Fattoush

This restaurant's terrace overlooks the Pedestrian Walk and is great for people-watching. It's famous for its fresh house salad, filled with mint, green onion, and other surprises, but there's also a menu of interesting dishes such as sliced chicken breast and green pepper prepared in a wok with Middle Eastern seasonings and served with a small side dish of yogurtlike leben. Lots of good salads, grilled meats, coffees, teas, and desserts round off the menu -- the best dessert is an elegant, homemade kanafeh (traditional ancient dessert of baked sweet cheese, grain, pistachio, and watered honey). In winter, when the terrace is too chilly, Fattoush retreats inside its stone house, where there's an old-fashioned dining room, plus a downstairs Bedouin room with tribal rugs and low divans on which you can stretch out. The music is soft and always right, whether folk, jazz, classical, or Middle Eastern. There's a short wine list.

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