Baba Ghanouj

Saturday, October 1, 2016

Baba Ghanouj was Margie's selection for dinner this month. www.babaghanoujrestaurant.com . Located in the Bixby Knolls area which is becoming quite the restaurant row. 12 people, 17 bottles of wine. No room on table for food.. With the bottles and all the wine glasses it was a tight squeeze for the food dishes. 

We started out with the White Bean Soup which was nice and thick. Lots of garlic.  Good flavors. 

Baskets of Pita Bread showed up but the Hummus was missing. Seems it ended up being served on the dinner plate and not much of it. And for some reason it did not seem the same as the last time I was at Baba. Something was off.

A couple more appetizers were served. Sauteed Potatoes with garlic, lemon, chioli, cilantro and tahini (the potatoes are a  favorite of mine)  and a plate of Feta Mix, feta cheese, chopped onion. tomato. fresh oregano and olive oil with pita chips.

The main entrees were served on individual dinner plates. Consisted of Kibbie Sineeya, which is freshly ground beef with cracked wheat and layered with pine nuts. Baked and served with tabbouleh and yogurt sauce.  Chicken Shawarma which is thinly sliced grilled chicken with tomato, garlic sauce and hummus. Lamb Shish Kabab, marinated pieces of lamb, charbroiled and served with hummus. And the Basmati Rice.

All the meat to me was dry, the lamb was tough and way over cooked for me and the portion size of all the sauces were very small. Flavors were excellent.

Dessert was dry also, Baklawa  (Baklava)  just did not have enough syrup on it.

I would have rather paid $5 more and had larger portions of all the sauces and hummus.

Wines were an interesting mix. I tried less than a third of them. Some just plain did not interest me. I did like the Alain Bally Champagne, Miraval Rose, Stolo Gewurztraminer and the Huber Barrel Select Pinot Noir.