Fava Pot Menu
Introducing Fava Pot, a Mediterranean-Halal restaurant located in Falls Church, VA. This women-owned establishment offers a cozy atmosphere with a focus on rich, flavorful Egyptian cuisine. Customers praise the friendly service and diverse menu options catering to dietary preferences like vegan and gluten-free. Highlights include hearty dishes like the mixed grill platter, koshary, and falafel made from fava beans. The chef's appetizer platter and grilled chicken platter also receive high praise for their taste and generous portion sizes. Customers appreciate the reasonable prices and the option to enjoy happy hour specials. With a range of amenities like outdoor seating, delivery, and catering services, Fava Pot is a must-visit for those craving authentic Mediterranean flavors in a welcoming environment.
Breakfast
Fetter Meshaltet
Flaky Egyptian layered pastry consisting of many thin layers of dough and ghee, to dip in our homemade carmalized carrots, and organic honey atop a bed of Keshta!
Scrambled Eggs With Fava Beans
Vegetarian, gluten-free. three organic eggs scrambled in ghee with fava beans. A traditional Egyptian breakfast! Served with bread.
Scrambled Eggs With Basterma
Gluten-free. three organic eggs scrambled in ghee with basterma, a spiced cured beef. Served with bread.
Scrambled Eggs With Dates
three organic eggs scrambled in ghee with sweet medjool dates. Served with bread.
Fava Pot’s Famous Goat Cheese Omelet
Vegetarian, gluten-free. Two organic eggs cooked in ghee with goat cheese; topped with pesto. Served with bread.
Egyptian Style Breakfast Sandwich
Egyptian style feta cheese, seasoned with cumin, lime juice, olive oil, and jalapeños, inside of a warm Egyptian pita with delicious free range organic eggs and cured basterma
Premium Chef's Breakfast
Served with bread. Your choice of eggs (ask about our options) served with fava beans, three falafel & tahini, and spicy feta cheese along with feteer meshaltet and our homemade caramelized carrots .
Lamb & Beef Omelet
Gluten-free. Two organic eggs cooked in ghee with ground beef & lamb Served with bread (Optional, contains gluten)
Chef’s Appetizer Platter
Your choice of three starter dishes. A customer favorite!
Zaatar With Olive Oil & Pita Bread
Vegan. Warm bread served with a dip of zaatar spice blend and extra virgin olive oil.
Pickled Eggplant With Garlic
Vegan, gluten-free. White eggplant pickled with garlic, jalapeño, lime, and vinegar.
Fava Beans
Vegan, gluten-free. Slow-cooked fava beans topped with olive oil, tahini, lime, and spices served with bread.
Baba Ghanoush
Vegan, gluten-free. Tahini and charred eggplant spread flavored with olive oil, garlic, pomegranate molasses, bell peppers, lime, and spices served with bread.
Hummus
Vegan, gluten-free. Chickpea-tahini spread flavored with olive oil, garlic, lime, and spices served with bread.
Spicy Feta Cheese
Vegetarian, gluten-free. Creamy feta cheese spread spiced with jalapeños, lime, garlic, and olive oil served with bread.
Tzatziki
Vegetarian, gluten-free. Yogurt with cucumbers, mint, garlic, olive oil, lime, and spices served with bread.
Macaroni Béchamel
The ultimate egyptian comfort food; pasta baked with a housemade creamy béchamel sauce and stuffed with ground beef.
Koshary
Vegan. A hearty dish starring lentils, rice, pasta, and a rich tomato sauce; topped with chickpeas and sweet caramelized onions.
Stuffed Grape Leaves
Gluten-free. Traditionally-made grape leaves stuffed with a mixture of rice, ground beef, onions, and spices; cooked in broth.
Gollash
Egyptian-style beef pie made with buttery layers of flaky phyllo dough and stuffed with ground beef, onions, and spices.
Egyptian-Style Liver
Gluten-free. Veal liver flavored with garlic, pomegranate molasses, jalapeños, lime and spices; pan-seared in ghee served with bread.
Egyptian Rice With Vermicelli
Vegetarian. Short-grain Egyptian rice cooked with toasted vermicelli noodles and ghee.
Hawawshi
Spicy seasoned ground beef and ground lamb baked in Egyptian pita bread.
Egyptian Style Feta Pie
Vegetarian. Seasoned feta cheese mixed with extra version olive oil, fresh baked, and topped with zaatar.
Roasted Potatoes
Vegan, gluten-free. Roasted red potatoes marinated in olive oil, zaatar spice blend, rosemary, garlic, and lime.
Chicken & Goat Cheese Pie
Chicken, goat cheese, freshly made dough with olive oil, topped with fresh house-made pesto
Four Falafel And Tahini Sauce
Vegan, Gluten-free. Three fava bean patties fried in sunflower oil and served with tahini sauce
Starters & Sides
Soups & Salads
Mediterranean Salad
Vegetarian, gluten-free. Organic mixed greens, cucumbers, tomatoes, radishes, scallions, and feta cheese, with a dressing of olive oil, lime, and sumac.
Red Lentil Soup
Vegan, gluten-free. Red lentils stewed with carrots, onions, celery, potatoes, cilantro, garlic, and spices.
Homemade Chicken Soup With Vegetables
A warming classic soup with chicken, potatoes, green beans,, carrots, celery, garlic, and spices.
Soup Of Squab With Freekeh
A most delicious soup made with squab (similar to quail) and freekeh (a smoky cracked green wheat).
