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One of my favorite Food Network shows, Diners Drive-Ins and Dives, has been featuring many restaurants in the Twin Cities lately, which is super exciting, and I recently saw this in one of their episodes.<\/p>\n
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Holy Land.<\/p>\n
It’s a deli\/grocery\/restaurant place that specializes in Arabic, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern foods, located in the Northeast Minneapolis neighborhood.<\/p>\n
We’ve been here before, but at that time we just visited the grocery store and we didn’t eat.<\/p>\n
So when I saw Mr. Fieri giving a huge compliment on their hummus, I couldn’t wait to go check out the restaurant.<\/p>\n
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We had an appetizer plate.<\/p>\n
On the place came hummus, baba ghanoush “ghannuj”, falafel, and stuffed grape leaves.<\/p>\n
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It came with a basket of pita bread.<\/p>\n
Everything on the plate was absolutely delicious!!<\/p>\n
Loved the hummus, but the baba ghanoush was one of the best I’ve ever tasted.<\/p>\n
It has a wonderfully strong roasted flavor and it really sets theirs apart from other restaurants. It’s not overly garlicky, either, which I often do not care for.<\/p>\n
The stuffed grape leaves were very tasty, too.<\/p>\n
The first time I ever tried stuffed grape leaves were from cans, and they were terrible.<\/p>\n
It’s a shame to sell those poor quality canned foods.<\/p>\n
Their falafel was great, too.<\/p>\n
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Since we didn’t know the plate would come with bread, we also ordered a spinach pie.<\/p>\n
Well, we were glad we did.<\/p>\n
Although it was a lot of food (we took almost all the pita bread home), we loved everything we ordered.<\/p>\n
The spinach pie was packed with a lot of spinach, and served with cheese and cucumber sauce.<\/p>\n
Very very flavorful!!<\/p>\n
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They also had some great looking meat rotisserie.<\/p>\n
I like restaurants that have an open kitchen.<\/p>\n
I could watch them work in the kitchen like this all day long!<\/p>\n
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They have a bakery section right next to the dining area, and I was looking forward to check it out after our lunch.<\/p>\n
All the baked goods looked fresh and smelled great.<\/p>\n
The ingredients looked pretty good.<\/p>\n
When I say good, they are simple and I know what they are.<\/p>\n
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Seriously, where in the U.S. can you get Iraqi Tandori Bread?!<\/p>\n
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These sweets looked great too, and I was so tempted to get something.<\/p>\n
Well, next time for sure!<\/p>\n
This is the kind of place I wish we had in our neighborhood so that I could walk to get fresh quality tabbouleh or falafel for lunch, snack, or dinner, or Iraqi Tandoori bread!<\/p>\n
But it’s close enough, so I’m sure we will go back very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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