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Authentic Lebanese Cuisine ———————————— Combination Platters Lunch Specials ————————————— All combos served with your choice of soup or salad and fries or rice. Combo For Two • 29.99 served all day Salad Choices are House Salad or Fattoush. 2 pcs. of shish kafta, 2 shish tawook, with choice of soup or salad Any substitutions additional charges may apply. 1 beef or lamb kabob and a small hummus. Substitute rice with side of grilled vegetables Salad Choices are House Salad or Fattoush. Any substitutions additional charges may apply. Substitute rice with side of grilled vegetables for 3.49. for 3.99. Substitute hummus with baba ghanoush for 1.75. Shawarma Combo For Two • 28.99 Chicken Shawarma • 12.99 GF Chicken Breast • 13.99 Tender marinated chicken breast cooked on vertical Add Lemon Oregano Sauce 1.50 Chicken and beef shawarma spit, then thinly sliced and served with rice, hummus, Charbroiled marinated chicken breast served with and a small hummus. H and garlic sauce. rice, hummus and garlic sauce. u m V Vegetarian Combo For Two • 24.99 Meat Shawarma • 13.99 GF Grape Leaves m Marinated lean meat thinly sliced and served with Beef or Vegetarian • 12.99 Grape leaves, spinach pies, falafel, baba ghanoush u rice, hummus, and tahini sauce. Served with rice, yogurt, and hummus. s and hummus. & GF Shish Kabob Plate Falafel • 12.99 L Chickpeas, onions and cilantro ground with herbs, a Choice of Beef or Lamb • 14.49 m Tender lean meat charbroiled with our house spices. spices, and deep fried. Served with rice, hummus b Served with rice and hummus. and tahini sauce. Chicken Tawook • 13.99 V Mujadra • 12.99 Meat Sambousek Add Lemon Oregano Sauce 1.50 Cooked lentils with sautéed onions and cracked Charbroiled marinated chicken breast served with wheat, topped with caramelized onions. Served rice, hummus, and garlic sauce. with hummus, rice, and side of yogurt. Shish Kafta Plate • 12.99 V Mujadra with Rice • 12.99 Charbroiled ground lamb and beef mixed with Cooked lentils and rice with sautéed onions, ——————————— onions, parsley and house spices. Served with topped with caramelized onions, served with Family Platters hummus and rice. hummus and rice. V Vegetarian Platter • 12.99 V Vegetarian Ghallaba (stir fry) • Sampler Platter • $54.99 Grape leaves, spinach pie, falafel, hummus, and rice. 12.99 1 Lamb or Beef Shish Kabob, 1 Shish Kafta, 1 Shish Tawook, Sautéed vegetables, herbs and spices served with Chicken Tenders • 12.99 Kibbeh Fried rice and hummus. Chicken tenderloins, battered and served with rice Chicken and Meat Shawarma, Hummus, Baba Ghanoush, 6 Grape Leaves, Mixed GrillMixed Platter and hummus. Ghallaba (stir fry) 4 Falafel, 4 Sambousek, Salad and Rice or Fries. Choice of Lamb or Chicken • 13.99 Sautéed chicken or lamb tips with vegetables, herb and spices, served with rice and hummus. Vegetarian Platters • $49.99 Hummus, Baba Ghanoush, Fattoush Salad, Tabbouleh, 6 Grape Leaves, Side Orders ————— Fruit Smoothies —— 6 Falafel, 6 Vegetarian Sambousek, and Rice with Almonds. V Rice • 4.49 Strawberry Smoothie • 4.49 Garlic • 2 oz 1.25 Strawberries, banana and honey. Kabob Platter #1 • $79.99 Garlic • 8 oz 4.49 Healthy Smoothie • 4.49 2 Lamb or Beef Shish Kabobs, 2 Skewers Shish Kafta, 2 Shish Tawook, House Bread Fries • 4.49 Milk, strawberries, bananas and honey Chicken and Meat Shawarma, 6 Falafel, 6 Grape Leaves, 6 Sambousek, Cheese Sambousek 3 pcs pita • 1.50 Crushed Lemonade • 4.49 Rice with Almonds or Fries, and Salad. ½ dozen of fresh pita • 2.49 Fresh orange, lemon, sweetened with your choice of sugar or honey. One dozen of fresh pita • 4.49 Grilled vegetables • 4.99 Mango Smoothie • 4.49 Mango, banana and honey. Authentic Lebanese Cuisine Raw vegetables • 4.99 Kabob Platter #2 • Dressing • 2 oz 1.25 Sweet Sunshine Smoothie • 4.49 $132.99 44645 Five Mile • Plymouth, MI 48170 Mango, bananas, strawberries, and honey. Bowl house dressing • 8.99 3 Lamb or Beef Shish Kabobs, Side lemon oregano • 2.50 4 Shish Tawook, 4 Skewers Side pickles • 3.49 Shish Kafta, Chicken and Meat Phone (734) 459-7258 Side turnips • 3.49 Shawarma, Hummus, Baba Side mixed pickles and turnips • 3.49 Ghanoush, Grape Leaves, Fax (734) 459-7269 Soups ——————— Sambousek, Salad, Rice with Almonds or Fries. V GF Crushed Lentil Soup Carry Out and Dine In Cup 3.99 Bowl 4.99 Quart 9.99 Soup Of The Day Catering Available Cup 4.49 Bowl 5.49 Quart 10.99 GF Gluten Free Ask your server about menu items that are cooked to order or served raw. Consuming raw or under cooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborneillness. V Vegetarian Produced By Best Choice 1-800-783-0990 48763 www.lafreshgrill.com Vegetarian Appetizers ——————————— Vegetarian Sandwiches ——————————— Chicken Chicken V NEW Cheese Sambousek • 6 pcs 7.99 GF