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July 2020

Yafa Cafe Shish barak main dish catering menu

Sunshine Makes Things Grow on Our Menu

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Summer is here, it’s an excellent time for all of us. The sun is shining and the surf beckons. Despite the pandemic. we feel like the butterfly emerging from her cocoon; transformed and free to soar.
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Heartbreaking Setbacks

After an extended period of remodelling in 2019, we had some heartbreaking setbacks causing unexpected delays. Someone running off with our money. We wondered how we would ever see our renovation completed. But here we are at last! Thrilled to serve you the most delicious cuisine inspired by the simplicity of Arabic street food. It’s full of flavours, divine and prices are always affordable.

Options For Every Palate

Whether vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, or meat-friendly, we create dishes to please every palate. Each ingredient for every meal is lovingly prepared according to the traditions of our family. Authenticity is truly something you can taste. If you have never before traveled to the Arabic coastal communities, rest assured, we’re delivering their delicacies to you right here. Now you can dine-in, takeout, order for delivery through Door Dash or Skip the Dishes, or have your special event catered.

We want to make it effortless for you to enjoy the many new dishes added to our menu, all made possible by the additional equipment we acquired to offer even more delicious options:

  • Try the falafel — made from chickpeas and spices, rolled into balls and deep-fried to perfection.
  • Treat yourself to a shawarma, seasoned meats that are thinly cut and stacked on a vertical rotisserie, allowing tender slices to be shaved for your eating pleasure, while it continually rotates to ensure consistency in our offering.
  • Then there’s the ever-popular manakeesh — a versatile flatbread made sweet or savoury according to its toppings, like a pizza.

Yafa Cafe Cheese and veggie manakeeshIn honour of introducing some new items, we’ve created some food and drink specials you’re sure to love:

  • Baklawa and coffee for $5
  • Seniors who are 60+ get a 10 % daily discount off any order

A Menu Sneak Peek

The original dishes are back! We added some new selection. Exciting and delicious menu items for you to indulge in.

The best place to start is the appetizers. We’ve added three new ones to introduce our taghmees culture. Taghmees refers to dipping in Arabic. It is usually part of sharing practice in Arabic cuisine but with the pandemic, it’s best to each get your own.

Brunch Meals

We introduced the Tunisian Shakshuka, eggs with tomatoes, and the Potato Mfarrakeh, potato and eggs marinated with spices. Then there’s the famous Lebanese Batata Harra, cubed potato fries mixed with cilantro, lemon, garlic, and chilli flakes. All are perfect for brunch.

Main Dishes

We brought back the Msakhan sandwich wrapped with veggies and introduced the Iraqi Vegetarian Sandwich. We offered it to some of our guests to try, and they raved about it so much that we just had to add it to the main menu. As for the Main entrées in our catering menu, we added the masterpiece of Syrian Cuisine, the Shishbarak Dumplings. Ear-shaped dough filled with meat, spices, and herbs, dipped in a cooked garlicky olive oil infused with dry mint yogourt stew, this one is surely to impress your guests. We tried it out as specials, and the response was overwhelming.

Yafa Cafe Shish barak main dish catering menuThe Bamya (ladies’ fingers or okra) is an okra with meat stew. The okra is cooked in a tantalizing tomato base topped with fried garlic and served with fresh bread. You can also eat it with rice for an exquisite experience.

For the perfect as a sharing meal, opt for the Farrouj Mashwi. It’s a whole grilled chicken with a taste to remember.

Dessert

Basbousa, a semoulina cake, and baklawa (baklava) are both vegan option that can satisfy the sweet tooth that are on our menu. It took years to perfect our signature baklava recipe. The winning result is a melt-in-your-mouth treat that has since become a customer favourite. Handmade in the Yafa Café bakery, this sweet Arabic dessert is crafted with 60 paper-thin phyllo pastry leaves featuring layers of minced walnuts, almonds, plant-based ghee, cinnamon, honey, rose water, and a splash of lemon.

Drinks

Yafa Café launched many yummy and lovely drinks, served at our coffee bar for you to enjoy. We added more than ten new fantastic selections of drinks that our baristas have crafted. One of the notable ones is the mango smoothie, a must try. You will be impressed for sure!

A Final Thought

We encourage you to come in and try them out in person! We’re cooking up love from the other side of the world. After all, food is love. It brings people together. It comforts, it nourishes, it delights. Thank you for letting us share the love with you. We hope you’ll be back for more.

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