We left Friday night on a mission: finding a place to have dinner that none of us has tried before. A seemingly easy task for four people, but all proposals that we could think of had been tried by at least one of us. We opted to drive down Central Ave to find a place. On our way to a Thai place, we saw the Crescent Moon Bakery, an Afghani restaurant on 2339 Central Ave NE.
The multiple neon signs on the window were somewhat at odds. One advertised the best pizza next to another one that read frozen pizza. Anyway, after seeing the pictures on the entrance de decided to give it a try.
Not sure of what to order, we chose the sampler platter for four. I should say the picture below is very misleading. This was a HUGE platter. The four of us ate to our heart's content and still took a to-go box that could have fed another two.
In addition to the food on that platter, the meal came with a salad and some pitas. $60 bought us the meal for four and four bottles of water (no liquor, wine or beer). Overall a great meal. My favorite part was the roasted goat stew on the white bowl. It was tender and juicy. The lamb sausage (hiding behind the gyro meat at three o'clock on the platter), was nicely cooked, showing just a smidgen of pink in the center.
We left with two gyro calzones to go (dinner tonight) and the desire to come back to try their award wining ethnic pizza, the house specialty, with Eggplant, Mushrooms, and Black Olives.
Update (May 15): Just yesterday we tried their signature eggplant pizza. It was barely OK, sot as good as their more traditional middle-eastern food. It was light (thin crust, no meat and not as much cheese as you usually see in American pizzas), but still not deserving of the Best Ethnic Pizza award it received.
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