Vegetarian Grape Leaves • Make any sandwich a combo for 4.49. Oregano Manushi • 6.99 Lebanese cheese sticks stuffed with three kind of Small 6.49 Large 8.99 A combo includes one side of the following: Mixed oregano with sesame and olive oil on thick house Shawarma Breast cheese and deep fried to crispiness. Grape leaves stuffed with a mixture of vegetables, rice, fries, soup or salad and bread served with feta cheese lettuce and tomatoes. Plate 17.49 rice and house spices. Add Lemon GF Hummus • Small 5.99 Large 8.49 a soft drink or bottled water, 16.99 Add fresh seasonal vegetables for 4.99 V Spinach Pies • 6.99 Cheese Manushi • 7.49 Oregano Sauce upgrade to fruit smoothie for extra 3.50. Tender marinated Chickpeas blended with tahini sauce, garlic and Spinach, onions, lemon juice, olive oil, special Melted mozzarella cheese on thick house bread rolled with 1.50 Salad Choices are House Salad or Fattoush. chicken breast lemon juice. seasonings stuffed and baked into dough. cucumbers, tomatoes and olives. Charbroiled marinated Any substitutions additional charges may apply. cooked on vertical GF SPICY Hummus • Small 6.49 Large 8.99 GF Falafel • 6 pcs 6.99 12 pcs 10.99 chicken breast Chickpeas, onions and cilantro ground with Mujadra • 5.99 spit, thinly sliced GF Baba Ghanoush • Small 6.99 Large 9.49 Falafel Pita • 5.99 served with herbs, spices, and deep fried. Served with lettuce, Chickpeas, onions and cilantro ground with herbs, spices, Cooked lentils with sautéed onions and cracked wheat and served with Charbroiled eggplant mixed with tahini sauce, tomatoes, pickles and tahini sauce. garlic sauce. garlic and lemon juice. and deep fried. Rolled in a pita with lettuce, tomatoes, rolled in a pita with lettuce and tomatoes. garlic sauce. V Mujadra • 7.99 pickles, and tahini sauce. Cooked lentils with sautéed onions and cracked Mujadra with Rice • 5.99 V wheat, topped with caramelized onions and Veggie Grape Leaves Pita • 5.49 Cooked green lentils with sautéed onions and rice rolled in served with a side of yogurt. NEW Rolled in a pita bread with choice of hummus or a pita with lettuce and tomatoes. Vegetable GF Mujadra with Rice • 7.99 baba ghanoush. Sambousek Cooked lentils with sautéed onions and rice, Vegetarian Ghallaba (stir fry) • 6.99 ————————— Entrées ————————— topped with caramelized onions and served 6 pcs 7.99 Falafel Deluxe Pita • 6.99 Sautéed vegetables, with herbs and spices rolled in a pita All entrées served with your choice of soup or salad and fries or rice. Vegetable with yogurt. with rice. Chickpeas, onions and cilantro ground with herbs, spices, Salad Choices are House Salad or Fattoush. rolls stuffed V Starter Combination # 1 • 8.49 and deep fried. Rolled in a pita with hummus, tabbouleh with mixed Combination of hummus, baba ghanoush and Any substitutions additional charges may apply. and pickles. vegetables and tabbouleh. Substitute rice with side of grilled vegetables for 3.99. deep fried to V Starter Combination #2 • 13.99 crispiness. Combination of hummus, baba ghanoush, ———————— Non-Vegetarian Sandwiches Mixed Shawarma Plate • 17.99 Grape Leaves tabbouleh, grape leaves, falafel and spinach pie. Chicken and meat shawarma served with garlic and Beef or Vegetarian • 15.99 Make any sandwich a combo for 4.49. Ghallaba (stir fry) tahini sauce. A combo includes one side of the following: Choice of Lamb or Chicken• 6.99 V Vegetarian Platter • 16.99 ————————— Non-Vegetarian Appetizers rice, fries, soup or salad and Meat Shawarma Plate • 17.99 Sautéed chicken or lamb tips with vegetables, herbs and Grape leaves, spinach pies, hummus, baba ghanoush, a soft drink or bottled water, Marinated lean meat thinly sliced, served with rice, onions NEW Meat Sambousek • 6 pcs 7.99 GF Hummus with Meat Shawarma • 13.49 spices rolled in a pita with rice. and falafel. Meat rolls stuffed with ground meat, onions, upgrade to fruit smoothie for extra 3.50. and tahini sauce. tomato, herbs and deep fried to crispiness. GF Baba Ghanoush with Salad Choices are House Salad or Fattoush. Meat Shawarma • 13.49 Shish Kabob Plate Choice Lamb or Beef • 18.49 Ghallaba (stir fry) Vegetarian 15.99 GF Hummus with Lamb • 12.99 Any substitutions additional charges may apply. Tender lean meat charbroiled with our house spices. Sautéed tender lamb tips, with pine nuts and special BBQ Chicken Wings • 10.25 Extra Garlic 1.00 Chicken | Lamb 17.99 seasonings, served over hummus. Crispy chicken wings tossed with BBQ sauce. Sautéed vegetables, herbs and spices served Chicken Shawarma Pita • 6.49 Chicken Tawook • 17.99 GF Baba Ghanoush with Lamb • 13.99 Add Lemon Oregano Sauce 1.50 with rice. Sautéed tender lamb tips, with pine nuts and special Mediterranean Chicken Wings • 10.25 Rolled in a pita with garlic and pickles.
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