Yafa Restaurant and Market pairs a sit-down Mediterranean menu with an attached retail market, tucked next to a barber shop in the Kendall area. The beef kebab plate — skewers drizzled with tahini, served with rice, tabbouleh, and pita baked in a wood-fire oven — anchors a menu that also includes chicken and beef shawarma plates, a falafel plate, and sides like hummus and baba ghanoush.
The kitchen's signature chicken shawarma and lamb mansaf sit alongside fan-favorite falafel and hummus. Meals run toward Levantine home cooking and are often finished with a cup of spiced white coffee, a cardamom-and-ginger blend served hot.
The market side stocks Mediterranean pantry staples — halva, grape leaves, falafel mix — along with hookah sets for sale, making Yafa as much a shop as a place to sit down and eat. It runs as a small operation, so service moves at its own pace.
The kitchen's signature chicken shawarma and lamb mansaf sit alongside fan-favorite falafel and hummus. Meals run toward Levantine home cooking and are often finished with a cup of spiced white coffee, a cardamom-and-ginger blend served hot.
The market side stocks Mediterranean pantry staples — halva, grape leaves, falafel mix — along with hookah sets for sale, making Yafa as much a shop as a place to sit down and eat. It runs as a small operation, so service moves at its own pace.