From Awful to Falafel

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Tuesday, June 6, 2006

I voted to pass over the incumbent eateries and went to the spot that used to be a combined Dairy Queen and Orange Julius (which always made me think of OJ Simpson and the melty ice cream incident – yikes.)

Who couldn’t foresee that a monarchy and emperor based business plan wouldn’t end in tragedy? Does the Emperor outrank the Queen on the board of directors? Do their serf and slaves create an uprising based on inequities of taxation, terms of indenture and free soft serve?

The conversion of this royal structure into a hut is definitely step up. The Falafel Hut has only been open for a little over a week, but they have been catching on well enough that they ran out of lamb and beef so I ordered the Chicken Shawerma ($6.75):

... which was a lavash wrapped chicken burrito with onions in a garlic yogurt sauce. The meat was tender but the sauce needed some supplementary flavor which I stole from Chubby’s order of the Special Combo Plate ($6.95):

It was laden with a flavorful baba ghannoush, an herbaceous tabouleh, a slice of feta, a refreshing cucumber salad, a couple of tasty falafel, a heated dolma, tahini sauce and an onion salad. This was presented with a halved pita. Everything was very decent and well priced.

We’ll be coming back again and report on what we candidly-ate (unless we suffer from voter fatigue.)