Four of us tried out this Kurdish place (Erbil is the capital of Kurdistan, in Iraq) near Faifax Circle.
We got one order of Iraqi-style beef and lamb kabobs, an eggplant salad, plus two dishes I’ve never seen before on a menu: Tashrib Lamb and Quzi - Sham.
The quzi - sham is a big package of dough wrapped around rice and heavily seasoned meat, in our case we chose the chicken version:
The seasoning on the chicken was excellent and the rice was nice and steamy and fluffy.
The lamb tashrib was a big slab of meat smothered in a simple but delicious gravy:
The eggplant salad was a surprise, with the eggplant being cooked to a blistered, crispy char. It was unique and divine.
And finally, we were curious about what constitutes Iraqi-style kabob. In this case it was strips of ground meat that retained a good bit of juiciness though they were cooked to a crisp. Salty and fatty and juicy, like a smashburger, but a really great one:
This was all around a successful meal and afterwards we had a tough time choosing which was our favorite. It ended up in a four-way tie.