ARABIC CAFE AND DELI “ABU ESSAM” in Tokyo

It is a very rare Arabic style café where anyone can enjoy Arab light meals. They have kebab sandwiches, falafel sandwiches etc. They use very simple seasonings in their dishes like salt, pepper, herbs, natural spices and some lemon. Everything at this café is Halal. It is a casual café where anyone can enjoy food at reasonable/cheap prices. Chef Ibrahim is the one who cooks the best food at this café and his motto is “good food with good prices”.
This café is about 5 minutes from Kagurazaka station. Very near and easy to access. It is also near Tokyo dome city. Just a few stations away. The café is owned by a Muslim and some of their workers are also Muslim.

The café has a comfortable atmosphere with nice Arabic music, the staff is very kind and friendly. They do have English speaking staff also and yes can speak Arabic too. They also sell some small pieces of Arabic desserts BAKLAVA and basbousa. Baklava is a layered pastry dessert made of pastry filled with chopped almonds, walnuts, coconut on top and sweetened with honey /sugar syrup. Basbousa is made of semolina batter and sweetened lemon flavoured honey/sugar syrup. Apart from these, they do sell some brownies, hummus, baba ganoush etc.

I ordered falafel, carrot cake and some baklavas. The falafel tasted very authentic and the baklava was just on another level. Carrot cake was good too but I will say it needs to get better. I probably won't eat carrot cake again but of course I will love to try their other dishes next time. Both dishes were very exotic and had nice flavour. They are very reasonable.
I really recommend this café to enjoy eating Arabic light meals which are super delicious and are definitely made with passion and devotion.

Address: 162-0805 Shinjuku city, Yaraicho, 111-1 JP 1620805 Ys Kagurazaka 101
Contact: 0359468014
Website: www.abu-essam.com