Middle Eastern

Café Istanbul

This ‘every­thing from scratch, made by fam­ily’ café is also a gro­cery store and deli, offer­ing pick­led and canned bulk, most with labels indis­cernible to English-only speakers.

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Saffron Café

Authentic-ass Per­sian. Fla­vor­ful meat, top notch rice, and good spices. Try the filet mignon kebabs, or bone-in lamb shank (made with all-New Mex­i­can lamb!).

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Yasmine's Mediterranean Café

Yasmine's Mediterranean Café

Still one of our favorite Mid­dle East­ern haunts, fea­tur­ing those amaz­ing falafel sand­wiches, great spaniko­pita, and deeply sat­is­fy­ing gyros. Don’t mind the cafe­te­ria atmos­phere, and don’t miss the home­made pastries.

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Zohra

Zohra

Greet Zohra and Bruce and pon­der deli­cious Afghan, Greek, Amer­i­can and New Mex­i­can options. The gyros and falafel sand­wiches are excel­lent, and Adam lived on the $3 break­fast bur­rito (wheat or sun­dried tomato tor­tilla) for 3 months.

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