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This Yemeni restaurant excels at salta, a bubbling cast-iron pot of brown gravy used as a dip for the restaurant's wonderful homemade pitas, nearly a foot in diameter and charred on the edges. Other perfect hearty options include fattah-a porridge of torn pitas-and maloukhiaih, a slimy sauce of jute and lamb that gives okra a run for its money. For the less adventuresome, there are roasts of lamb and chicken served with rice and curried vegetables. Most entrées come with salad and a heady bouillon. Open 24 hours.
One of our fave SY albums is 1990's Goo, and so we decided to feed the no-longer- youthful band some actual goo. Thus we find ourselves sending them to Hadramout, a café named after a narrow wadi (canyon) near the Empty Quarter Desert in Yemen. There they'll dine on salta, a big cast-iron pot of bubbling goo containing lamb, disintegrating potatoes and carrots, and a top layer of emulsified fenugreek foam called hilbeh. We can already see their happy faces as they dip the humongous... More »
Hadramawt is a narrow wadior valleythat snakes its way through the craggy mountains of Yemen near the Empty Quarter desert. Snuggling the cliffs like a mini-Manhattan, the ancient city of Shibam sprouts eight-story adobe skyscrapers encircled... More »
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