Wild Rucola and Baby Spinach Salad Kimchi Fried Rice Sweet and Sour Chicken
Almond and Pistachio Parfait Sticky Toffee Pudding
The diners can also enjoy the refreshing, cold drinks, which include fresh juices, mocktails, iced teas, and sparkling fruit beverages. Crust and Crema brings to its customers dishes that are already a part of the taste palat in the Kingdom, but with its own individual flavour.
The appetisers include delicious items such as deep fried Camembert, spicy Thai beef meatlballs, Spanish garlic prawns, avocado prawns, and chicken fajita quesadillas. The fully renovated kitchen means dishes are prepared when ordered using the freshest ingredients, thus each dish tastes rich and flavourful in each bite. The salad menu has also expanded to including options such as Feta Cheese and Avocado salad that has a zesty lemon and olive oil dressing, or the Wild Rucloa and Baby Spinach served with sliced strawberries, melon, and a strawberry
vinaigrette dressing adding hint of sweet taste to the salad. The soup section has also been updated to introduce exciting options such as the spicy Tomato and Red Pepper, or the classic Chicken and Mushroom soup among others. For those looking for a more wholesome meal, the Asian curries are the ideal choice as they can be prepared using different meats, and even have a vegetarian option, and are served with aromatic basmati rice, the traditional yoghurt-based raita sauce, crispy popadom crackers, pickles, and chutney, and can decide how spicy they want the dish to be according to their tastes. Also serving a little local flavour, Crust and Crema also serves delectable Machboos dishes prepared in the traditional Bahraini way using the Khaleeji spices consisting of dried lime, saffron, topped with cashews and also served with basmati rice. For those
who want to just enjoy the rice, the café offers Chinese-style fried rice with meat and vegetarian options, and can even order plain or sticky steamed rice.
For the mains, diners have an eclectic selection of dishes from the Italian options of Chicken Tikka Pizza, to two different types of pastas such as the Cajun Chicken Alfredo or Zucchini and Spinach Penne, to more popular Western dishes such as Seafood Spaghetti, all of which are prepared using homemade sauces and freshly sourced ingredients. One of the most enticing dishes in the Mains is the Kimchi Fried Rice, a spicy dish originating from Korea. Kimchi, a fermented spicy and salted napa cabbage, is a mainstay side dish for most Korean mains, and though the flavours vary from home to home based on the spices used, at Crust and Crema the dish has been given a modern touch
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