New Mimi’s Hummus Spot Gets Some Love From New York Times

Ditmas Park favorite Mimi’s Hummus received high praise from the NewYork Times this week for one of its two Manhattan offshoots.

The Times explores all the offerings at the Mimi’s Hummus located on East 14th Street in Manhattan, which opened last fall. Times reviewer, Ligaya Mishan, describes the falafel served there with these glowing words:

“[The falafel are] impeccable orbs with dark, thin shells that are crisp for an instant and then disintegrate. The insides are moist without density, nearly half air and herbs. You can ask for them tucked into a pita or, better, arranged in a neat X over the hummus that made the chef’s name……

I first tasted Ms. Kitani’s hummus in 2009, when writing about the proliferation of hummus parlors in New York City. At the time, I thought it was the best in town. I still do.”

Interestingly, the Times says, our Mimi’s on Cortelyou Road still doesn’t serve falafel because owner Mimi Kitani “wanted people to try other dishes, drawn from her family’s roots in Morocco and Iraq, and to stop thinking of falafel as the epitome of Middle Eastern cuisine.”

Kitani has also opened a stand at UrbanSpace Vanderbilt, a food hall with twenty artisanal vendors, located next to Grand Central on Park Avenue.

Mimi’s Manhattan locations are spreading the culinary joy we’ve gotten used to in Brooklyn, writes Mishan. “For those of us not so fortunate to live in Ditmas, it is a boon to finally have Mimi’s close by.”