An assortment of dishes at Tawla. Photo credit: Smeeta Mahanti Related Links The Halal Guys' first Bay Area outpost opens June 3 Aziza: Mourad Lahlou's Richmond restaurant to get facelift While there are lots of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern eateries here in the Bay Area, Azhar Hashem thinks that they don’t do the regions’ cuisine justice. We see a lot of examples of street foods like kebabs, falafel and hummus, says Hashem, but it hasn’t evolved much beyond that. With Tawla, Hashem’s new Valencia Street restaurant, which is set to debut June 1, the first-time restaurateur is looking to change that. Much like how Gabriela Cámara’s Cala introduced San Francisco to a new way of thinking
