Zaytinya is great at the bar, if you can avoid the rabble at peak hours. The keeps are very good (better than the floor waiters, imho), you can taste through the ouzos/rakis/araks and glass wines more easily.

would often enough wage frenetic wars – as all wars must be fought – on bottles of vodka, whiskey, cognac and arak, in no particular order, at long - and in the eastern European manner, heavy – Saturday lunches....

, and ordered an Arak. Soon our server arrived and said, "So, you ordered an Arak?" We asked for some help with the menu, and finally settled on a sampler plate plus an assortment of kebabs that the server arranged for us. We were...

I assume you don’t want to cook very often? I find myself travelling in Boston and its surroundings not so much to find great restaurants but to find great ingredients - Arak/Seven for eastern Med stuff, Medford/North end...

on the west side of the street (corner location). We went for some sort of celebration, and were treated by the owners, waitstaff, and other patrons to too many rounds of the Turkish version of ouzo (arak?). Food was decent, very...

by showing up. And Nobu Next Door, of course, serves exactly the same food, has the star sushi chef (Shin) and doesn’t take reservations, so if you’re willing to cool your heels for a while over an arak at Layla,...

lemon Pan-fried sea bream with green tahini and pomegranate seeds Sardines stuffed with bulgur, currants and pistachios Fried scallops with saffron potatoes, asparagus and samphire Buttered prawns with tomatoes, olives and Arak

Pastina cooked in broth with parmesan Hot water, rose water, lemon, honey (shot of arak) Maeuntang

at home i still order the gingerbread for dessert. I liked it but the real star of the dessert was the scoop of ginger ice cream on top. I finished with Arak Toddy (like a hot toddy). If you like pernod and you like hot toddys,...

Buttered prawns with tomato, olives and arak (pernod) p. 150 Authors say this serves 4 as a starter, so I bumped up the quantities a bit to serve as a dinner over polenta. Huge hit. First you quickly boil some plum tomatoes, then...

on now! Labneh – if you can’t find it he suggests full-fat yoghurt (I don’t even know what that tastes like anymore! ;+) mixed with olive oil. Arak - Sub is Pernod Swiss Chard: He says it’s difficult to come...