Damascus, like its neighbor Sahadi's, is a mainstay on a stretch of Atlantic
Avenue dense with Middle Eastern markets. The bakery is small but the
selection, displayed in a long, blue-paneled glass display case, is almost
grandiose, offering brick-oven baked pitas, vegetable and meat pies, baklava,
bird's nests, kanafa rolls (shredded wheat pastries filled with custard or nut
paste)...
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In Short This no-frills Syrian bread and pastry shop has been family owned since 1930. Crates of whole wheat, garlic, sesame, and regular pitas at rock-bottom prices line one wall, and a friendly counter person attends glass display cases for honey-rich pastries such as walnut lady fingers and pistachio birds nests, or traditional Middle Eastern cookies, such as mamool and gorayba....
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Posted by Kara Zuaro
on April 13, 2009, (Edited January 17, 2006)
Italy has its olive and hazelnut oil, France has chestnut spread, Greece has fresh filo dough, Morocco has couscous, and China has roasted soybeans, but Sahadi’s in Brooklyn has it all.