al Badawi
Middle Eastern restaurant · Brooklyn Heights
151 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Highlights
Palestinian restaurant serving family-style platters & fresh flatbreads
Palestinian restaurant serving family-style platters & fresh flatbreads
"This second location of a Brooklyn Heights Palestinian restaurant is a great option when you want to feed all of your friends cheesy flatbreads and roasted lamb shank over seasoned rice. We always start with warm pita dipped into olive oil and za’atar, and olives for good measure—all eaten underneath a canopy of fake leaves. Keep Al Badawi in mind for your next casual group meal. The BYOB policy keeps the bill reasonable." - sonal shah, willa moore, will hartman, neha talreja
"This Palestinian spot (the sister restaurant to Ayat) is good for groups who need a lot of food, in a large room with murals and fake flowers that make it feel a little like a picnic. Try the ouzi lamb, the bamia, and a few of the eight flatbreads topped with everything from shawarma to pistachio. These are dangerously cheesy and therefore undeniably good, but we find that they’re best utilized as drinking snacks—which brings us to our next point: this restaurant is BYOB." - willa moore, bryan kim, sonal shah, molly fitzpatrick, carina finn koeppicus, hannah albertine
"Sit under a canopy of fake leaves and dip some freshly baked pita in labne and hummus at Al Badawi on the Upper East Side. The Palestinian restaurant, with another location in Brooklyn Heights, is spacious and casual, with plenty of entrees big enough to share, like kebabs, branzino, and roasted lamb served on a potpourri-like pile of rice, almonds, and herbs. You can only book for groups of up to six online, but if you have a larger party, you can easily make a reservation over the phone, no prix-fixe required." - bryan kim, willa moore
"Dunking hot pita bread into fresh olive oil and za’atar is one of life’s true pleasures, and you can do that before you order any food at Al Badawi, a Palestinian restaurant with multiple locations. Theirs is thin and crispy, and we love that the spread also comes with olives. More free olives, please." - sonal shah, bryan kim, willa moore, will hartman
"Al Badawi opened in 2021 as a follow-up to Ayat, a popular Palestinian restaurant with several locations. Over time, though, the menus traded their most popular dishes, and both places served a similar menu of chicken and beef shawarma, family-style mezze, and Palestinian pizza. Only one has 100-seat dining room at the Cobble Hill border, though, and for Palestinian food in the area, Al Badawi is your best bet. BYOB." - Robert Sietsema
