Shako Maako Oriental Street Food

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Our daily filled bread

Photo: Heribert Corn It's actually no longer very easy to stand out with a snack bar in Vienna. After all, there are already hundreds, and filled bread doesn't seem to have that many variations. Or maybe there are: O.S.B., Oriental Sandwich Bar, for example, opened in a tiny niche on Billrothstraße in the fall of 2014 and impressed with its fabulously delicious filled pitas. They were so good because Mrs. Salwa Ghobrial made everything herself, every sauce, every falafel, even the bread. Soon after opening, son Mina Yaney announced that the sandwich bar would be moving to Rotenturmstraße, which has now finally happened almost three years later. The principle of the small restaurant with the large display case has been retained, but is now much nicer than in the 19th district - oriental tiles on the wall, the display case made of milled mahogany and, above all, a sparkling golden ventilation system with a transparent mechanism and engraved oriental patterns. Satchmo, Mina and his brother Bischoy prepare seven different dishes that you can either have on a plate or in a crispy baked flatbread. Grilled chicken bits, for example, fried pieces of chicken fillet with lettuce, peppers, tomato, onion and a sauce of your choice - sesame, yoghurt mint, hummus or garlic - take a while to prepare but are very good (€ 8.90). And what is called "crushed lamb beef" is a kind of cevapcici, minced in-house and perhaps that's why it's so incredibly fluffy (€ 9.20).
On the other side of the city center, on Albertina-Platz, Josef Weghaupt opened his fourth Joseph bakery last week and now offers the bagel that a few in Vienna have already cut their teeth on: Smørres Feinbäckerei, Bagel Station and Shulz are history, The Roast now serves Thai food, the former bagel competence center POS is a "distant memory" and Frank's ceased production after zero public response.
Joseph still tries the bagel anyway, in three different dough versions (sourdough, wild rye, malt grain), first cooked according to the original recipe, then baked and freshly filled. And they are really great, probably the best bagels ever in Vienna. The version with cream cheese, home-pickled salmon, capers, oxheart tomato and onion is particularly good (€ 10.40), while the one with Thum ham unfortunately suffers a little from the completely dominant creamed gherkins (€ 8.60). Of course, you can get a real meal and a drink for the same price at Reinthaler around the corner. But if you want good, stuffed bread, there are two more places to go. Summary: one with a fantastic oriental pita filling, the other with a very original New York-style bagel. Eating well on the go is getting easier and easier. O.S.B 1st, Rotenturmstr. 27 Tel. 01/399 68 89 daily 11am-24pm Joseph Bagelmanufaktur 1st, Führichg. 6 Mon-Fri 8am-7pm, Sat 8.30am-5pm

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