Yemen Café

Fateh ($15), bread bits cooked in gravy and topped with minced lamb, was our large group's clear favorite on a cool, drizzly evening.

Aseed ($8 as a side dish), a giant dumpling adrift in gravy, kept the carb counter turning. Apart from a salsa-like hot sauce that sat at the ready, however, we found a certain flatness in the flavors as we made our way through the hommos, babaghanoug, and foul ("fool"; $6 each), the vegetable stew called salta ($12 with chicken), and roasted lamb ($15).

During a scouting visit on a full stomach, I'd seen a solo diner applying himself, at leisure, to a full order of aseed, with lamb, some leeks, and the whipped fenugreek condiment called houlbeh. A different experience, surely, and worth another visit.

Yemen Café
176 Atlantic Ave. (Clinton-Court Sts.), Cobble Hill, Brooklyn
718-834-9533

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