Olive Cafe is gone, replaced by Little Egypt

Four months after The Pitch extolled the virtues of the Olive Cafe, the cozy little Middle Eastern restaurant at 3927 Broadway — with its pretty house salads and restorative sage tea — the owner of that restaurant, Salah Mansi, sold the business to Egyptian-born businessman Mohammed Hakam. Hakam’s beautiful fiancee, Yumna Mohamed, is a cousin of Mansi’s and is now managing the venue, the one-month-old Little Egypt Cafe.

The current menu isn’t nearly as elaborate as the Olive Cafe’s — the sage tea and all the British candy bars are gone — but the dishes they are serving are still visually beautiful and delicious.