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| Abu Zaad |
| 29 Uxbridge Road |
| Shepherds Bush, W12 8LH |
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| Facilities |
| Air conditioning
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Non-smoking area
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Parties welcome
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Children welcome & high chairs
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Vegetarian selection
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Take away available
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Allergy aware
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Outside catering
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| Abu Zaad is a long, unlicensed Syrian restaurant with an ornately decorated dining room, a counter filled with the numerous meze and an open kitchen where the stews, charcoal grills and stone-baked bread (which accompanies every meze) are prepared. The hot and cold meze are all priced around £2 and the wide selection of main courses are almost all priced at £4.90 – making Abu Zaad the perfect place to experiment with the authentic Persian cuisine at incredibly reasonable prices. |
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| There is a two-stage cartoon on the menu of Abu Zaad, featuring a man with a donkey cart making collections and deliveries. The caption runs: "Mr Abu Zaad used to collect meals from traders wives and deliver them to traders in the souk" - things are different in the Uxbridge Road. Abu Zaad boasts an ornately decorated dining room to the rear. You go up a few steps to a raised area where the rich green walls look as if they are decorated with metal panels, complex motifs stand out in relief and are all curlicues and bright colours, giving a tremendous feeling of the exotic. |
| | To reach the dining room you must first pass through a good many other tables full of happy punters - some grazing on the tempting display of pastries, some gossiping in front of the counter filled with the numerous meze - and the coffee-making area, then you turn left at the open kitchen (charcoal grill, stews for reheating, and full-size bread oven). Abu Zaad is a busy place and a friendly one, the food is good and awesomely cheap. |
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Cuisine |
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| Damascene |
| Syrian food combines the sophistication of European cuisine with the excitement of eastern spices, and it is Syria's culinary contributions that have been the greatest influence on modern Arabic cuisine. Syrian dishes are simple preparations based on grains, vegetables and fruits. Often the same ingredients are used over and over, in different ways, in each dish. Yogurt, cheese, cucumber, aubergines, chick peas, nuts, tomatoes, burghul and sesame (seeds, paste and oil) are harmoniously blended into numerous assorted medleys. Pita bread is served with all meals for dipping. |
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| Mediterranean |
| Damascene food combines the sophistication of European cuisine with the excitement of Eastern spices. Dishes from Damascus provide the framework for the exotic dishes recognized internationaly as Arabic. |
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| Operation |
| Open every day 11am-11pm. All major credit cards accepted (not Diners). No service charge.
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