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Reviewers rave about the Acla, a standout dish that anchors the menu with bold, authentic flavor. The overall vibe is warm and inviting, perfect for a casual, satisfying Middle Eastern street food fix.
“This is the namesake sandwich of the place, one of the spoon sandwiches. It's filled with spiced lentils, feta, and a mayonnaise salad with little vegetables. The lentils are perfectly cooked — still firm, not mushy, with a slight spiciness. The feta cuts the heat and adds a pleasant acidity. The lentils are cooked with tomato, maybe tomato paste — you can see the bread soaked in tomato sauce. You eat it mainly with a spoon, scooping out the filling. The Roscioli bread absorbs the sauce perfectly. It's a complete meal.”
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AQLA is a hidden gem in Monteverde serving authentic Yemeni street food run by three women — mother, daughter, and a friend — with fresh, handmade dishes and incredible spice blends that are light and flavorful, not heavy.
Dishes mentioned
Samosa di Carne
These samosas are fried on the spot, with a perfect filo pastry — super crunchy and very thin. The meat is well-spiced but not heavy at all, unlike other places where the spices weigh you down all day. It's not greasy at all, look at my fingers — no oil. Light but extremely flavorful. I can't stop eating them.
Panino con Pollo Marinato
This sandwich uses Roscioli bread — you can immediately recognize it. They left a lot of bread at the bottom and a small cap on top. It's filled with marinated chicken, garlic sauce, pink sauce, french fries, and pickles. The garlic sauce is incredible — not the usual one, it's browned, grayish, something gives it an amazing kick. The chicken is perfectly cooked, golden and browned. The pickles are different from the ones you find in hamburger sandwiches. The fries stay crunchy because there aren't too many. This is a 9.5 out of 10 sandwich. I didn't expect this place to be this good.
Maher
This is one of the spoon sandwiches — they told me to eat it with a spoon first, then eat the bread. It's already assembled as a sandwich. It has chicken, onion, peppers, pomegranate molasses, cheese, and lettuce. The first thing I smell is the peppers. It's more like a stew, like a braised meat compared to the previous one which was drier and relied on sauce. You can tell it's slow-cooked. There's a slight spicy finish. The creaminess is incredible. I'd skip the lettuce leaf at the bottom because it gets cooked — better without it.
- Crema di Barbabietola con Mandorle Fritte
Nada
This is a vegetarian sandwich named after the singer Nada. It's filled with falafel, pink sauce, tahini, tomato, french fries, lettuce, and onion. The falafel is homemade — huge, coarse, you can really taste the Middle Eastern flavors. It's so hard to find homemade falafel of this level; most places use bagged falafel that are dry and inedible. The onion is amazing, sweet and sour. The vegetables stay fresh — the lettuce is still vivid, the tomato is fresh. The falafel are like bombs, three giant ones. The pink sauce is subtle, which I like because the tahini shines. The fries are superfluous here because the falafel already gives crunch.
