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STYLE OF CUISINE

Style of the food Something soulful is sizzling at the Rumi Grill and Cafe. Blending the flavours, spices, and unparalleled hospitality from the cultures spanning the ancient Silk Road, our charcoal grill is bursting with something fresh for every palate. We fuse artisanal details, a homemade touch, and cosmopolitan flare fit for today's Main.

INSPIRATION

Inspired by that timeless poet of sacred love, Rumi, and his world, we know that a meal is meant to nurture spirit and body both. Our menu pleases not just the tongue but the rest by drawing from principles of traditional, Prophetic medicine while keeping to the highest quality organic and local ingredients.

INGREDIENTS

Persian Saffron: Delicately culled from the center of crocus flowers, saffron has long been the world's costliest spice. Aside from the unmistakable flavour and colour it lends to fine cuisine, saffron is an aphrodisiac and mood-enhancer.
 
Aleppo Pepper : The ubiquitous red pepper from Aleppo with a subtle kick to bring out the flavour of a meal without flooding its companions. Again, hot-spice leaves you smiling.  
 
Pomegranate : A heavenly fruit with a bead of dew from the source: it's said that within each fruit is a seed from paradise. A powerful anti-oxidant, the west is just beginning to discover this old-world treasure..  
 
Walnuts: The best food is balanced in taste and temperature: walnuts are master balancers and have been proven strengthen essential brain functions, even fighting Alzheimer's.
 
Chick-peas: Another love-drug, the chick-pea is known raise up the body as leaven does dough.
 
Oriental Cucumber: Delicate and cooling, the cucumber is a perfect companion to hot-foods, especially meat.
 
Kamuraska Lamb: This world famous lamb from the North Quebec gains it's particular taste a texture from the animals being raised ecologically on wild herbs near the salt marshes of the Saint Lawerence.
 
Bio-dynamically produced, organic yogurt from Pine Hedge farms: Prepared using Rudolf Steiner's spiritually and ecologically sensitive techniques of agricultural, this is simply the best yogurt to be found.
 
Quebec Yukon-Gold Potatoes: Pesticide free potatoes grown locally and fried in sunflower oil yield what guests have called the "best fries in Montreal".
 
Butternut squash: Another food said to have mythically descended from the sky and an essential in Prophetic medicine, our squash is local to Quebec.
 
Eggplant: Eggplant is potent eastern delight especially when grilled over embers. When taking as cure, it heals remarkably.

Les noix : Une nourriture idéale est celle où le goût et la température sont harmonieux. Les noix sont les reines de l’équilibre. Elles ont également la propriété de renforcer les fonctions essentielles du cerveau et même de lutter contre la maladie d’Alzheimer.