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    SF: What fun! Happy hour and breakfast … Margarita, small plate and dessert at Orson for $15

    on the website those include “grilled stone fruit” apricot, plum, cherries & white peach. The “Touch of Evil” tail was a bit too sweet for me. I vastly prefer the “Catch 22” which is concocted...

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    Served "mystery sauce" at Egyptian restaurant

    Boy, do I miss the Lebanese Taverna. I dream about their fateh bel djaje. Had many great meals there, followed by coffees and arak of course.

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    Clubhouse Cafe

    and we were brought wine glasses with an anise drink (not arak, but similar tasting) with coffee beans. Dessert- one was ordered the apple pie a la mode with chocolate sauce and it was devoured.

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    Pita Kitchen - Sherman Oaks.

    and perfectly spiced. If you go there you will notice that the majority of the patrons are Middle Eastern, that’s no accident. And after dinner you can sit outside and have some coffee and arak and smoke the hookah. Good...

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    Your last meal.

    of arak/vodka (two hours). Mains: Lao laab made from smoked duck with khao niyao & greens; lamb chops Paris style, lamb kidneys, plain Japanese rice; steamed spotted grouper with black beans, green onions, and molten toasted...

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    Bali & Lombok recs?

    night in the pouring rain with DJ spinning, everyone dancing and drinking Bintang and arak attacks. I never made it to Denpassar, and the day I was up by Naughty Nuri’s, I was out of cash. BTW I had no problem bringing back...

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    Liquor brand/quality used in cocktails

    , arak, fruit and nut liquers. Good tails are also made with good quality ingredients like juices, rinds, fruits, etc. Hope this helps, and bottoms up.

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    Quality food at a reasonable price? Great Italian Market?

    armenian and russian stores in boston, which are very good quality (try Araks on Mt. Auburn for lovely fresh hummus and Bazaar in Brookline for first rate russian smoked fish and in house eggplant dishes). you do have to go out...

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    Anyone have insider tips on Bali?

    /gado gado with random fish dishes for the previous weeks). My favorite dish was a Balinese seafood paella. They do a couple-day cooking school as well, which I would have been interested to take had we not been on our way out....

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    Food Stores in North NJ - Your Favorites

    anything that they do not carry in stock. I needed yuzu and they ordered it for me. Easier for me than going to Mitsua. And across the street and just south on KKM Road is Arak. Small and friendly, middle eastern supplies. Sumac,...

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    Absinthe

    It’s interesting, many national liquors are anise flavored—French Absinthe, Anisette, and Pastis, Greek Ouzo, Italian Sambuca, Arabic Arak (which I recently had) and New Orleans Herbsaint besides Jagermeister....

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    Best middle eastern in the valley?

    Alcazar is better than Carnival. Alcazar is a lot better than Carnival: the fried fish with tahini, the perfect shish tawok, the exquisite brains with pine nuts, the magnificent arak they bring in – it’s playing in an...

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    Kosher Wedding in NJ

    ). With the second child, we gave a credit card charge of $1,000 to the caterer, who provided whole bottles of booze of varying grades (besides the requisite scotches, vodka, and bourbon, there was lots of Arak, as Sephardim were...

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    best "food hood" in beantown

    Allston/Brookline tops my list – though i’d have to add Russos in Watertown and Formaggios in Cambridge, plus Arak's and Severn’s in Watertown to cover all bases. In addition to the ton of reasonable and...

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    National Drinks? Tequila is to Mexico as ... is to Other Countries

    Greece- Ouzo Mediterranean and middle East countries like Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, Jordan and Palestine - Arak sometimes spelled Arrack. South Asia and South East Asia- Arrack or Alak

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