The other was a shop further down the street that I decided to visit when the queue at L'As was typically very long and I had been wondering around trying to fulfill a falafel craving for about 40 minutes. It's not the easiest road to find when you have forgotten the name and have only been to Marais once. But I did orient myself eventually without much help of the map and can say I now know Marais a lot better. Anyway, the other place was called Chez Hanna, and it was very nearly as good. It just had a little too much tahini sauce and there was less aubergine - plonked on top instead of stuffed in. It was very melty aubergine nonetheless and that's how it should be. Indeed there was very little in it between the two places and I would happily eat at either of them again, or recommend them to others, because you get the whole of this for 5€ (7.50€ if you eat in).
So here are falafels, roast aubergine, two types of salad (one of them beetroot) and lots of tahini sauce. And really nice warm pitta. Mmm. It makes a good meal in itself, no need for anything else.
I got drawn into this because of the funny name but also because there were rows of pastries I had never heard of. There was a type of cheesecake, lots of savory pasty type things, very chocolately sachertorte and two types of strudel: Romanian and Austrian. And many more that I've forgotten. I was served a piece by a rather brusque Polish lady and then given a handwritten ticket to take to a man at a desk and till at the back. There were lots of other things I would have like to try but my strudel cost me three euros a piece so I decided to limit myself. The place was equally full of bread and other deli items sold ready-cooked in trays. I went for the traditional strudel, tasty but lacked the conventional filo type pastry, but I would still go back here and try many other things. I approve of roads like this that somehow pack in more food shops than their size would give away.
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