El Karnak Luxor

If you can handle walking into a place, getting looks for not being middle eastern, and love Mediterranean/​Egyptian food, I suggest you try it. Make the waitress read the hand written arabic menu to you, it has some gems.
The owner, well I’m assuming he is the owner, Ali is very nice and appreciates his customers. I will be back next time I am in Queens.

From the outside, El Karnak Luxor looks like just another Steinway Street hookah lounge. The food menu looks pretty uninspiring – falafel, hummus, and kabobs, pretty much.
Screw the menu, though.
Usually, you’ll find a dog-​eared sheet of paper with some Arabic written on it when you open the menu. If you read Arabic, then you probably already know what to do. If you don’t read Arabic, ask the friendly staff for a translation.
We hit the Egyptian food jackpot: in addition to koshari (hearty, cheap macaroni/​rice/​lentil dish), an amazing couscous with lamb and roasted vegetables, and fattoush salad (tomato, cucumber, peppers, parsley, and toasted pita bits), they were serving… stuffed revenge!
See, I hate pigeons. A very smelly, loud pigeon lived in a massive pile of bird poo on my windowsill in Chicago years ago. More recently, a pigeon dropped a big, stinky bird deuce all over my neck and shoulders, when I was already having a bad day.
So thanks to my new friends at El Karnak, I got revenge: roasted pigeon, stuffed with a very tasty barley pilaf. Justice is mine! And more importantly, some very tasty dark meat is also mine.