Sababa
Israeli restaurant · Chinatown ·
Fresh pita, falafel, bowls, and Mediterranean street food.
Fresh pita, falafel, bowls, and Mediterranean street food.
"If fresh pita and hot falafel is your idea of a perfect quick meal, you won’t want to miss this Israeli-inspired hotspot which gets rave reviews for both. It’s most popular at lunch when lines tend to get long. A second location in SoMa at 71 Stevenson Street if you’re on the south side of Market Street." - Dianne de Guzman
"A good, quick stop for Israeli street food served assembly-line-style. The pita is freshly baked in-house, and the chicken is well-spiced. The best part is, when they make your sandwich, they’ll expertly layer all the ingredients so that you’ll never end up with a mouth full of toppings and no protein or vice versa. Whatever you do, don’t skip the skug hot sauce after you get out of line." - taylor abrams, jess basser sanders, will kamensky
"This is one of our favorite lunch options in the Financial District, because even though the pita sandwiches are large enough to convincingly hide under your covers if you wanted to sneak out of the house, they won’t weigh you down the entire day. What you fill it with is up to you, but we like the chicken and the sabik." - taylor abrams, will kamensky
"Everything at this fast-casual lunch spot is great - from the falafel to the salads, chicken, and sabik sandwiches - and the line moves pretty fast, so you won’t be waiting half your day for lunch. While everything here comes in bowl-form, the pita is baked fresh, so it’s worth getting a sandwich. Whatever you do, you should be dousing anything you order in their spicy skug sauce." - will kamensky
"This Financial District counter-service spot (with another lunch-only location in the FiDi) makes excellent bowls and pita sandwiches. On the bowls front, choose a rice or hummus base before picking a protein like chicken, kofta, and falafel and fixings from a sneeze-guarded salad bar. Feel free to close your eyes, spin around a few times and point. There’s no going wrong. Sandwiches come with a thick coating of tahini, fistfuls of cabbage and pickled veggies, and your choice of protein. Both options are perfect for a quick lunch or dinner on the go, but we suggest ordering the sandwich if only to taste the house pita which somehow manages to be both chewy and fluffy at the same time." - ricky rodriguez, patrick wong, julia chen 1
