| |  | Mamoun's | | | “My friends and I started eating here back in 1988. It's falafel, lentil soup and chicken kabobs were good then and they still are!” —daz9nyc | | Cuisine: Middle Eastern |
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| | | | | | It's a shameful fact that up until last week, I'd never been to Mamoun's Falafel. For someone who went to grad school at NYU and spent two years flitting about Washington Squre Park, it amounts to something of an outrage. Mamoun's is an NYU tradition: cheap, fast, and flavorful falafel all just ... Read More | | | | | | "Restaurant" is a stretch, but their especially crisp-coated falafel stood up admirably in a sea of babaganouj (on pita; $2.50); as "meaty" as a vegetarian sandwich can be.... Read More | | | | | | In the city that never sleeps it not so hard to find cheap food, you got your $1 hot bog, $1 dumpling, and your 99 cents slice, but I am always left feeling un-fulfillment after inhaling down that a hotdog, the portions have definitely gotten smaller and let’s face it folks the quality in not what i... Read More | | | | | | I was grabbing a falafel sandwich from Mamoun's the other day, and noticed that their hot sauce is bottled and available for sale for $3. The sauce is brick red with paprika, black peppery and medium-hot. I poured it all over my sandwich, but it would also be fantastic for homecooking, as an add... Read More | | | | | | chocolate inside! He's bald. He makes chocolate. He's...MAX BRENNER, HOLY SHIZZ! ...Wait, wuh? I didn't know much about the Israeli chocolatier (besides that he's bald and makes chocolates) until he opened one of his combination store-and-cafe chocolate-filled wonderlands in NYC. Yesterday Ja... Read More | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | • PETA is getting involved in the Frankenmeat debate by offering a $1 million to the “first person to come up with a method to produce commercially viable quantities of in vitro meat at competitive prices by 2012.” Yeah, good luck with that. [NYT] • Mark from Top Chef worked Public’s table at las... Read More | | | | | | When I was in college Mamoun's seemed like the greatest thing on earth: two bucks for a huge, filling falafel sandwich. Now, six years later, I'm taken aback at how not great Mamoun's is. The sandwich I got last week was a thin, dry pita filled with iceberg lettuce, pale and tasteless chopped tomatoes, strong white onions, overly salty falafel, and a tablespoon or two of watery tahini. After eati... Read More | | | |
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