Sultan's Market | Gluten-free in Chicago

brian c
06/10/2022

2

I despair. I’ve been a neighbor of this institution for decades but it has just become intolerable. First they ditched their wonderful Jerusalem salad. Then the sandwiches were made upside down, they stuff the cucumber, tomato and onion, with a ladle of tahini in the bottom of the pita, then top it with dehydrated shawarma or felafel, so you have a swampbottomed sandwich to grease your palms after you’ve chewed through the spectacularly dry meat or felafel. I still try to support them, but it’s getting tough. I loved them for maintaining a salad bar through the Global Pandemic, but I am horrified by the stuffed grape leaves they try to sell now, with repellent globs of congealed oil clinging to them. Were they frozen and thawed? They look disgusting. Just wholesale buy them fresh for heaven’s sake. Why does everything great eventually go to hell?

mary h
20/06/2022

5

Excellent food, as always, with scrumptiousgluten free options. The gluten free chicken and lamb shwarma dinners are both quite tasty. They give a choice of rice, so I tried both rice mixtures, and the dinner was enough for two meals. Their hummus is the best I've had, as is their lentil soup. The salad bar offers so many authentic foods to sample, also. Ooh, don't forget the sauce: the red, spicy sauce and the white sauce. They compliment the food nicely! In the warmer weather, the location on North Ave also has an outdoor patio. This is a great, low stress, easy on the budget option for lunch or dinner...or both!