Sunday, September 17, 2006

Sultan's Restaurant

The main Sultan's location in Hannah Plaza has a bread oven. Yes, fresh hot hand-made pita bread. (At least when the oven is fired up -- which it usually is at dinner time.) A big basket of hot bread, a bowl of their lentil soup and a plate of babaganouj, and you might forget to leave room for the generously portioned main course. (I often take home a huge box of leftovers.)


The lean and well seasoned grilled meats are premiere here. There's lamb and beef and chicken. Probably one of the more popular dinners is the Chicken Shawarma. (Shawarma is what many of us think of a gyro meat: chopped and seasoned meat formed into a big roll, and then put on a hot rotisserie. The chef cuts off strips as the meat sears and sizzles.) All the chicken dishes are served with this intensely garlicky yoghurt sauce that is a favorite. The Shish Combo (pictured below) provides samples of a couple of the grilled meats, and both kinds of sauce.


A few other favorite dishes: The salads are good, and I think they have the best fattouch in town -- this is a large salad of crunchy toasted pita bread, along with the usual tomatoes, peppers, onions and lettuce. Gallaya (below) is another of my favorites -- a cross between a stirfry and a stew with chicken in mushrooms, tomatoes, carrots and seasonings.


Sultan's also serves good fries, when you have kids or other cautious eaters with you.

They have two locations in the Lansing area:
Sultan's -- Hannah Plaza on Hagadorn in East Lansing
Sultan's Express -- 305 S Washington Sq, in downtown Lansing.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just feel the need to recommend the SHISH KAFTA as well. Skewers of ground lamb with onions and parsley, charbroiled with vegetables and served with tahina sauce. Yum!

Anonymous said...

I just got done reading this blog, and I must say that I am a server there and we DO NOT serve burgers! We do have french fries as a side but most certainly do not serve burgers! It's no wonder I've had customers walk in and be angry with me for saying we don't have burgers!

The Eastside Food Geek said...

My apologies. I've fixed the review to just say "good fries."

It's a really old review, and I don't recall where I got the impression they served burgers.