Living in Brooklyn and working in Manhattan, Queens seems like a strange and distant land to me. With the exception of the occasional foray into Flushing to satisfy my cravings for Chinese and Korean food, I regretfully admit I've unfairly neglected this borough. But with Ali El Sayed's Kebab Café, it was always a matter of when, and not if, I would go. Serving his take on northern Egyptian food, Alexandrian to be exact, Ali has been a fixture on Steinway Street since 1989. Leave it to my good friend ESC, who happens to live just down the street, to finally drag my sorry ass up to Astoria and finally visit this legendary restaurant.
