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Apple pie

Thu, Apr 28 2011, 2:07 pm

Where are there Sfardic restaurants around the world?

Anybody can share their experience? Thanks!

yo'ma

Thu, Apr 28 2011, 2:09 pm

What exactly do you mean by sefardic? I would say all the kosher restaurants here, in argentina, are sefardic, at least owned.

Apple pie

Thu, Apr 28 2011, 2:29 pm

I mean the menu, as in traditional sefardi dishes being served.

momaleh

Thu, Apr 28 2011, 2:36 pm

There are a lot of Moroccan restaurants, Darna in Manhattan (yum!) and several in Montreal.

ra_mom

Thu, Apr 28 2011, 3:20 pm

That Moroccan place in the village isn't still around, is it?

yo'ma

Thu, Apr 28 2011, 3:34 pm

Most of the kosher restaurants here do serve sefardi food because that's their clientelle.

Mrs Bissli

Thu, Apr 28 2011, 5:20 pm

Can you be a bit more specific? Are you talking about Moroccan, Buchari, Yemenite, Lebanese, Persian, Indian? Does schwarma count? Falafel/sabich stands? Oh and if you consider Italki or Roman sephardi, does pizza restaurant count? I also love the way "oriental cuisine" describes couscous or tunisienne foods in some places, as opposed to chinese or thai.

We have a few Indian, a few schwarma places. There used to be a decent Persian one but they closed down. You're unlikely to find a Iraqi or Syrian restaurants because every woman will proclaim they'll cook better than restaurants!

yo'ma

Thu, Apr 28 2011, 5:47 pm

Mrs Bissli wrote:

In reference to the bold, a place opened up that said oriental food and I was so excited because I thought it was chinese. I was wrong Sad

. There are no kosher chinese places here. They do have sushi places though Wink

.

We can easily get kibbe and lachmashin (sp?) in almost any kosher fleishig restaurant here. Isn't that syrian? The sefardim here are mostly syrian, I think. If I'm wrong, someone please correct me. What are some other sefardi food and I'll tell you if it's easily available.

Mrs Bissli

Thu, Apr 28 2011, 6:44 pm

kibbe is not exclusive to syrians, though shells are quite distinctly different by different groups (notably rice flour vs cracked wheat vs semolina) and seasoning for meat inside is differnt. Lachmajan is distinctively syrian, though.

I guess any restaurants will try to please as many customers as possible.

yo'ma

Thu, Apr 28 2011, 6:54 pm

Mrs Bissli wrote:

I guess any restaurants will try to please as many customers as possible.

Pleasing customers is not only their aim, it's also to make money LOL

. I was talking to the owner of a bakery and he said the sefardim here don't like anything different. He tried making other foods, like cinnamon buns, but there were not enough customers for them Rolling Eyes

nylon

Thu, Apr 28 2011, 8:59 pm

ra_mom wrote:

That Moroccan place in the village isn't still around, is it?

Village Crown? Closed ages ago.

Colbeh has pretty good Persian food.

LiLIsraeli

Thu, Apr 28 2011, 9:02 pm

There's a Moroccan restaurant in Tenafly, NJ called Hamsa. It's really good!

viznitz

Thu, Apr 28 2011, 11:35 pm

yo'ma wrote:

Mrs Bissli wrote:

I guess any restaurants will try to please as many customers as possible.

Pleasing customers is not only their aim, it's also to make money LOL

it's true!
my father is from argentina but he is lebanese,I think most of the sefaradim in argentina are syrians. out of the topic, I had some friends from argentina that were syrians but ultra-chassidishe ( and their families were ultra chassidishe also).do u see many around?

Tamiri

Fri, Apr 29 2011, 1:39 am

Israel.
Over the years, we've eaten at
Indian
Moroccan
Tunesian
Tripolitai
"Yemenite" (the only real Yemenite food is soup and their bread thingies, so they serve grilled things too)
Bucharian
Iraqui
Persian
"Turkish" which is another name for a grill. BTW Lachmajun is Turkish here.
"Lebanese" - I can't remember anything remarkable except the price

gumby

Mon, May 09 2011, 7:00 pm

Colbeh

shlomitsmum

Mon, Jul 11 2011, 10:27 am

gumby wrote:

Colbeh

I went to the one in LA!!! AWESOME FOOD!!
is 10 am and now I'm craving kebab LOL

here in toronto we have hamizrah also great food and huge portions Very Happy

miky72

Mon, Jul 11 2011, 12:17 pm

Darna on the UWS closed right after Pesach unfortunately.
I think they still do catering but the restaurant is not there anymore

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