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$15 for $30 Worth of Middle Eastern Dinner Fare at Shish Kabob
Eating international fare locally eliminates the woes associated with transatlantic travel, such as jet lag and oar splinters. Stamp your palate’s passport with today’s Groupon: for $15, you get $30 worth of Middle Eastern fare during dinner at Shish Kabob.
At Shish Kabob, winner of Nashville Scene’s Best Persian Food, Iraqi Kurdish restaurateur Hikmat Gazi oversees a menu brimming with authentic Middle Eastern fare. Spoons zip up their wet suits before diving into koresht ghaymeh stew ($6.99) and surface bearing a sunken treasure of cubed beef, sun-dried limes, and tomatoes. Charbroiled skewers impale chunks of whole cornish hen ($12.99) or the salmon shish kebab accompanied by green rice ($10.99). Patrons lounge in wooden chairs amid orange walls as they visit more adventurous culinary territory with a lamb liver skewer ($7.99) or whisk tongues to Greece with gyros plates ($7.99) and falafel ($3.99–$7.99). Cups of turkish coffee ($1.49) complement persian ice cream ($3.49), which tosses a flavor bouquet of saffron and rose water into eager mouths.
Nashville Scene also chronicles Hikmat’s absorbing journey from an adolescence spent in a Turkish refugee camp during the Gulf War to his triplicate success in the restaurant business. After working with the U.S. military in Iraq, Hikmat returned stateside to purvey a spread of Middle Eastern fare imbued with authentic spices and set amid traditional décor from Kurdistan.
