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Falafels served with pita and your choice of salads are a prime attraction at Sunrise Pita & Grill.
Falafels served with pita and your choice of salads are a prime attraction at Sunrise Pita & Grill.
Rochelle Koff / Miami Herald Staff

rkoff@MiamiHerald.com

Falafel fans, here’s a spot for you. The golden brown chickpea fritters star at Sunrise Pita & Grill, which has been serving fast, fresh and authentic Israeli street fare since 1988.

Owner Avi Sharabi offers a varied menu of inexpensive glatt kosher Middle Eastern specialties in this small, unassuming storefront — you can easily feast for under $10; the most expensive item is a steak platter for $16.99.

Everything is made on the premises except for the bread and baklava. Delicious handmade falafels, fried to order, come on a platter, as a solo snack or in a sandwich on either pita, lafa (a large thin pita wrap without the pocket) or baguette. Then you can add any number of salads and sauces — roasted eggplant, pickled cabbage, tomato and cucumber, hummus, tahini (sesame seed paste) or schug (a Yemenite hot sauce).

You can also order items like shawarma (turkey cooked on a vertical spit), shish kebab, chicken cutlets and a Jerusalem mix (of chicken, turkey and grilled onions) served on a platter with your choice of salads.

Entrees include All in One Mini Plates, which offer a huge amount of food, the Health Corner or Hummus Meat Specials. Our hummus steak plate brings a mound of lean, juicy beef smothered in garlicky hummus —too much of a good thing. Next time, we’d get the steak with hummus on the side.

Among starters, try the Moroccan cigars, crisp tubes filled with soy meat, stuffed grape leaves or baba ghanoush, the lush eggplant spread. And for dessert, bring your bubbeh some sweet baklava.

Sunrise Pita & Grill, 2680 N. University Dr. Sunrise; 954-748-0090; 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday toThursday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday; appetizers and sides $2.50-$6.99, salads $3.99-$9.99, sandwiches $5.99-$9.99, plates $9.95-$16.99, kids’ menu $3.99-$9.99.

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