falafel phoenix best falafel best phoenix best falafel phoenix best phoenix falafel phoenix falafel best phoenix best falafel\n\n6 Star Falafel ! IT'S GREEN!\n\nSeriously the best in the valley, perhaps anywhere. AND IT'S GREEN!\n\nIt really does look like some hippies may have cooked up a batch of \"Magic Falafel\" in the back of their VW camper bus in the Shakedown Street parking lot of a Dead concert. I'm sure it's more benign spices making these garbanzo flour patties the color of money, grass, and a soccer player's ass, but they are a mos def a HOMEMADE recipe. I'm not saying all light brown falafel is from a box, but that's what most gyro places are doing. \n 8^ P`.',.` ---pPbblltptllptbt\nI can do box all by myself.\n\nVarious kebobs, dolmas, greek and tabouli salads, pita sandwiches -- \nthe menu is classic greek fast food deli style, which just like the strip mall pad they occupy, the menu is a bit smaller than it used to be. \nThey've changed ownership and also pared down the size of their store significantly since their heyday. \nYusef's was Best of Phoenix by New Times, or AZ Republic, or Get Out, etc, quite a bit circa 90, 92, 93, 95, 96, 2001 if I remember the signage. Since then, things have gotten tough in the American economy for a niche market of Middle Eastern folks. I sure hope they didn't suffer from former customers purposefully avoiding them after 2001 for any sort of discriminatory reasons -- what a shame that would be!\n\nPerusing the aisles of the grocery while waiting for your food to be prepared is like being flashed to an indoor version of an exotic marketplace bazaar (like in the first Indiana Jones movie, or hey, like Shakedown Street) full of strange and enticing shapes and smells and textures, foreign languages, and lots of \"What the heck is THIS!?\". \n\nSpice grinders! Pomegranate juice! Curry powder! Turkish coffee pots! Anchovie fillets! Fresh Olives! Tamarind extract!\nI'm ready for the PARTY! Where's the Houkka? THERE IT IS! Up on the wall, several to choose from actually.\n\nMy green falafel sandwich was freshly made, hot, and delicious.\nStill the best falafel in the Phoenix area (but sadly, it was found to be \"Magic\" only in it's tasty savory goodness). Only $5.99 with a soda, or check with the owner on bartering your knit sweater-making skills.\n\nCan anyone recommend a good Goo Ball vendor for dessert?
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