Cafe Cabaret- a coffee shop with food.

Hi.  You are back at mmm-yoso!!!, possibly a bookmark on your Tool Bar, or perhaps you got here by Googling.  In any case, Kirk and ed(from Yuma) are not blogging today, Cathy is.

The other Friday, again after one of our walks around a body of water...

  
 
 

Lake Murray on this day...

The Mister and I started driving and somehow got to Adams Avenue.  We saw this sign. I rounded the block and parked.  

It was the "French Crepes" sign which attracted me, because I still hadn't had any since my quest for crepes went unrequited a few weeks ago...

 
However, just the beverage menu here was filled with choices and when we saw menu items (sandwiches, salads, kabobs), breakfast items(omelets, scrambles, waffles, pancakes, French Toast) and some of the daily chalkboard specials, the crepe was soon forgotten and we ordered, paid and found a place to sit.

An outdoors-brought-inside decor with many tables inside the building as well as on the patio, apparently offering free wi-fi and community setting, we felt comfortable here.   

The nice young lady who took our order brought out the regular coffee we had ordered.  I found out the owners are Ethiopian, explaining some of the menu items. {Yes.  Too many beverage choices has me wanting to see if a place can make a regular cup of coffee.  (Cafe Cabaret can.)}
The Mister had ordered the Vegetable samosas, a light snack ($4.99) which came with a salsa dip as well as a yougurt sauce and some carrots and cucumbers.

These pockets of just baked flaky triangle shaped dough were filled with a delightful blend of peas, lentils, potatoes, carrots, spinach, tomatoes, onions, perfectly seasoned with cumin and coriander.
I ordered the chalkboard special falafel sandwich, which came with salad, hummus and whole wheat pita ($4.99). The salad dressing was a raspberry vinaigrette and the dipping sauce was yogurt based.  The fresh hummus was topped with a nice-hot Harissa sauce. The falafel inside the wheat wrap were probably made from a dry mix, had and interesting garlic flavor on their own and were cold (!)  inside the wrap filled with lettuces, onion, tomato and cucumber accompanied by a sauce which seemed to be a mix of the yogurt and harissa. There was a lot of falafel in the sandwich and the meal was quite filling and very tasty, although I ended up using all of the other sauces on the table and not the raspberry salad dressing for the salad- it tasted too sweet to me.  

This was another lucky find for us. We'll stop by when we are in the area again.

Cafe Cabaret 3739 Adams Avenue San Diego 92116 (619)284-1819 Open 6:30-10 p.m. 7 days.  Breakfast 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Website

Comments

[caninecologne]

hi c! what a great find! those samosas look fantastic! i'd eat those with the harissa sauce though. :)

[Dennis]

Hi Cathy! I always thought the hot sauce shop next door was neat but haven't been here since the expansion into the restaurant. Used to be my free wifi spot. I had an awesome Egyptian/Mediterranean breakfast there called Ful.

[Alyssa]

The falafel sandwich special looks like a good amount of food for $5! Too bad the falafel were from a dry mix. I'm always on the lookout for crisp and fresh falafel.

[Cathy]

I used the salsa with the samosa, cc and it worked out. The spices were just right, but I can see how harissa might be even better.
We were there pretty early on a weekday, Dennis, and there were a few people using the wifi inside. I posted on the Foul breakfast enjoyed at Garden Fresh smoothies. It's a favorite breakfast of mine.
It was a lot of food, Alyssa- a special on the chalkboard out front. The falafel being cold and not greasy made them a grain to eat, so it kind of tasted 'right' in the wrap. Fresh falafels are at Mystic Grill, Sultan and Valley Foods.