape mint combo. It was awesome. The hookah served there has no tobacco or nicotine. It's all natural and a nice smooth smoke with a nice fruity flavour. It went for about 45 mins. A nice way to wind down a meal.