EGE Mediterranean — Restaurant in Pittsburgh

Delicious Mediterranean food, and undoubtedly high quality food products. There are not very many places in Pittsburgh that let you order a build your own Mediterranean bowl. It's a bit like Chipotle for Mediterranean food, but local, higher quality, and also has options for pizza, sweets, salad, and so on. I ordered the build your own bowl with sun dried tomato, raisins, chickpeas, vegan ranch, tangy minty yogurt, roasted seasonal vegetables, feta, rice, and chicken shawarma. I also tried the kadayif dessert.

This place is a tad on the more expensive side, but I think it's worth it. The ingredients are very flavorful and the portions are decent. The shawarma was flavorful and pretty good texture. Solid. I really enjoyed the sun dried tomato, which was perfectly sweet. However, I didn't realize the yogurt has thin strips of cucumber in it, so it was not my favorite.

Rice was well cooked but pretty standard. They add a fair amount of feta cheese to it for no extra up charge, which was very well appreciated. I assume the roasted seasonal vegetables change depending on the time of year, but I received squash, zucchini, and carrots I believe. The vegan ranch was very good! Not sure if it's homemade, but it's nice to have this vegan option available here. Decent amount of raisins. They are generally great for vegans, as you can even get vegan pizza options.

Honestly, one of my favor parts of the meal was 100% a surprise: the pita. Usually, pita is a side thought, but not here. This is definitely the best pita I have had in a very long time, maybe ever. It's thick and seems homemade. Fluffy and delicious. I would order extra pita for next time.

I believe this is one of the only if not the only place in Pittsburgh currently serving kadayif. They rotate between baklava and kadayif. Both are homemade. They used an adequate amount of sweet syrup which was delicious. The texture is a bit weird (it's like crunchy noodles with walnuts in a sweet syrup) but I definitely liked it.

All in all, this is a very good place to visit if you want Mediterranean food. The meat is decently good, there is variety, and very high quality ingredients. I would say the sun dried tomato is a must, and the pita was delicious. Get your fresh Mediterranean food craving...

We wanted some Turkish food and this place came up on our search. Let me say, the owner and staff were very friendly and answered all our questions patiently. We ended up ordering the gyro (doner) kebab which has all the goodies stuffed into a fresh home made pita and can feed 2 people easily.

We also got the lahmajoun with egg (Turkish pizza) which had grilled jalapeño and salad placed on top. Then a side of babaghanoush which was very fresh and tasty, that came with a large homemade pita.

The meal was all ready in 15 minutes and packaged perfectly. We got home and ate out on the deck and enjoyed all the great flavors. The owner also packed a complementary dessert, that was well received.

The food quantity is large and quality and flavor excellent. We will be back for sure and had enough food for lunch tomorrow. Great owner and staff with value for money...

When I entered the store it was cozy, but I guess the owners were on a lunch break (it was ~2:00) and they were outside eating. I had to wait inside for 2-3 min until they took my order. I have never waited this long for a bowl in my life, perhaps it was the fresh rice and the fact it was an off hour, but it took quite a while. Keep in mind there was little to no seating with two tables outside, both taken so I walked across the street to sit. The food was definitely worth the wait though. I chose to make my own bowl with chicken shawarma, half rice, half lettuce, hummus, spicy pepper dip, Turkish salad, and feta. Everything was so fresh and I enjoyed every bite of the bowl (9/10). Also the side pita was so good and comes with the bowl (9.3/10). Next time I would probably get more dressing as I prefer moist bowls, but I highly recommend...