Market Gives Maryland a Taste of the Middle East

Sam's Café and Market, located in Rockville, Maryland, offers some of the best dried fruits, imported foods, and meals from Middle Eastern countries and was recently featured by the Washington Post as one of the area's top locations to visit.

Rockville, Md. (PRWEB) June 22, 2008 -- Sam's Café and Market, a small market right off the Pike in Rockville, Maryland, is known throughout the area for its display of dried fruits and variety of imported foods from Middle Eastern countries, was recently featured in the Washington Post's City Guide as one of the "Best (markets and cafes) of its kind in the Washington area."

Sam Motaghi opened his market and café nearly ten years ago, and his market boasts hard to find items such as golpar, jalapeño sauce, saffron, tabbouleh, and hummus. The café, which seats 42 people, offers daily lunch and dinner buffets of Iranian dishes along with an a la carte menu that features items such as chicken kebab marinated in yogurt, lemon and saffron and samosas − deep fried pockets made out of corn-wheat flour dough then stuffed with ground beef and potato - which are a specialty in Iran's southwestern province of Khuzestan.

To read the article on Sam's Café and Market, go to www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?node=cityguide/profile&id=1026466.

About Sam's Café and Market:

Sam's Café and Market is a small but well-stocked market with its beautiful display of dried fruits and imported foods from Middle Eastern countries. Arguably, it is the best of its kind in the Washington area. Of equal note are the daily lunch and dinner buffets of Iranian dishes that Motaghi's cook, Tabriz native Shanaz Tabrizi, puts together in the adjoining 42-seat cafe, where there is also an a la carte menu featuring a variety of Iranian specialties.

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