Had dinner last night at Anatolia Cafe, the Turkish restaurant in Cleveland Heights. A satisfying treat as always. When my companion and I had just about licked our plates clean it dawned on me that our meal had a theme. Everything we’d eaten was rolled or stuffed. There were grape leaves, folded around rice, pine nuts, and currents; crispy sigara borek- a warm savory cousin of the cannoli filled with parsley-flecked feta; my roasted eggplant stuffed with ground beef and tomoatoes; her cabbage rolls with garlic yogurt sauce.
Wrapping, rolling and stuffing is a way of preparing food that shows up in so many different cuisines. Anybody want to throw out your faves or suggest places to try something interesting?
Quisquella La Bella Restaurante is a very good Dominican Restaurante. The address is: 4616 Clark Avenue, in Cleveland. 216-799-8436
Please let me know what you think when you go. I’ve been there about half a dozen times, always with some of my Puerto Rican students. They swear by it.
I will definitely go for a visit. Thank you so much for sharing the information. That’s what keeps this blog and the book going!