food: best hommous in sydney...

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In Surry Hills there is a magical place called Erciyes that makes the most amazing orgasmic hommous. I had no idea hommous could be orgasmic until I had a taste of this restaurant's heavenly dip. It is like no other hommous I've ever had. I always thought hommous was nice, but nothing spectacular. But thanks to this restaurant, my entire tastebudding life changed. :-) I think the key is that there is a fab garlicky flavour to it, which makes the whole chickpea thing MUCH more exciting!

Erciyes
409 Cleveland St
Surry Hills NSW 2010
Phone (02) 9319 1309
BYO, bellydancing on certain nights

The turkish pizzas are also super yummy, quite large, and extremely reasonably priced ($12 and it's big and filling!), but it would also be quite easy to make a meal out of a selection of all their great dips. I went with a friend the other day and we ordered 2 pizzas and 2 dips and some bread, and neither of us could finish our pizzas. We devoured all the dip and I had the leftover pizza for dinner the next night.

I would also highly recommend ordering their pizzas and dips to cater for a slumber party or any party really - AND you can just buy the dips in large takeaway containers (okay, the containers come in all sizes, but why would you choose any size other than large?). A large container goes for about $12 and they give you a huge loaf of Turkish bread too. I once bought a large container of hommous and I was a very happy gal, snacking on it over the next few days. Okay, who am I kidding. It was my dinner one night and a snack over the next two days. ;-)