DATE NITE IN COOLIDGE CORNER

Tom and I decided have a date night last Wednesday. Mainly because we still hadn't seen Little Miss Sunshine and both the Kendall and Coolidge Corner Theatres were going to stop showing it as of Friday. (And if it's still playing around you, and you still haven't seen it, you just gotta. It is hilarious). So we also decided to check out Rami's, which I'd been wanting to do for some time; Katie kept telling me about how great Rami's is- she and Dustin eat there frequently since they just live a few blocks away.

When we arrived at Rami's, the place was already packed. And there was a line. And all the tables were taken (we ended up sitting at a little bar area towards the back of the restaurant). The menu board wasn't very helpful in describing what each item actually is. So if you don't know what a boureka is (Puffed Pastry Dough Topped with Hundreds of Sesame Seeds filled with An Assortment of Scrumptious Delights- that's according to menupages) then you're kinda screwed. And the people there aren't gonna be so helpful. Their objective is to keep the line moving. Luckily, we had both checked out the menu on menupages prior to arriving. I had considered ordering the shwarma (since it's made from turkey), but all the people kept whispering around us "they're out of shwarma". So instead, we ordered the Rami's special with an extra side of hummus (which was totally unnecessary).

Here's my extra side of hummus. it was nice and smooth, with lots of tahini, but i don't know, i just feel like i can make a better hummus than all the places i've visited. I just like it with more garlic.
And here's our Rami's special. It came with Lamb Kebabs, Grilled Chicken, Houmos and Falafel
Along with a salad
And two pieces of pita.
It was a ton of food. Maybe if I hadn't ordered that extra side of hummus, we would've had a better shot of actually finishing it all, but that didn't happen. And it's a great deal. Just $12.95 for the Rami's Special. Acutally, everything there is reasonably priced. You can definitely have a very filling meal for under $10. It's also a cool place to go people watching. It's certainly a local hang out for lots of Jewish kids and adults. And maybe even a Jewish gangster? (On my way out, I saw an older man having dinner. His shirt was unbuttoned to his stomach and around his neck he wore an enormous diamond encrusted Star of David on a gold chain. You don't see that very often in Brookline). At any rate, check out Rami's for quick cheap and very decent Middle Eastern food.