1St Saturday of every month for sure .. and additional Friday & Saturday evenings when the dancers are available - we email our patrons.
As well, we have the dancers on special occasions such new year's eve, valentine, group parties or meetings .. etc ..
Belly dance dinner entertainment
Reservation recommended.
The best belly dancers in town are here at Friends. These young ladies not only are great dancers with experience, looks and talent .. they are also fun because they really enjoy it, and it shows. They create a spirit of genuine enjoyment and a casual fun environment.
They are committed to the first Saturday of each month for sure. They also perform on special occasions such as Valentine's, New year's eve and similar evenings as well as reserved group meetings or parties .. and, they also pay us extra monthly visits on Friday & Saturday evenings whenever they have the time (they lead professional careers, dancing is a recreation and a hobby for them).
On belly dance nights we offer a specific menu, a set of specials
for one low flat price. We offer a gourmet 2+ course dinner, the
kind of dinner you deserve when wish to treat yourself, and we all
deserve that once in a while .. and, it's the kind of dinner you can only
get at a 5-star hotel lounge such as Sheraton New York or Hilton
Paris .. I ate there, I know the chefs and I know what they charge ..
Simply you won't get better food there, just less food .. for 4 times the
money .. true! of course you pay for the image .. anyway, back to our
subject ... here is the belly dance nights menu:
We often offer 14 dinner choices .. that's more than most restaurants' entire lunch and dinners' full menu .. and, while even here in our town a good steak dinner ranges between $26 to $37 at 4 restaurants that I know of.. ( and it's one plate with a small serving of cheap frozen carrots, peas and/or corn) .. at Friends; you'll get a great two course gourmet dinner for $15 - $18 .. served with a good variety of fresh and expensive imported veggies that are not served in most restaurants for the cost factor .. you'll get about 5 or more veggies .. often 6 to 8 .. any available combination of:
okra, imported long beans, purple, yellow & white cauliflower, purple carrort, Mexican asparagus, African white asparagus, snap peas, sweet peas, red okra, broccoli, imported yellow & purble beans & broccoli, spinach, molukhyia, Egyptian kale, African fasoulia, zucchini and more (of course a selection of, not all of the preceding list). It's a full 2 course dinner:
Hope to see you on the belly dance night. Please try to
reserve if possible. As you know because we're a
destination restaurant (as opposed to a foot-traffic place
where an average foot traffic can be estimated) it is very unpredictable around here.
We usually plan two dinners, an early 5.30 pm seating and a later 7.30 pm dinner. Please call for reservation, especially if you wanted to order outside the 12 entrees
menu above.
716-0012 The restaurant ..
or even feel free to call Paul's cell before or after business hours at 619-7701 .. as you know, it's a family and simple spirit at Friends.
Thank you for being a Friends patron.
We promise fresh, clean and healthy food.
First courseconsists of Friends baked cream mashed potatoes, finished on the grill with onions, cream, garlic and Paul's sauce .. along with a variety of grilled veggies treated with several herbs, liqueurs and spices. Last dance we offereed asparagus, zucchini, white asparagus, green beans, sweet peas, spinach, okra, arnabeet, long green beans and potatoes. This likely the plan for next dance.
The second course presents Egyptian rice, more veggies and the meat; chicken, pork, lamb or beef; grilled or curried.
1- Gourmet chicken finished in Friends sauce with honey, wine, coffee, herbs & spices, onions and more.
As the menu reads, you simple can't get a
better piece if chicken, unless you're a rooster.
2- Curried chicken .. and we make our own curry, a unique curry,
nothing like common East Indian curry.
3- Pork Africano steak .. and again, as the menu reads; cooked in
the way they do it in African jungle, where men
are men, and pigs are nervous!
4- Curried pork
5- Egyptian beef steak, a cross between the European prime rib &
traditional North Americxan steak
6- Curried beef
7- Lamb .. you haven't tried lamb until you taste Friends'.
8- Curried lamb ..
9- Falafil with hummus, a side order veggies, rice &
potatioes and fruits .. a family vegetarian recipe tickeld by Friends.
All dinners, 2 course - 2 platters, are in the $15ish range
For an additional $10 we'll upgrade your meat to your
choice of:
10- Wild boar
11- buffalo
12- Frog legs
Appetizers:
1- Hummus & pita
2- Pickled lemon - lime
3- Baba ghanoug
(please view the menu for detailed
descriptions of any entree')
Desserts:
1- Home-made mango & pine apple iced cream
2- Apple, pine apple & berries pie with mango paste
1- Exotic tea & coffees such as Egyptian or Turkish coffee or tea .. etc.
2- Pop
3- fresh fruit juice
4- beer, wine and liqueurs.
Patrons often get up, dance around the belly dancer for a minute and tip her by tucking, say $5 (or a higher bill) into her costume. Since I didn't feel I should use a patron's picture without permission, nor I felt I should ask for a patron's permission to use his/her photo, I entered a couple of pictures of myself stealing a moment of fun away from the kitchen while two of our 5 dancers were demonstrating a new dance.
Two course gourmet chicken, beef, pork or lamb full dinner; $15.85
