Chicago restaurant The Nile of Hyde Park offers a full menu of delicious Middle Eastern food, from traditional Middle Eastern staples like hummos, falafel, and shawarma, to more unique dishes like our Makloubas, we offer a wide range of delectable options to satisfy your taste buds.
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Sunday Brunch Menu
Served Sunday's 11am-3pm
Shakshuka
A traditional North African dish, ours consists of a chunky tomato sauce including onion, bell pepper, a little hot pepper, and garlic. Three eggs are poached in the sauce
and the whole thing is served sizzling in a cast iron skillet.
Want your eggs well done? Just give us a heads up.
Served with pita bread $11.50
Eggs Benedict with a Middle Eastern Twist
Our Benedict starts with a piece of my grandmother’s home-style pita. Then we add the protein, a poached egg,
and top it off with a nice, rich, lemony hollandaise sauce with zataar (an Arabic spice mix consisting of thyme, sesame, and sumac). Served with a potato hash consisting of potato, onion, tomato, bell pepper and cheese.
Substitute a house salad in place of the potato hash add $1.00
with beef tenderloin $16.00 with salmon croquette $14.00
Parsley and onion omelet
When I looked up the origins of this omelet I found Armenian, Turkish, Portuguese, and Palestinian versions.
I know it as what my father would make us when he was in a hurry. It’s always been a family staple and one of my favorites! Sauteed onion and parsley, 3 eggs, and to kick it up a notch we’ve folded in a salted Arabic white cheese.
Served with a potato hash consisting of potato, onion, tomato, bell pepper and cheese.
Substitute a house salad in place of the potato hash add $1.00
$10.00
Mediterranean Omelet
A 3 egg omelet stuffed with a sauce consisting of tomato, onion, bell peppers, garlic, and cilantro.
We toss in a little cheddar cheese, because everything is better with cheese, and then finish it with a little extra sauce on top. Served with a potato hash consisting of potato, onion, tomato, bell pepper and cheese.
Substitute a house salad in place of the potato hash add $1.00
$10.00
Steak & Egg ScRamble
Sauteed onion, juicy pieces of beef tenderloin, and roasted potato scrambled together with 3 eggs. Served with a potato hash consisting of potato, onion, tomato, bell pepper and cheese. Substitute a house salad in place of the potato hash add $1.00
$14.50
Katayiff
A cross between a pancake and a crepe. We serve 3 of these fluffy semolina cakes, stuffed with a sweet white cheese. Drizzled with a simple syrup and garnished with some powdered sugar and fresh fruit.
$9.50
Fattoush Salad
Larger dinner salad: cucumber, tomato, onion, olives, pickles, radish, romaine lettuce, lemon & olive oil vinaigrette, topped with pita croutons.
$8.00
Add: Chicken Taouk $12.00
SANDWICHES
Arayis 6.00
Pita stuffed with ground beef/lamb, onions, tomato, charbroiled
Falafel 7.00
ChickenShawerma 8.00
Beef/LambShawerma 9.00
ShishKabab 10.00
ShishTaouk 7.00
KiftaKabab 7.00
Wrap sandwiches
Thin pita bread, rolled & stuffed with chicken shawerma, or beef & lamb shawerma, onions, tomato & tahini sauce
ChickenShawerma 7.00
Beef/LambShawerma 8.00
A LA CARTE OPTIONS
1. 2 eggs (hard boiled, scrambled, fried, or poached) $4.00 2. Potato Hash $3.50
3. Olives $2.50
4. Lebnae $3.50
5. Salted White Cheese $3.50
6. Hummos Small $5.00 Large $9.00
7. Baba Ghanooj Small $5.00 Large $9.00
8. Falafel 4 pieces $4.00 6 pieces $5.00 12 pieces $8.00
BEVERAGES
Coke $2.50
Diet Coke $2.50
Sprite $2.50
Fanta Orange $2.50 Lemonade $2.50 Unsweetened Iced Tea $2.50 Mr. Pib $2.50
The Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Fanta Orange, Lemonade, Iced Tea & Mr. Pib
Carrot Juice $4.00
Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice $4.00 Grapefruit Juice $4.00
Middle Eastern Coffee $1.50
American Coffee (regular, decaf) $2.00 Hot Tea $2.00
Small Carafe of Juice $5.00
(Orange, Grapefruit, Watermelon)