Café Gulistan

The Menu

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* All Appetizers Served With Pita
Combo Platter: A selection of Middle Eastern vegetarian dishes:
Humus, Babaghanoush, Tabouleh, Falafil and Ezme
Falafil Appetizer: Crispy patties of ground chickpeas served with sumak salad and garlic-dill yogurt sauce.
Your choice of our favorite house appetizers:: Humus, Babaghanoush,Tabouleh or Ezme.
Izgara Shrimp: Grilled Tiger Shrimp marinated with a mixture of Middle Eastern herbs and spices, served with our homemade dried apricot-sesame seed dip.
Calamari: Tender Squid sautéed with scallions & fresh garlic in a tomato-lemon sauce.
Gulistan Appetizer: Grilled vegetables topped with seasoned ground lamb, beef, and garlic-dill yogurt sauce.
Shiitake Mushrooms: Farm fresh shiitakes and fresh basil sautéed with a walnut-tomato chutney in a red wine and soy sauce.

Soup of the Day: Please, ask your server.
House Salad: Crisp romaine lettuce tossed with fresh tomatoes, red onions, bell peppers, and cucumbers with lemon juice, olive oil & sumak dressing.
Fattoush Salad: Fresh romaine lettuce tossed with fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, red onions, bell peppers, and zahter croutons, served with our exceptional honey garlic-dill yogurt dressing.
Feta Salad: Feta cheese layered with ripe tomatoes, cucumbers, red onions, and bell peppers, served with homemade dressing.
Grilled Chicken Salad: Marinated strips of chicken breast, grilled and served over a bed of romaine lettuce and mixed vegetables, tossed with a lemon-herb dressing.

Stuffed Rainbow Trout: Fresh trout stuffed with baby spinach, garlic, walnuts, and homemade tomato-pesto, served with Basmati rice and sautéed spinach.
Shrimp Kabob: Jumbo shrimp marinated in curry-lemon sauce, grilled to perfection, served with apricot chutney, Basmati rice, and seasonal vegetables.
Pasta Mediterranean: Spinach fettuccini, shrimp, fresh vegetables, sun-dried apricots, and feta cheese, sautéed in white wine-garlic sauce.

Ispanak: Spinach sautéed with mushrooms, onions, and peppers, in garlic-mango-walnut coconut cream sauce, served on crispy chickpea patties.
Sultan’s Tava: Fresh spinach, mushrooms, tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, carrots, and chickpeas, sautéed in curry-garlic sauce, served with Basmati rice.
Pasta Pesto: Penne pasta sautéed in garlic feta cream sauce with fresh-basil almond pesto, sun-dried tomatoes, spring onion and topped with parmesan cheese.
Falafel Platter: Crispy chickpea patties served with Basmati rice, sumac salad, garlic-dill yogurt or tahini sauce and seasonal vegetables.
Babaghanoush-Tabouleh Platter: Freshly prepared babaghanoush and tabouleh served with Basmati rice.
Humus-Tabouleh Platter: Freshly prepared humus and tabouleh served with Basmati rice.

Izgara Lamb: Marinated New Zealand top sirloin lamb, char-broiled, served with tomato-basil sauce, Basmati rice, and seasonal vegetables.
Rack of Lamb: Frenched New Zealand baby lamb chops grilled to order, served with
walnut-date-chutney, Basmati rice, and seasonal vegetables.
Kavurma: This is a traditional Kurdish wedding dish with cubes of tender top sirloin lamb, marinated and sautéed with onions, mushrooms, tomatoes,
served with Basmati rice.
Gülistani: Ground lamb and beef sautéed with spices and spring onion, served over a bed of Basmati rice, and garnished with our delicious sumak salad.
Beef Kabob: Marinated top sirloin beef, char-broiled, served with mushroom red wine sauce, Basmati rice, and seasonal vegetables.

Chicken Izgara: Chicken breast marinated with our garden herbs, char-broiled and served with curried vegetables, Basmati rice and mango-cherry chutney.
Chicken Dolma: Chicken breast stuffed with our own Mediterranean filling, slowly baked to perfection and served over pasta cooked in a creamy, sun-dried tomato, roasted garlic sauce.
Garlic Chicken: Savory pieces of chicken breast sautéed with onions, peppers, mushrooms, carrots, and walnuts in garlic-lemon juice, served with Basmati rice.
Antepli Yahnisi: Marinated cubes of chicken breast , sautéed with onions, carrots, mushrooms, peppers, spinach, zucchini and potatoes, served with Basmati rice.

Baklava
Mango Cheesecake
Double Chocolate Cheesecake: * Additional desserts served daily - ask your server

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