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Overview: Mediterranean Shish Kabob Restaurant's cuisine shares Greek, Turkish and Persian comestible influences. Its dishes abide of herb-spiced broiled meatsabsolute with acerb fruits such as acerb cherries, preserved lemons and pomegranate. Lamb meat is heavily acclimated and served stewed, roasted, or broiled to perfection. The portions are huge and the amount of dining actuality is aural a lot of pocketbooks' reach.

Dcor: A archetypal dining amplitude is adorned with athletic and adequate board chairs accompanied by white and goldenrod linen-clothed tables. Stone-colored arresting cardboard covers walls, which lends abyss and texture. Artistic metal sculptures alluringly adorn surroundings. A wine arbor abounding with wine bottles occupies a wall. A baby skylight provides accustomed ablaze and a few pieces of well-crafted adorning appliance add to an agreeable ambiance.

Drinks: The restaurant alone serves Cedar Brooks Wines in all their varietals. Wine by the canteen is $6.25 and $24.00 by the bottle. A different alcohol beginon the card is doogh ($3.00), which is a yogurt soda. Turkish coffee ($3.50) isoffered and is recommended to accompany dessert. Juice ($3.00) comes in orange,angel and amethyst flavors and soda is available. Mediterranean Shish Kabob offe

rs a advanced array of accepted beers ($4.25) including Heineken, Corona, SamuelAdams, Bud and Bud Light.

Appetizers: Known as mezze, the appetizer advance collects tastes from Greece and Iran. A acceptable starter, dolmeh ($5.50), is fabricated with rice-stuffed grape leaves. The falafel ($7.50) is a abundant vegetarian option. It's fabricatedwith fava, chickpea, or lentils. Eggplant is frequently acclimated throughout the cuisine. There is Halim bademjone ($6.25), which is mashed eggplant, beef, beans, yogurt booze and spices; and kashke bademjone ($6.25), which is absurd eggplant, yogurt booze and spices. Yogurt and cucumber ($5.75) is fabricated with beginning yogurt, diced cucumber and spices. Other starters cover yogurt and shallots ($5.75) and a acceptable Persian soup alleged osh ($6.50), which is a aggregate of vegetables, beans, noodles, absurd onion, excellent and spices.

Entrees: Koobideh ($13.00) consists of two skewers of acclimatized arena beef. Slow-cooking methods aftermath some of the a lot of aged dishes, which cover thearbor of lamb ($22.00) and acceptable stews that Chef Mano Alavi has mastered. The ghormeh sabzi ($12.50) bouillon is fabricated with beef, vegetables, branch beans and herbs. The Fesenjan ($14.50) Cornish hen is alloyed with amethyst and walnut sauce. On my visit, I had arena craven kabobs ($11.50): two skewers of arena craven attenuated with appropriate seasoning. The joojeh ($13.50) is a skewerof marinated Cornish hen. The apricot with gheliyeh ($14.50), is broiled with attenuated herbs, garlic, tamarind and it's a admirable advantage for angle lovers. The apricot with torshi tareh ($14.50) is a aftertaste of traditions.

Sides: Rice is a basic in the regions diet. Typically, basmati rice is acclimated as it is continued and, if adapted properly, charcoal accomplished and abstracted

authoritative it absolute for polo. Polo is rice alloyed with something, be itherbs, vegetables or fruit. Some variations served include; zereshk polo ($8.00)basmati with barberries and saffron; baghala polo ($8.00) basmati with fava beans acclimatized with saffron and dill; shirin polo ($8.00) basmati with almonds,pistachios, carrots, orange and saffron; and albaloo Polo ($8.00) basmati withacerb cherries and saffron.

Desserts: Offerings are scant, but one can sample kulfi ($4.00) a affluent ice chrism fabricated with abridged milk or baghlava ($3.00) a admirable flakey honey-and-nut pastry accepted in Greece and the Middle East. Zolbia ($3.00) is a delicate, deep-fired concoction aperitive by dredging in rose baptize syrup. Bamyeh

($3.00) is a saffron-based batter, abysmal absurd until aureate amber and biconcave in rose baptize syrup.