Molokheya Dip
Served with bread.
Egyptian Lamb Shank
Egyptian style lamb shank served with roasted potatoes and a organic spring mix salad
Stewed Veal Kabab
Cubed veal stewed with potatoes, onions, garlic, and spices; served atop Egyptian rice with vermicelli.
Breaded Veal Escalope With Macaroni Béchamel
Grass-fed veal cutlets breaded and pan fried in sunflower oil, served with pasta bake made with a creamy béchamel sauce and stuffed with ground beef and tomato sauce.
Lamb Chops With Stuffed Grape Leaves
Gluten-free. Lamb chops cooked with traditionally-made grape leaves that are stuffed with a mixture of Egyptian rice, ground beef, onions, and spices; served with tzatziki sauce.
Molokheya With Chicken
Egyptian famous dish served with Egyptian rice and chicken fried in ghee.
Susu's Chicken Kofta
Shredded chicken, béchamel, organic milk and eggs, ghee, white onion, and spices. Breaded & fried in canola oil, served with macaroni bèchamel, tzatziki and fresh tomato sauce
Eat Like An Egyptian: Chef’s Choice
Feeds two people. no substitutions — fava beans, koshary, baba ganoush, hummus, falafel, pickled eggplant, grape leaves, Egyptian fried chicken, kofta, lamb chop, Egyptian style liver, Egyptian rice, artichoke, molokheya, loaves of Egyptian bread.
Dawud Pasha
Served with bread, Egyptian style meatballs made of grass fed lamb and beef, cooked in a freshly made tomato sauce, and served over vermicelli rice, topped with dried mint. served with a side of roasted potatoes
Oven Roasted Stuffed Artichokes
Four beef-stuffed artichokes are topped with pine nuts and our freshly made tomato sauce. Served with Egyptian rice and our whole-wheat aish baladi Egyptian bread (made piping hot from our stone oven).
Egyptian Style Roasted Salmon
oz of wild-caught salmon marinated in lime, garlic, olive oil and zaatar, served with our signature roasted potatoes and organic spring mix
Egyptian Fried Chicken
Egyptian style half-chicken, fried in ghee served roasted potatoes, and orgaince spring mix
Signature Dishes
Bowls
Koshary Bowl
Vegan. A hearty dish starring lentils, Egyptian rice, pasta, and a rich spicy tomato sauce and topped with chickpeas and sweet caramelized onions.
Lamb Fattah
Braised lamb shank atop short-grain Egyptian rice and crispy pita bread, soaked in a fresh tomato sauce with garlic and vinegar.
Tagen Okra & Lamb
Lamb shanks cooked with garlic and tomatoes then roasted with okra in the oven. Served with Egyptian rice and our whole-wheat aish baladi Egyptian bread (made piping hot from our stone oven).
Falafel Platter
Vegan. Fava bean falafel patties served with a tahini sauce.
Grilled Chicken Platter
Grilled half cornish hen marinated in yogurt, olive oil, sumac, and garlic; served with with a garlic sauce.
Mixed Grill Platter
All of our popular grilled meats on one plate; two French-cut lamb chops, three pieces of chicken kabobs, and two pieces of kofta.
Chicken Kabab Platter
Grilled chicken skewers marinated in yogurt, olive oil, sumac, and garlic, served with garlic sauce.
Kofta Platter
Grilled ground beef and lamb patties seasoned with parsley, sumac, and spices, served with tahini sauce.
Platters
Desserts
Egyptian Cookies
Vegetarian. mini cookies made with flour, ghee, and cane sugar.
Om Ali Pudding
Vegetarian. A traditional Egyptian bread pudding made with milk, cream, puff pastry, raisins, pistachio, and coconut; sweetened with cane sugar.
Rice Pudding
Organic milk, rice, Eshta, sugar topped with pistachio and raisin .
Kunafa With Nutella
Vegetarian. Pastry made of buttery shredded wheat, stuffed with nutella, and covered in syrup.
Kunafa With Sweet Cheese
Vegetarian. Pastry made of buttery shredded wheat, stuffed with a sweet white cheese and covered in a honey syrup.
San Pelligerino
Kamar El Dein
Apricot Juice
Iced Mint Limeade
Fresh-squeezed limeaid with mint; sweetened with cane sugar.
Iced Hibiscus Tea
Egyptian Guava Juice
Egyptian Mango Juice
Cold Beverages
Hot Beverages
Espresso
Latte
Two shots of espresso. Your choice of organic milk or coconut milk.
Egyptian Coffee
Finely ground coffee boiled with cardamom and cane sugar.
Cappuccino
Your choice of organic milk or coconut milk.
Americano
Black Tea With Mint
Hot Hibiscus Tea
Kids Chicken With Zaatar
Chicken with zaatar and lime, pan-fried with olive oil; served over Egyptian rice with vermicelli
Kids Scrambled Eggs
Two organic eggs scrambled in ghee
Kids Macaroni Bechamel
The ultimate Egyptian comfort food; pasta baked with a house-made creamy béchamel sauce and stuffed with ground beef
Kids Chicken Kabob
Grilled chicken skewers marinated in yogurt, sumac, and garlic; served over Egyptian rice with vermicelli
Kids Menu
EXTRAS
Egyptian Bread
Tomaya
Homemade Garlic Whip
Harissa
Homemade Spicy Harissa
Tahini
Homemade Sesame Paste
