Skip to content, or skip to search.
Skip to content, or skip to search.
Home > Restaurants >
- PROFILE
- READER REVIEWS
Mombar
|
|
Critics' Pick
Hours
Tue-Sun, 5pm-11pm; Mon, closed
Nearby Subway Stops
N, W at Astoria Blvd.
Prices
$7-$25
Payment Methods
Cash Only
Special Features
- BYOB
- Take-Out
Alcohol
- BYOB
- Beer and Wine Only
Reservations
Recommended
Profile
An artist at heart, chef Moustafa El Sayed designed and built this sort of Alice-in-Arabian-Wonderland dedicated to Egyptian clay-pot cookery, where teacups protrude from walls, and tabletops double as canvases. And El Sayed is as creative with food as he is with paint and tile. Try the meze plate, or the egga, a sort of Egyptian frittata, and then move on to El Sayed’s raison d’être, the all-encompassing clay pot, which might be filled with stewed rabbit, lamb tajine, or chicken and olives.
Recommended DishesSahara mix, $7; glazed duck with Egyptian molasses, $18; Egyptian style steak, $25
Related Stories
Featured In
- The Dream Nile (6/12/00)
| 7.1 | "Recommended" Average Reader Rating on a Scale of 10 |
 |
Horrible
varickwt from 11233 | Posted on 4/5/09
| Food: | 2 |
| Service: | 1 |
| Décor: | 1 |
| Value: | 1 |
The El Sayeds own both Mombar and the Kebab Cafe. While I never encountered rudeness here I did next door. Both places are in horrible condition and the food is extremely overpriced. His whole family was there for dinner and it seemed as though they received better service than the paying "guests". I could taste the "stewed" game was frozen for a long period of time and not freshly butchered. What should have been a $60 bill came out to be over $100 dollars. I would NOT recommend this place to anyone and even less his brothers place next door because he was the rudest person I ever met. My advice to him is go back to Egypt where you can get away with your bad attitude with customers. I travel extensively so I know what I am talking about. This is an attitude you can find especially in Africa and the Middle East -arrogance and ignorance about how to handle customers. They make up the rules and the prices as they go along...be wary. My egyptian friend told me to go to "Casa La Femme" which while it is not inexpensive it is worth it...
No Water?
GreekBrazilian from 11105 | Posted on 11/15/08
| Food: | 5 |
| Service: | 3 |
| Décor: | 9 |
| Value: | 3 |
Shock #1: We can only have bottled water and it costs $2.00 for the smallest Poland Spring plastic water bottle - unacceptable. Shock #2: Prices way too high, portions way too small for US standards. Shock #3: Annoying and aggressive customer service. Shock #4: Delicious baklava. The food is mediocre, really, very - very mediocre. 7:30 pm Saturday night - empty - we would have left but it was pooring rain out, and my partner insisted...I hate the feeling of being hungry after 4 of us spending $120.
Advertising
Latest News
Latest News Near
Popular Restaurant Guides
-
Where to Eat
Adam Platt picks 2009’s top dining destinations,
including Dovetail, Momofuku Ko, and Corton. -
Best of New York Food
The best that the city’s restaurants have to offer:
paella, coffee, grilled cheese, ramen, and more. -
The Cheap List
We live in a city full of small cheap-eats miracles,
including $1 foods, Korean fried chicken, and burgers.
Eight Year-End Films Vie for Oscar Contention
Sondheim and Lansbury on a Lifetime in Theater
The Black Keys Release Their Hip-hop Debut 
How the BQE Became an Artistic Muse
On Great Jones Street, Shopping Is Art 
Classic Fare, Old-world Charm at Le Caprice
Buy a Brownstone for Less Than $1 Million
Fifty of the City's Tastiest Soups
Reasons to Love New York 2009
New York Politicians Refuse to Quit
A-Rod Has Babe Ruth in His Sights
McCain Yields to the Party's Pressure
