The Country Kebab

Once more following Daniel/Downtown Lunch around… it’s been an interesting couple of weeks with the lack of bento and the excess eating out, so I’ve been able to try a lot more of these places.  Anyway, The Country Kebab – I’m constantly looking for good kofte like I had in Turkey.  Or at least something delicious, whatever!  I’m game! 

Here’s the menu from outside the place.  I opted to get the lamb kebab platter.  They freshly cook it while you wait, so it does take a few minutes, but whatever.  It smelled delicious.  You get to choose your [...]

Byblos (Lebanese)

Despite eating more than my fill of kebab in Turkey & Greece, Byblos- a Lebanese restaurant – caught my eye when I saw the many positive reviews on MenuPages.  I was curious to see how good their lamb would be in comparison to Greece/Turkey, though I had a good idea it wouldn’t be as good, perhaps it would come close. 

For those of us who were early/on time/not quite that late, they’d placed on the table some pickled vegetables and some flatbread.  The pita was thin and delightfully chewy, but cold and not that interesting, unfortunately.  We decided to order [...]

The Food of Greece and Turkey

Hmm, looking over my pictures, I only photographed two meals in Greece.  How odd.  I guess because it was much of the same stuff, repeatedly~ kebabs, lamb, kebabs, etc.  So here’s the teaser, only one of these meals, at Smiles Restaurant somewhat near our hotel:

Lamb kebab with pita, tzatziki

Grilled octopus, with our appetizer of taramasalata in the background

Pork schnitzel
Our first meal in Turkey was soundly disappointing, but we knowingly went into a touristy place.  Ah well.

Our mezze (starter) platter - hummus-ish, horse beans, stuffed eggplant, shredded chicken salad type thing, greens, and I forget what was in the center.  We liked [...]

Turkish Kitchen

For HB’s birthday celebration #3 (I think?), StB and I were going to take her to Turkish Kitchen. Of course, ShB and BB decided they wanted to come too- heck, the more the merrier, right? Of course, when StB changed our reservation, she was informed that it was okay to change as long as we were sure to be out by 9 (our reservation was for 7 pm). This of course brought up jokes about Gordon Ramsay’s 2 hour time limit…
In any case, the most important thing was definitely the food.

We started off with the [...]