Pasha's Restaurant

Frommer's Review

This is the best Arabic restaurant in Jerusalem, offering many homemade specialties that just aren't offered elsewhere. Among the appetizers are wonderful lamb spleens stuffed with parsley, garlic, and meat; great kubbeh (cracked wheat dumplings fried and filled with meat or vegetables); fried goat cheese; sautéed lamb brains; as well as hummus flavored with thin slices of fried lamb. The perfectly grilled skewers of cubed lamb, chicken breast, and liver are moist and tasty, but the traditional oven dishes such as mansaf (seasoned lamb cooked with pine nuts and almonds, served on rice with an earthy Bedouin yogurt) and musakhan (chicken baked with onion, local spices, and served on special fresh baked flat bread) are worth trying. The mezze of salads is good, and the Arabic pastries are homemade. After dining, you can order a nargeila (hookah) to smoke in a number of flavors. Pasha's is located in a charming 1920s stone bungalow with a dining garden that is closed and heated in cold weather. The building is shared with the interesting Al Wasiti Art Gallery.

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