12 Chairs Cafe

Israeli restaurant, 56 MacDougal St, New York, NY

VeganScore 70 · 4 vegan main dishes

Menu

Mains

• Vegetarian Couscous — Slowly cooked vegetables in a Middle Eastern broth, served over couscous Vegan
• Cauliflower — Tossed with fresh oregano, jalapeño peppers and red onion over tahini Vegan
• Baladi Eggplant — Topped with tahini and pine nuts Vegan
• Arayes — Grilled pita filled with minced lamb, served with a spicy cherry tomato salad and tahini
• Sea Bream a La Plancha — Served with mashed potatoes and fresh herbs salad with harissa lemon sauce
• Shipudim — Grilled chicken skewer, served with a spicy cherry tomato salad and tahini and potato wedges
• Chicken Schnitzel — Served with mashed potatoes and honey mustard dressing
• Grilled Chicken — Served with potato wedges and honey mustard dressing
• Stuffed Cabbage — Filled with ground chicken, rice and vegetables; served with mashed potatoes
• Pino's Burger — Our butcher's secret burger recipe with 12 chairs dressing on a brioche bun, served with sweet potato
• 12 Chairs Lamburger — Mixed with middle eastern spices, feta cheese, red onion, Israeli pickles and spicy mayo on a brioche bun, served with hand cut fries
• Moroccan Fish — Filet of sea bream slowly cooked in spicy Moroccan tomato sauce, served with couscous
• Pita Schnitzel — Chicken schnitzel eggplant, pickles, matbucha and tahini
• Pita Sabich — Fried eggplant, hard-boiled egg, Israeli salad, mixed herbs, amba and tahini
• Pita Tunisian — Tunisian-style tuna salad with potato, hard-boiled egg, harissa and tahini
• Dreamy Halloumi — Grilled halloumi with tomato, za'atar and garlic confit
• Sammy's Lamb Kebabs — Lamb mixed with Middle Eastern spices, grilled and served on a pita bread with tahini
• Pelmeni — Homemade traditional Russian meat dumplings with sour cream
• Pierogi — Homemade traditional Russian potato dumplings with fried onions and sour cream
• Hamin (Winter Only) — Traditional Jewish stew simmered overnight with meat, bone marrow, potatoes, beans, barley and a hard-boiled egg

Breakfast

• Oatmeal — Served with fresh seasonal fruits and cinnamon Vegan
• Israeli Breakfast — Two eggs any style served with Israeli salad, assorted dips and bread; includes coffee and freshly squeezed juice
• Shakshuka — Two eggs poached in a spicy Moroccan tomato sauce, cooked and served in a skillet
• Eggs Siniya — Two sunny side eggs, cooked with tahini sauce and served in a skillet, served with Israeli salad, green olives and pita bread
• Borek — Traditional cigar dough filled with potato puree and runny egg, folded into a pocket and fried
• Avocado Toast — Harissa flakes and feta cheese
• Smoked Salmon Sandwich — Ciabatta bread, scallion, cream cheese, tomato, red onion and capers
• Smoked Salmon Scrambled — Soft-scrambled eggs over toasted Challah bread, served with smoked salmon and capers
• Western Omelette — Tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, peppers and ham
• Egg Whites Omelette — Scallion and fresh herbs
• Two Eggs Any Style — With a side of ham / bacon / smoked salmon
• French Toast — Challah bread; served with fresh seasonal fruits and cinnamon
• Pancakes — Served with fresh seasonal fruits
• Granola — Served with fresh seasonal fruits and yogurt
• Jachnun — Hand-rolled Yemenite dough cooked overnight with a touch of date honey, served with a hard-boiled egg and crushed tomatoes (one piece)
• Masabacha — Slowly cooked chickpeas, tahini, spicy lemon, cumin, onion and a brown egg (served warm)

Starters

• 12 Chairs Salad — Mesclun, avocado, grapefruit, roasted pecans and 12 Chairs vinaigrette Vegan
• Israeli Salad / Green Salad Vegan
• Matbucha — Slowly cooked tomatoes, garlic and green hot peppers Vegan
• Tabouli Salad — Bulgur, cucumbers, onions, fresh herbs, pine nuts and pistachios Vegan
• Falafel & Tahini — Falafel served over tomato tahini, garlic and parsley Vegan
• Spicy Platter — Harissa, schug, hot pepper and garlic confit Vegan
• Israeli Pickles — Traditional cured cucumbers, olives and peppers Vegan
• Hummus Vegan
• Hummus Falafel Vegan
• Hummus Mushrooms & Onions Vegan
• Hot Borscht Soup
• Yemenite Chicken Soup — Chicken soup slowly cooked with Middle Eastern spices
• Soup of The Day
• Shouk Salad — Cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, radishes, red onions, oregano, kalamata olives and feta cheese
• Tunisian-Style Nicoise Salad — Tuna salad, romaine lettuce, potatoes, green beans, cherry tomatoes, kalamata olives, radishes, capers, preserved lemon and hard-boiled egg
• Greek Salad — Romaine lettuce, cucumber, tomato, onion, kalamata olives, feta cheese and za'atar croutons
• Grilled Chicken Salad — Mesclun, tomato, cucumber, red onion, mushrooms and honey-mustard vinaigrette
• Schnitzel Salad — Breaded chicken breast over Israeli salad topped with tahini
• Labaneh — Traditional yogurt cheese, olive oil and za'atar
• Babaganoush — Grilled eggplant mixed with garlic and aioli
• Beets Salad — Tossed with fresh herbs and garlic, topped with pine nuts and goat cheese
• Hummus Meat — Ground beef, pine nuts and mushrooms

Desserts

• Malabi — Our signature coconut-milk pudding with pomegranate syrup, coconut flakes and pistachios Vegan
• Knafeh — Kadayifi, labneh cheese, orange blossom syrup and pistachios
• Chocolate Mousse — Belgian chocolate, brandy, angel-hair style halva and pistachios
• Cheesecake — Israeli style cheesecake served with fresh strawberries
• Cheese Blintzes — Homemade traditional Eastern-European blintzes, filled with ricotta cheese

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