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3109 16th St. (at Valencia) San Francisco, CA 94103

415-252-7482

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SF Weekly
Recommended
Best Shawarma
Award Winner 2007

Cuisine(s): Deli, Diner, Health, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Vegetarian

Hours: Sun 11am-10pm, Mon-Thu 11am-11pm, Fri-Sat 11am-12am

Price: $
Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa, American Express

Features: Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Takeout, Catering, Wheelchair Accessible

Serving: Dinner, Lunch
Alcohol: None

Reservations: Not Accepted

Parking: Street

Description

Truly Mediterranean specializes in huge, freshly made wrap sandwiches: stretchy lavosh filled with falafel, lamb or chicken shawarma, or charbroiled chunks of the meats, and cucumber salad, onions, parsley, tomatoes, and tahini. You can also get plate versions of the same meats, with hummus, baba ghanoush, and other Middle Eastern salads. Excellent vegetarian plates are available. Inexpensive and delicious.

2007 | Best Shawarma

Shawarma is the great Middle Eastern fast food. Like the burrito, the piroshki, the calzone, or the hot dog, it's a self-contained meal in itself, a portable, one-handed, highly delectable solution to empty stomach and questing tastebud alike. Truly Mediterranean, a trim and tidy takeout joint next door to the Roxie, prepares an outstanding example of the genre. Generous slices of roasted lamb are cut from a traditionally enormous vertical kabob and placed upon lavash bread with strips of... More »
2004 | Best Burrito

This is not a joke. It's wrapped in lavash rather than a stretchy tortilla; filled with falafel, lamb or chicken shawerma, or charbroiled lamb or chicken chunks instead of beans and rice; and tricked out with cucumber salad, seasoned onions, chopped parsley, broiled tomatoes, and tahini sauce in place of salsa and guacamole. But it looks and eats just like a burrito, a truly massive one as well as a truly Mediterranean one, and even at the Mission branch of this falafel house, located smack... More »

Menu
Mediterranean Delicatessen With A Special Touch

Falafel Regular
vegetable burgers with salad and tahini and sauce on thin tavash with seasoned onions

Falafel Deluxe
the above plus eggplant and potatoes on lavash with seasoned onions

Lamb Shawerma
thin marinated slices of lamb and beef, broiled tomatoes, parsley, seasoned onions with tahini sauce on lavash

Chicken Shawerma
thin marinated slices of chicken, broiled tomatoes, parsley, seasoned onions with garlic yogurt sauce on lavash

Chicken Kabab
charbroiled marinated chicken breast cubes, broiled tomatoes, parsley, seasoned onions, salad and tahini sauce on lavash

Lamb Kabab
charbroiled marinated cubes, broiled tomatoes, parsley, seasoned onions, salad and tahini sauce on lavash

Kefta Kabab
seasoned ground lamb and sirloin, charbroiled to perfection, served with tomatoes, parsley, seasoned onions, salad and tahimi on lavash

Humus
grabanzo dip, tomatoes, parsley, onions, salad olive and tahini sauce on lavash

Humus - 1/2 Pint
served as a side order with pita bread

Baba Ghannoush
eggplant dip, tomatoes, parsley, onions, salad, olive oil and tahini sauce lavash

Baba Ghannoush 1/2 Pint
served as a side order with pita bread

Tabouleh Salad
1/2 pint, fine chopped parsley, tomatoes, green onions, cucumbers and fresh mint in an olive oil and lemon dressing

Athens Burger In A Pocket
seasoned ground sirloin, charbroiled to perfection, served with pita and tomatoes, parsley, seasoned onions, salad and tahini sauce

Dolma Sandwich
vegetarian - stuffed grape leaves with parsley, seasoned onions, salad and tahini sauce on lavash

Feta Sandwich
delicious slices of feta cheese with fresh tomatoes, parsley, onions, salad and sauce on lavash

Fresh Carrot Juice

Garlic Mint Yogurt

Eggplant

Potatoes

Hummus

Baba

Feta Cheese

Tabouleh Available

Mediterranean Combo Plate
falafel, hummus, baba, tabbouleh, cucumber salad, dolmas, feta cheese, seasoned onion, tahini sauce and pita bread.the vegetable delight

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Truly Mediterranean

3109 16th St. (at Valencia) San Francisco, CA 94103

415-252-7482

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2007 | Best Shawarma

2004 | Best Burrito

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