middle-eastern dinner

To continue on with the middle-eastern/mediterannean theme of the day, my friend Seng and I had dinner at The Olive Tree in Greenwich Village. The Olive Tree is one of my favorite Middle Eastern restaurants, and I absolutely love their lamb combination platter. This dish is basically a sampler of their other entrees. There's a kefta kebab (skewered ground lamb), a shish kebab (skewered lamb chunks) and shwarma (sliced lamb) with mashed potatoes or rice and an Israeli salad on the side plus caramelized onions. We got there around 1130pm and found out that they ran out of shwarma. (Alas, it just wasn't my day! lol) We ordered the lamb combination, but instead of having shwarma i got another shish kebab instead. Also, we had the traditional Russian borscht which was served hot with pumpernickel bread and sour cream on the side. The borscht to filipinos would be a cross between caldereta and nilagang baka. Think nilagang baka with tomato sauce. :-)

Now, this was yum! Thanks Seng!