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| - I really wanted to love Fat Pasha but....I just didn't. The back patio is gorgeous, great service, nice drink options, all of that was positive. I just wish the food was better. We shared falafel, three of the salads, cauliflower, and lamb. I didn't think that the falafel was anything special, tasted fine but honestly how much can you do with falafel? It was good value, 8 fairly large falafels for $10. The salads were my favourite part - 2/3 of them were delicious - the tahini and the labneh. The rapini one did not work for me - I like bitterness, but that's all I could taste, the other flavours were not balanced very well. It needed some other textures/sweetness in there to make it more edible. I hesitated before ordering the cauliflower as I generally don't like ordering 'hyped' dishes, but decided to anyhow (mainly out of curiosity), and it was disappointing. Really heavy, too savoury, each bite felt like an ordeal. I think they could lessen up on all the sauces on it, add more pomegranate seeds so that it tastes a little more fresh. Honestly, it made me feel sick halfway through. Similar experience with the lamb and beans - granted I was pretty full at this point but it also just felt really heavy. The meat was cooked nicely, and it was tender, but the beans/shallot/sauces again made it too intense. My stomach hurt when I got home :/
I wouldn't make a point to go back, but if I did, I'd definitely try ordering some of the seemingly lighter dishes as maybe the combination we had was just not the right fit.
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