Sfardic restaurants?

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Where are there Sfardic restaurants around the world?

Anybody can share their experience? Thanks!

Posted: Thu, Apr 28 2011, 2:09 pm Post subject:

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

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

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

Posted: Thu, Apr 28 2011, 3:20 pm Post subject: re: Sfardic restaurants?

That Moroccan place in the village isn't still around, is it?
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Posted: Thu, Apr 28 2011, 3:34 pm Post subject:

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

Posted: Thu, Apr 28 2011, 5:20 pm Post subject: re: Sfardic restaurants?

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!

Posted: Thu, Apr 28 2011, 5:47 pm Post subject: Re: re: Sfardic restaurants?

Posted: Thu, Apr 28 2011, 6:44 pm Post subject: re: Sfardic restaurants?

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.

Posted: Thu, Apr 28 2011, 6:54 pm Post subject: Re: re: Sfardic restaurants?

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

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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
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Colbeh

Posted: Mon, Jul 11 2011, 10:27 am Post subject: Re: re: Sfardic restaurants?

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