Cafe Greg - Talpiyot Mall Jerusalem

I am starting to think that Shashuka is not scale-able.  The bigger the restaurant the less awesome the shakshuka.

Greg is a wonderful restaurant in the newly renovated Mall in southern Jerusalem.  The windows brought bright light into the room.  The mall is very nice, the shakshuka was just ok.  The trend is to have more than one shakshuka to offer on the menu and Cafe Greg was up to that challenge.  My companion for the day, a frequent guest blogger here, got the Shakshuka Tivoni while I took the house shakshuka.

The accompanying salad was good, and the service was prompt, delivered while piping hot and with fresh bread (elements not to be overlooked; few things in the Shakshuka world are worse than room temperature shakshuka).  The dish was neutral; I'd rather not call it bland.  The eggs were cooked appropriately and the sauce was not too thin but it lacked energy in the vegetable accompaniment or any kick to the taste buds.