Shams Al Yemen - Best Yemeni Restaurant in Albany, NY

Fresh lettuce, Tomatoes & homemade dressing

It made with olives, lemon juice, cucumber, tomato, red onion, fried bread, lettuce, pomegranate sauce, and salt

Pure chickpeas, sesame batter, olive oil, served with one bread

known as Maraq, is a delicate, aromatic, and deeply flavorful meat broth.

Fresh cucumber yogurt mix

It mixed with garlic, cumin, salt, tomatoes, cilantro

Assorted mixed vegetable stew sauteed

A general term for a vegetable (eggplant, potatoes, and tomatoes, zucchini, seasoned with hawaij.

It a type of jute plant with edible leaves used to make a popular savory green soup or stew in the Middle East and North Africa

Sauteed onions, tomatoes, and mashed fava beans, served with bread

Dry beans, sauteed with onions, tomatoes, and served with bread.

Baked beans, sauteed with onions, tomatoes, and served with bread.

Dry or baked beans, sauteed with onions, tomatoes, and served with bread.

Eggs, sauteed with tomatoes, onions, and spices, served with bread

Minced lamb sauteed with onions, tomatoes, and Yemeni spices, served with bread

Sauteed cubed lamb liver with onions and tomatoes - served with our clay oven bread

Traditional Saltah combined with chopped tuna or fish of the day served bubbling hot in a clay bowl with a warm clay oven bread.

Fish grilled on charcoal flames to perfection, served over a bed of long-grain basmati rice & topped with vegetable sauce.

Slow oven roasted two pieces of salmon fish in imported Yemeni seasoning served over a bed of long grain basmati rice & topped with a vegetable sauce

Yemeni style sliced bread with lamb soup

Freshly prepared kebab wrapped or in sandwich option

Savory meat filling inside bread

Classic burger patty with cheese

Traditional Saltah combined with shredded lamb & served bubbling hot in a clay bowl with warm clay oven bread

A very tender chunk of lamb saute then boiled in a seasoned mirepoix for hours. Served with mixed vegetables and rice

Mix grilled 1skewer chicken kebab, 1 skewer of lamb kebab, 2 lamb chops, and one skewer kofta, served with vegetables and rice

Ground lamb mixed with herbs, aromatics, and spices. Served with rice or bread

2 skewers of small chunks of meat, onions, grilled, served with vegetables and rice.

5 pieces of grilled baby lamb chops, seasoned to perfection, served with vegetables over rice

Grilled baby lamb chops served without rice

Our most popular dish, slow-roasted lamb seasoned to perfection. Served with mixed vegetables and rice.

A Yemeni style stew. Cooked with large chunks of lamb, okra, carrots, potatoes, onion & green peas served with warm clay oven bread or rice

Slow oven roasted half chicken in imported Yemeni seasoning served over a bed of long grain basmati rice & topped with a vegetable sauce.

Cooked massloug chicken with vegetables in the Yemeni style, served with a bread or rice

2 sticks of chicken and onions grilled served with vegetables over rice.

Fresh assorted root vegetable stew served in a bubbling hot clay bowl topped with tangy whipped fenugreek. Served with half chicken Haneeth Masloug, warm clay oven bread and a side of sahawix (spicy chutney)

Half chicken grilled on charcoal flames to perfection, served over a bed of long-grain basmati rice & topped with vegetable sauce.

Fresh assorted root vegetable stew served in a bubbling hot clay bowl topped with tangy whipped fenugreek. Served with a warm clay oven bread & a side of sahawig (spicy chutney)

Special traditional Yemeni black tea

Special Yemeni hot tea with milk

Coca-Cola, Sunkist, Pepsi... etc.

Soda served in glass bottles

Bottled water

Freshly squeezed lemon juice

Fresh strawberry juice link

Fresh delicious mango juice

Traditional sweet cake semolina based

Sweet pastry made of layers of filo text with nuts

Yemeni style sliced bread with honey and butter

Freshly baked plain tannour bread

Yemeni flat layered traditional bread

1 lamb haneeth, half chicken haneeth, 1 fahsah served with rice and breads

one lamb haneeth, one Massloug Lamb (Bormah), whole chicken haneeth, one fahsah, and one saltah served with rice and breads

Slow oven roasted quarter chicken in imported Yemeni seasoning, served over a bed of long grain basmati rice & topped with a vegetable sauce.