{"id":8694,"date":"2023-12-10T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=8694"},"modified":"2023-12-10T09:50:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T15:50:05","slug":"the-mediterranean-joint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=8694","title":{"rendered":"The Mediterranean Joint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8697\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231129_122432-300x269.jpg\" alt=\"The Mediterranean Joint\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231129_122432-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231129_122432-1024x916.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231129_122432-768x687.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231129_122432-1536x1375.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231129_122432.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/details.php?b=2013\">The Mediterranean Joint<\/a> serves up some delicious fare, and I look forward to future visits whenever I&#8217;m near the Gateway shopping center on Willy Street.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The focused menu primarily consists of gyros, beef kebabs, chicken shawarma, kofta (meatballs)\u00a0 and falafel in wraps, with pita or as plates with rice.<\/p>\n<p>I liked the gyro wrap ($10.99) but don&#8217;t think of it quite like a gyro. The lamb is not shaved off a spit; rather, it&#8217;s more akin to a lamb patty. Also, the wrap uses a tasty grilled Turkish lavash (thin flatbread), it&#8217;s not overloaded with onions and the tzatziki sauce is heavy on the dill.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231129_123536-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"The Mediterranean Joint\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231129_123536-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231129_123536-1024x902.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231129_123536-768x676.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231129_123536-1536x1352.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231129_123536.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The beef meatballs in the kofta plate ($16.99) are grilled and perfectly spiced, sitting on a bed of fluffy, buttery rice. They come with pita bread as well as greens, tomatoes and onions tossed in oil. It&#8217;s a wonderful plate of food, one that I would order again.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a fan of baba ghanoush, and you can order it as an appetizer with pita bread ($6.50) or as a side ($1.50), which comes in a tiny cup. Aside from the small portion, the baba ghanoush was perhaps the best I&#8217;ve ever had, creamy with a little kick from the cayenne pepper.<\/p>\n<p>Other appetizers include the grape leaves plate ($6.50) and Haidari yogurt dip plate ($5.99).<\/p>\n<p>For dessert, you can choose between the Turkish walnut baklava ($3.99) and pistachio baklava ($3.99). I got the latter, and it was a flaky, nutty and sweet treat.<\/p>\n<p>The Mediterranean Joint is open for lunch and dinner Monday through Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mediterranean Joint serves up some delicious fare, and I look forward to future visits whenever I&#8217;m near the Gateway shopping center on Willy Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[182,79],"class_list":["post-8694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-restaurant-reviews","tag-mediterranean","tag-near-east"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8694"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8703,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions\/8703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}