El Basha Mediterranean Grill

At El Basha, Eat Your Soup and Don’t Ask Questions | Bon Appétit

"El Basha's creamy lebneh and warm pita. The mezza plate is a must: hummus, tabbouleh, baba ghanuje, and falafel, with pita bread. The kafta wrap is spiced ground beef, grilled on skewers, then wrapped with tahini and Turkish pickles. The lebneh is strained yogurt with olive oil and mint, and the sour purple pickles that come with everything when the right kind of turnips are in season. Both are made in-house. Almost everything on El Basha’s menu is made on site, with salads changing depending on what vegetables are in season. Ahmad Nabulsi opened the restaurant about 20 years ago with his nephew, aiming to bring to Omaha some of the foods they loved growing up in Lebanon." - ByRainbow Rowell