Aladdin

On the first floor of the well-known City Shopping Center on the side overlooking Zena Park (or Woman’s Park), next to the Italian restaurant Gino, a little, pretty, oriental restaurant, symbolically called Aladdin, will supply you with the feeling of being in the eastern world of fantasy and magic lamps as well as offer you some unusual Arabic recipes. Its Arabian music, which is quiet enough to allow a pleasant conversation among the diners, is very soothing.

You can start your meal with some mixed salad, which is fresh and truly delicious. The menu offers other salads as well, such as, tebule, made of tomatoes, onions and parsley, fetush, which consists of tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, mint and toasted Arabic bread, then many people’s favourite, ruccola salad, a cheese salad, and other. Prices range between 1.5 Euros to 3 Euros per salad.

The starters vary from humus, a unique combination of taan, garlic and chick-pea, to baba ganuch

, made of eggplant and taan, and chick-pea balls known as felafel, from Arabian pizza, by the name of Lahambadzun, to sambusek, an Arabian burek, from exquisite potatoes to broccoli on butter. It is so designed to lavishly supply different tastes and those who hunt for out-of-the-ordinary palate experiences will be gratified.

If you are looking for more substantial meal you can either opt for chicken fingers with curry, or brijani, extra-delicious rice with minced meat, almonds, raisins, and potatoes or magluba, rice mixed with chicken, eggplant, potatoes, and zucchini. Vegetarians can also find something for their taste like vegetarian skewer and vegetarian rice. The rate of the main course varies from 3 to 8 Euros per meal.

It is worth mentioning that the menu does not offer any alcohol. However, if you order something to eat you may order some wine or beer to go along with it. Here we would like to recommend something in eastern style: the delicious salep with some cinnamon on top. You can also try the Arabian drink liben, made of buttermilk with mint, water and salt. The drink list also offers Arabian coffee and tea.

If you still have a stomach for a dessert, you can go for some baklava, a Turkish sweet, with a lot of sweet syrup, ataif, a small pancake filled with walnuts, coconut, semolina and syrup, or tufanija, a boiled apple with a filling and cream. The prices of these unusual delights are a little less than 1.5 Euros.

Aladdin, The City Shopping Center GTC, the first floor

02 3232 002