If you want to start a fight — or at least a very impassioned discussion — just bring up falafel’s origin story. Some people believe the first delicious chickpea fritters hit the hot oil in Egypt 1,000 years ago. Others credit sixth-century India. And cultures across the Middle East claim falafel as their own. Who can blame them?
So we set out to sample falafel spots across the East and South Bays, from Walnut Creek’s Manakish to Berkeley’s King of Kebab and Santa Clara’s Shawarmaji. Here are our favorites. You could eat at this cute Walnut Creek restaurant almost every other day for a year and not order the same thing twice, so it’d be inaccurate to call it just a falafel joint. But if you go for the falafel, you’re making a wise move.
Manakish Oven and Grill serves falafel, shawarma and manakish, a Levant flatbread that will remind you of pizza — but with shawarma. First off, they’re made fresh and are crispy, not crunchy , and are nice and moist on the inside. The wraps are served with hummus, lettuce, cucumbers, onions, pickles, turnips and tahini sauce stuffed in a lavash bread and lightly toasted .
The wrap blends fresh falafel with hummus, zucchini, cauliflower, tomato, lettuce and tahini, all encased in a remarkably sturdy flour tortilla. The house spicy sauce packs some zing, if you’re ready for an extra kick.Wash it all down with a fizzy soda – San Pellegrino Aranciata or Orangina – and for dessert, don’t skip the halvah bar .Open from 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and until 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday at 433 California Ave.
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