Panaderia y Confiteria Medio Oriente — Restaurant in Autonomous City of Buenos Aires

I only rate the food. I share my experience in the review I have been living across from this little quaint neighborhood restaurant for the past month and haven’t visited until today. What a regret! This place feels like family. People walking in and out, talking to the owners and cooks; it feels like home. It’s very small with standing tables only, but has all of the things you want in a middle eastern shop. We ordered their their only two hot sandwiches, shawarma and falafel, and they were both simple and delicious. The falafel was hot, smooth, flavorful. The shawarma was tender and delicious. Pita is fresh! Hummus is great. Onions are seasoned!!! Just a perfect afternoon delight and at 14:30, we got the LAST of it, so arrive early. I do wish they had some sort of creamy garlic sauce, but that’s personal. The little sweets were equally as pleasant. We got the powdered cookies, one with spiced walnuts (I think) inside and they were perfectly sweet, crunchy and flavorful. We also picked up some dolmades from their cold fridge (which has TONS of food), so I’m looking forward to those later. But all of that for $3700! If you’re in the neighborhood, don’t...

So, so, soooo many nice things! Plus the proprietor was so helpful! They have bulk spices for good prices, some dried dahls and lots of lovely bakery items à la Arabica. Plus a refrigerated section of lovely hummus, Kafta, taboulhi, Mante, (mini raviolis you take home and cook in soup broth) and a ton of other arabic-style foods and ingredients.

They told us how to prepare and serve everything at home. The owner urged us to come back at noon the next day when they would have falafel and kebabs made hot, « pour manger sur la puce ». (To eat on the run).

When I inquired about everyone walking out with big, flat, take-away packages, he had us try one. They were packaged stacks of a lovely something-or-other, savory, flat-pizza thing covered in minced arabic-flavored vegetables. He served us one that he warmed, and we ate it at the stand-up bar, sprinkled with the lemon juice that he recommended.

It was so good that we bought six more to go, and walked out with our own lovely food to eat at home!

I will be back here on my next trip...

Hace muchos años que no volvía a esta tradicional y famoso esquina de Palermo. En una época la zona estaba repleta de locales de comida armenia, siría, árabe, y en general de Oriente Medio. Para comer al paso o bien llevar a casa esta esquina es la mejor opción. Hay lugar adentro con barras altas dispuestas para un almuerzo al paso. En esas barras tenés rollos de servilletas y jugo de limón para usar a discreción. Es una panaderia por ende la mayoría compra para llevar aunque viernes y sábado al mediodía el shawarma recién cortado y con la espada girando hasta agotar stock convoca a decenas de personas. Ir con tiempo. Hay dos personas muy amables, una cortando la carne de la espada y la otra enrollando el shawarma qué puede ser picante o suave. Es muy generoso y con uno podes almorzar y estar satisfecho. Nosotros pedimos dos shawarma y dos empanadas o fatal abiertas con una gaseosa de 600mil qué rindió para los dos. Las fatay de carne son muy generosas y lo ideal es bañarlas con limón para más sabor. La masa es súper crocante y destaca con respecto a otros restaurantes. El shawarma está coronado con un yogurth suave y la carne muy bien cocida. El sabor es apto todo tipo de paladares porque no está muy espaciado (no se siente el comino). Para postre o para un cafecito en casa podes comprar alguna de las delicias que ofrecen sobre todo la baclava. También podes comprar productos frescos para heladera ya preparados para comer en casa. Es una esquina para...