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| - After seeing the delicious food photos on Yelp, I had to try this place, and I'm so glad I did!
The place is chill, open brick walls, music in the background with loud crowds. It's a casual place where you order at the cashier, take a number for the table, and they bring the food to you. The workers don't check up on you after serving the food so just go up to the cashier or call them up. They were very friendly people.
We ordered one of each of the family style meals and the portions were enough to fill all 6 of us up for around $20 per person, before taxes and tips, which is a good deal especially for the quality of the food we were served.
So for the family meals, they have falafels, shawarma (chicken), kefta, sabich and salads. On the side we also ordered tahini hummus and pita bread.
They brought out the bread and hummus first, for appetizer. Hummus with olive oil was amazing, super smooth and flavourful. Pita bread was good too, the bread itself didn't stand out but I liked the spices they put on top. Turns out the pita bread is the only thing not homemade here, but EVERYTHING else is, which is very impressive.
For salads, we ordered beets, red cabbage, spicy carrots, quinoa, and cauliflower with fennel. They were all great, I especially liked the spicy carrots.
The falafel was crunchy on the outside and had a lot of flavour.
The shawarma was the most tender shawarma I've had in Montreal, and among my top 5 for best chicken dish.
The kefta reminded me of Japanese hamburg steak, it was good but not memorable compared to other dishes.
The ultimate, best dish here, at least for me, was the sabich, which is fried eggplant topped with boiled eggs and pickled cucumber drenched in amba sauce. It's heavy but so, SO good that I could eat this until I drop dead. I would've licked the plate if the waitress didn't take away the plate.
Overall a great experience for me, I'll be coming back for sure!
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