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Al Wadee Restaurant and Bakery
🇱🇧 LEBANON / With the Southland's largest variety of manakeesh, this bakery also serves a wide range of favorites from the Levant.
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Jared Cohee
Al-Sultan Mediterranean Grill
🇵🇸 PALESTINE / HISTORICAL: The key word here is grill, with skewers of meat over mesquite and dual spinning shawarma spits both competing for your…
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Jared Cohee
Monasaba
🇾🇪 YEMEN / HISTORICAL: Permanently Closed.
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Jared Cohee
Desert Moon Grill
🇱🇧 LEBANON / Levantine foods fully infused with charcoal and smoke from the grill make this eight year old Little Arabia spot worth returning to for…
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Jared Cohee
Mama's Shawarma
🇸🇾 SYRIA / HISTORICAL: Permanently Closed.
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Jared Cohee
Jerusalem Chicken
🇵🇸 PALESTINE / FREE FRIDAY FAVORITES: For those without easy access to Anaheim's magical Little Arabia, Slauson Avenue offers some seriously good…
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Jared Cohee
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Al Sanabel Bakery & Mehmet's Koftegi
🇹🇷 TURKEY / FREE FRIDAY FAVORITES: When one of Little Arabia's favorite Lebanese bakeries was taken over by a Turkish chef, very good things happened.
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Jared Cohee
Furn Saj Restaurant & Bakery
🇱🇧 LEBANON / FREE FRIDAY FAVORITES: Now with three locations, this seemingly workaday Lebanese bakery is still churning out some of the best breads…
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Jared Cohee
Sphinx Egyptian Kitchen
🇪🇬 EGYPT / In an unlikely plaza at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains, an ode to the streets of Giza and Cairo is now alive in Glendora.
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Jared Cohee
Borjstar Shawarma Shop
🇸🇾 SYRIA / QUICK FIX: In an unlikely northeast Gardena shopping center, a shawarma purveyor to rival Los Angeles's best offers the styles popular with…
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Jared Cohee
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Al Baraka Restaurant
🇵🇸 PALESTINE / The "blessing" that is Little Arabia's Al Baraka is like being invited into a private dinner party at the home of its owners.
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Jared Cohee
Akkad Mediterranean & Iraqi Grill
🇮🇶 IRAQ / HISTORICAL: A casual strip mall restaurant in Glendale happens to be home to a wide array of Iraqi foods.
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Jared Cohee
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