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Abu Zaad - Syrian and Middle Eastern cuisine
Abu Zaad, 29 Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush, London, W12 8LH ...
I love lebanese cuisine what I have to admit is that the food is worth a 7-8 out of 10 what let them down is the bad management not treating the customer at the same level even in a fast food you have a better service.
I am talking mainly of a manager who shouts at you and tells you that you are not welcome when you complain because you had 3different waiters to take the starter order same for main and again for dessert because they believe it is more important to say hello to their accountancies when they are serving a new customer who will never come back because of that.Sincerely real shame for a good cuisine
London restaurant guide: Abu Zaad, London W12 - Telegraph
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Among the excellent local amenities to evade him, however, were the pair of bail hostels opposite the front door and the drive-by shootings that occasionally mingle with birdsong to form such a richly harmonic nightfall serenade.
The cracking neighbourhood joint is the clincher, after all, for those of us who think with our stomachs, and having a beauty like Abu Zaad within easy reach outranks the inconvenience of being kept from entering the road once a month by crime scene tape.
Firmly in the bargain basement gaudy Middle Eastern style, its fake gold light fittings hint vaguely at opulence, Arabesque arched windows are covered by forbidding bars and illuminated photos of women pottering about beneath the minarets of Old Damascus fight for space on the faux sand-tiled walls with giant televisions.
If the lack of crushing pressure to recoup a fortune spent on décor partly explains the apparent lunacy of the prices (£3 for starters, £6-8 for most main courses), another reason is that Abu Zaad belongs to the owners of a fantastic and fantastically busy supermarket up the road, Damas Gate, where the butchers cut whole lambs with astonishing speed and skill for people who drive 60 miles for the meat, and you can queue for an hour to pay £6 for three Halal chickens.
The mandatory brace of police vans was drawing up outside the bail hostels as we reached home and we smiled at the scene like indulgent parents as their four-year-old drops Baby Jesus on his head at the nativity.
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The morning menu stretches from freshly baked pastries to Scottish smoked salmon and cream cheese on toasted muffins, and includes the Pekoe Florentine (£6), where the expected hollandaise is replaced (presumably with calorie-counting yummy mummies in mind) with fresh spinach and a dressing of olive oil.
Units T4-T5, New Shepherd's Bush Market, Uxbridge Road, W12 (+44 (0) 7798 906668, mrfalafel.co.uk) A little bit of downtown Damascus on the Uxbridge Road, this buzzy Syrian restaurant – all carved wood and ornate Arabic brasswork, satellite TV and genial bustle – offers eye-opening food at remarkably low prices.
Syria shares many dishes with its Middle Eastern and eastern Mediterranean neighbours (hummus, tabbouleh, Lebanese fattoush salad, moussaka, Moroccan tagines and myriad grilled kebabs) and, naturally, the aubergine plays a significant role in the Abu Zaad kitchen.
The daily takeaway menu includes the shop's own hot pasta bakes, soup, samosas, salads, various pies, sausage rolls (£1.10, and a little too heavily seasoned with sage and pepper, in my opinion) and seriously good cakes.
Everything about a sample salmon and cream cheese bagel (the dense, chewy, almost sweetish bagel; the rich, thick, sharp cream cheese; the bright, lightly cured salmon; the fastidious scattering of fresh chives and ground pepper) was testament to Mr Christian's enduring quality.
Abu Zaad | Restaurants in Shepherd's Bush, London
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Big helpings, low prices and a rollickingly relaxed setting are the draws at this capacious Syrian venue near Shepherd’s Bush Market.
Groups of teenagers, young families and couples after a quick, fuss-free meal seem to find this vast Syrian restaurant a convenient destination.
Service is pretty slick, though, and although the restaurant is often furiously busy, you’re unlikely to have trouble getting seated at one of the plentiful tables – probably next to a garish painting of Old Damascus or near an ornamental brick arch.
A sharing meze of cold starters – including parsley-packed tabouleh and lashings of thick houmous – would have been a filling meal in itself.
There’s a no-alcohol policy, but you can wash down the carbs with a glass of salty yoghurt ayran or a freshly squeezed juice, and round off the meal with a pot of mint tea.