{"id":1875,"date":"2015-10-24T08:25:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T16:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2015-10-24T08:37:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T16:37:51","slug":"promise-mediterranean-promises-excellent-eats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/promise-mediterranean-promises-excellent-eats\/","title":{"rendered":"Promise Mediterranean promises excellent eats"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Megan Clark\r\nCampus Life Editor<\/pre>\n<p>Baset Shagrun, co-owner of the food cart, is an international student from North Africa, who came to Western with his brother, the other co-owner. <\/p>\n<p>Shagrun said he had difficulties finding a space to lease for his restaurant, so he decided to use a food trailer.<\/p>\n<p>They are open until 3 a.m., meaning they stay open the latest out of the restaurants in Monmouth, which will serve night owls and late night partiers alike.<\/p>\n<p>I purchased the lamb shawarma for $7, due to all other meat options being sold out.<br \/>\nThey packed the pita, a soft flatbread, full of tender and savory meat to the point where I couldn\u2019t feasibly bite into it, and it was hard to pick out pieces and eat them before being able to enjoy the meal in its entirety. <\/p>\n<p>I also had and order of their hummus, which was as delicious as the main course.<br \/>\nThe shawarma came with tomatoes, lettuce, and tahini sauce, though I asked for a side of tzatziki sauce- a cucumber, yogurt, and herb mixture- that was on par, if not better, than other tzatziki sauces I\u2019ve had.<\/p>\n<p>As the only food cart in Monmouth, Promise Mediterranean drew a lot of attention from local residents and students, successfully introducing the food cart trend that has been popularized in Portland. <\/p>\n<p>On their opening day, they even had the mayor of Monmouth come out and sample their dishes.<\/p>\n<p>Every time I have passed the trailer, there have always been people milling around, waiting for food, or sitting on a picnic bench and enjoying their meal.<\/p>\n<p>Shagrun said, \u201cWe want to have great prices for students &#8230; because we are students as well.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>They wanted to open up a Mediterranean food cart to bring something new and different to Monmouth, and it seems they have succeeded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baset Shagrun, co-owner of the food cart, is an international student from North Africa, who came to Western with his brother, the other co-owner. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":1877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}