🇲🇦 Morocco and 🇪🇬 Egypt · 🇶🇦 Qatar Filmed
Bavel
Middle Eastern in Arts District. Filed under Middle Eastern and North African.
- Address
- 500 Mateo St, Los Angeles, CA 90013
- Neighborhood
- Arts District
- Cuisine
- Middle Eastern
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🇲🇦 Morocco and 🇪🇬 Egypt Episode 9, filmed
What to order
Wagyu beef cheek tagine over koshari rice, Moroccan carrots with rose pickled beets and feta, chermoula grilled turnips, baba ghanouj with dukkah, hummus masabacha, eggplant tempura, and the wood fired pita and laffa.
Drew's take
“Two countries, one restaurant, highlighting North Africa and maybe my new favorite restaurant in all of LA. They put a Moroccan tagine over Egyptian koshari rice, and that restaurant is Bavel.”
Drew Nagda, from the Morocco episode on Instagram
Episode 9, filmed for Ezra's birthday with Drew's sisters in town, which is how they ended up ordering most of the menu. The star was the wagyu beef cheek tagine, braised in a pomegranate and cinnamon sauce over koshari rice, Egypt's national dish. Also on the table: Moroccan carrots with rose pickled beets and feta, grilled turnips with chermoula, baba ghanouj topped with dukkah, the hummus masabacha, wood fired pita and laffa, and an eggplant tempura Drew calls toddler friendly. His caption says it plainly: Bavel may be our new favorite restaurant in all of LA.
On the pitch 2022 World Cup semifinalists, the first African team in history to reach a World Cup semifinal. Group C.
🇶🇦 Qatar Up next, not visited yet
What to order
Machboos, harees, luqaimat with date syrup.
Why it's on the list
Qatar hosted the last World Cup. Now we're eating like they do.
On the pitch Hosted 2022. The first WC in the Middle East. Group B.