Alzohour Market Bakery Restaurant Phoenix AZ – Worth a Fork! Exotic Aromatic Forking Delicious Food!

There’s no need to hop the Marrakech since we have Alzohour Market Bakery Restaurant in Phoenix Arizona. It’s a Moroccan/Middle Eastern Restaurant-Bakery and MORE! Here you can find Halal meats, some home and kitchen goods, some Indo Euro Moroccan and Middle Eastern Grocery, Islamic clothing and books. The location is in North Phoenix but is close to central Phoenix and is on the south/east corner of 27th and Northern.

It’s important to know that good things come to those who wait.

When you order an eggplant dish the eggplant doesn’t get cooked till you order it. The owner Zhor does the majority of all the work herself. Get it? OK.

Remember that the food is unusually delicious so it is worth the wait.

It looks like this when you walk in.

To one side is the Islamic Clothing Store.

To the other side is the food market.

Today I thought I’d try something I’ve never heard of or tried before the kashkbademjam ($7.)

It was hot roasted eggplant with some herbs, garlic, mint and onions served with flatbreads. I never had eggplant this meaty before. You eat it just like fajitas and it even comes on a sizzling skillet. The eggplant is so meaty…never had eggplant like this before.

Ummm

Also having the best tea I’ve ever tasted anywhere.

I was too slow to show you how it was served to me. The tea was poured from two pots at the same time from up high real fast. I was caught off guard. But seriously this tea is Forking Delicious.

Next we were served salads but I forgot to photo them….they were slightly fancier than these salads we had here before. They had more vegetables but didn’t have cheese on them.

For my main today I tried the couscous with chicken ($15.).

I got a generous amount of chicken on the bone with carrots, winter squash and some slightly spicy peppers and exotic flavors, cooked chicken flavors and an enormous amount of couscous. The chicken is moist and tender. It is developed with flavors. The couscous in the middle of the plate is full of more flavors…..maybe from chicken braising liquid?….. It’s very delicious.

My husband tried the kebssa with chicken ($15.)

If you are like me than you never heard of this dish before either. It’s lemon topped chicken with mint, onion, tomato, tzatziki (made from her home made yogurt) It smells very fragrant and is delicious. We were told it’s made with about ten different spices but weren’t told what they were. I looked up the recipe for this dish and everyone does make it different but most people use black pepper, cloves, cardamon, saffron, cinnamon, black lime, bayleaves and nutmeg in this Saudi Dish called kebssa and also spelled kabsah.

I had plenty to bring home and couldn’t pack in her delicious desserts today.

Below are dishes we tried from previous visits.

B’stilla – Chicken in house made phyllo dough with cinnamon and almonds ($20.) I note that this is very large and it’s also rich. I think it might be at least 4 servings.