Hummus Xpress is a small casual eatery in Tempe AZ that serves up quick healthy and delicious Middle Eastern Mediterranean Foods. Everything is forking delicious. The owner is a former professional basketball player that decided he liked cooking, turned trained chef and makes dishes from his Lebanon homeland.

You walk in and you see a whole line of many pans of food like a forking buffet behind glass. You see mostly vegetable dishes but they do have some meat too. They also bake their own fresh pitas in the regular variety and whole wheat. Falafels are cooked forking fresh to order.

You order…….. (at the time of this review these are the prices…)

a pita plate ($6.45) – 1 protein, rice 3 fill ins, toppings and sauce

a bowl ($7.95) – 1 protein, rice, 3 fill ins, toppings, sauce and a pita (like the plate but about 1/2 the size)

a salad ($8.45) 1 protein, rice, 3 fill ins, toppings, sauce, a pita over kale and romaine

or a plate ($9.95) 2 proteins, 4 fill ins, toppings, sauce and a pita

I like getting the plate so I can forking try as much as possible and sometimes I just bring the rest home so I get two lunches.

The protein choices are  spit fired roasted lamb gyro, marinated lemon and herb chicken, high quality 15 hour beef with Aleppo pepper and Lebanese Falafels that are fava bean & chick pea with herbs and spice. You’ll see many hot prepared vegetables that are called “the fill ins” depending on the days selection they might be such as spicy carrots, fried eggplant, garlic herb potatoes, and lemon garlic kale. You have a choice of 3-4 fill ins depending on what your order is……… pita, bowl, salad, or plate.

The next section are the salads. They usually are tabbouleh, a lentil salad or a kale salad.

You know there is hummus among us so now so you get to pick from the days selection of several. They usually offer plain hummus, beet hummus, cilantro hummus, spicy roasted red pepper hummus and sometimes delicious lemon ginger hummus.

They offer many vegetable toppings like pickles, feta cheese, fresh garbanzos, pickled beets and more including sauces like tzatziki to top that all with but I like the fresh herb schug that’s very herby and spicy.

Here’s what I got last time. You can’t see it but I got the Aleppo beef with falafels as my proteins and I also got a fresh made wheat pita.

The cooked to order falafels made with fresh herbs. A better falafel is made with fresh herbs.

It’s a lot of food but it’s healthy food that’s mostly vegetables.  Hummus Xpress serves up tasty food and is something different that you can’t get anywhere else. It’s not a place that you would travel across town for because there isn’t a public bathroom. It’s place you that you stop into when your in the area.

Meaning Good Value. if you are in the neighborhood kind of place.

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