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Tag: Middle Eastern food
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Generous is the word at Albany Park’s Karam Grill
Look beyond the grill at this newish Middle Eastern spot.
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Enemy Kitchen, a food truck and public art project, serves up hospitality in place of hostility
Michael Rakowitz’s family recipes are bringing Iraqis and Americans together for free meals in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Plan a pilgrimage to Al-Sufara Grills for live charcoal action
This Palos Heights butchery does meze as good as its kebabs.
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A suburban strip mall is home to Pita Alsharq’s fluffy falafel
A suburban strip mall does it again.
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Albany Park’s Pita Puff doesn’t need belly dancers and disco balls
The Albany Park spot has fresh, ample, budget-friendly Middle Eastern food.
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Out of fraternal discord comes Kabobi Grill
A new Albany Park Persian restaurant challenges Noon-O-Kabob’s hegemony.
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Vote, for 20 percent off at Semiramis
The Albany Park Lebanese restaurant offers a discount for voters
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One Bite: makdous at Al Bawadi Grill
Don’t skip the stuffed oil-cured baby eggplants when you go for kebab at this Bridgeview destination
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In the Nut House
A suburban strip-mall nut shop is the Baskin-Robbins of Turkish Delight
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Resurrected: Al-Khaymeih
After a bitter lawsuit between brothers, a favorite Albany Park Middle Eastern restaurant reopened this week
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Key Ingredient: dried limes
Challenged with Middle Eastern dried limes, Iliana Regan of One Sister improvises a panna cotta dessert
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At Sheeba, an underrepresented cuisine, represented
At Bridgeview’s Sheeba, the Aljahmi brothers turn out authentic Yemeni cuisine
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One bite: turshi amba
Around these parts, torshi (or turshi, tursu, etc) is most often seen as that little dish of tiny green olives and fuschia-colored turnips that precedes the meal in certain Middle Eastern restaurants. But torshi is really just the umbrella term for an infinite variety of mixed pickled vegetables. It’s the giardiniera of the Levant. There […]
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David Hammond on Bridgeview’s Al Bawadi Grill
David Hammond gets his kebab on at Bridgeview’s expanding Al Bawadi Grill.