There were a myriad of spices, freshly baked, fluffy pita bread,
more loaf-style breads with lots of nuts, seeds and dried fruits,
tantalizing pastries also with dried fruits and nuts,
fruits & veggies of course,
and olives, olives, olives! Cured olives, Syrian olives, salty ones, bitter ones...being back home now, I'm definitely lamenting the limited the olive selection here and how expensive they are in comparison to Israel where the olive trees are ubiquitous.
Thursday is the day before Shabbat begins on Friday evening, so it's quite busy in the shuk.
For lunch we stopped at Azura, a well-known restaurant at the end of the Iraqi section of the Shuk. Lunch was served brusquely and without much fanfare (as Israeli's are famous for) and we dived in to Israeli salad, tasty green hot sauce (more of a salsa, actually),
eggplant stuffed with lamb and rice,
and hummus topped with whole garbanzos, parsley and falafel.
For dessert we walked to an ice cream place that served a variety of fruity and innovative flavors...we chose guava and passionfruit.
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