• Al Sham

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Serves meat, vegan options available. Middle Eastern restaurant, with many vegan dishes, such as salads, hummus, baba ghanoush, falafel, stuffed vine leaves, Arabic-style bread, and rice sides. Open Mon-Sun 11:00am-11:00pm.


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9 Reviews

First Review by shivya

CSL

Points +307

Vegan
18 Nov 2023

Lebanese in Dushanbe

Good understanding of vegan. Happy to cater to vegan request, although only 6 dishes stated as vegan. Whole meal pita was freshly baked & delicious. Felafels were small but tasty. Hommous was good.

Pros: Vegan options, English menu.

Cons: Not super cheap for the size of the portions. , Also serves non-veg stuff.

heuschrecke

Points +930

Vegan
03 Oct 2023

Nice atmosphere

Under normal circumstances I would've been disappointed by the food but as a vegan in Central Asia you lower your standards :)
There was a wide choice of vegan options, the staff knew English and was nice and attentive. The food was okay, the prices too high.

nicolathomas

Points +691

Vegan
18 Jul 2023

Great! Lots of choice nice atmosphere!

Helpful staff, answered questions about the menu. Lots of dishes to choose from. Delicious!

Pros: Lots of choices! Loved lentil soup and muhummara, Have non-alcoholic pina colada!, I think good value

Cons: I didn't love the baba ganoush

Ardavon

Points +292

Vegan
13 Jun 2023

Freshly sliced away from the Mediterranean and delivered to your table within minutes

This place has no business being this good. Fresh, Delicious and Plentiful

Pros: Lots of great vegan mezze options, fresh and delicious

Bastien

Points +159

Vegan
10 Sep 2022

Tasty food with vegan options

Nice and relaxing place, tasty food, english speaking staff

Pros: Vegan options , English speaking staff, Nice and relaxing place

BrusselsSprout

Points +83

Vegan
16 Aug 2022

Be careful… old reheated food

After some time in rural Tajikistan, I was excited to try something else than just potatoes and vegetables. However, this restaurant ended up being the only one during my 3 week trip to give me severe food poisoning… the various mezze dishes came very quickly on the table, so I suspect most of them were quite old and just slightly reheated (e.g baraks filled with spinach). The food tasted generally ok, but the baraks and falafels were not very good. The orange juice had a weird taste, maybe the fruits they used had gone bad.

Updated from previous review on 2022-08-15

maaikereist

Points +86

Mostly Veg
02 Jun 2022

Great Arabic food

Really enjoyed the wide choice of good quality vegetarian mezze - especially the mutabbal, hummus and falafel were great. Also very friendly service.

jkbc

Points +37

Vegetarian
03 Sep 2019

Great!

Really the exact same experience as the previous reviewer. Recommended!

shivya

Points +67

Vegan
18 Aug 2019

Good Lebanese food, staff speak English

After 10 days of just about surviving on boiled potatoes and salads in rural Tajikistan, I was excited to eat hummus beiruti and babaganoush with fresh hot pita bread, couscous and fresh apple carrot juice at Al Sham - all pretty good considering it’s Dushanbe. Close to the central area. Menu also has other cold appetisers like stuffed vine leaves, mauhamarra and a falafel sandwich that can be done without mayonnaise. Nice ambiance to chill outdoors and do shisha too. Staff speaks enough English to customise dishes if needed.

Pros: Typical Lebanese options, Nice space to chill, Staff speaks some English to discuss ingredients

Cons: Vegan options not marked




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