Holy Land Market & Grill | New York Style Deli | Middle Eastern, Mediterranean Knoxville Tennessee

If different and authentic is what you are looking for when you come to the Smokies, then make the short drive to Knoxville and get some of the best New York deli style sandwiches and Middle Eastern food you will ever put in your mouth!

Holyland Market and Grill has been a staple in Knoxville for 18 years and the Ajlouny family are still going strong! With a great loyal local following, you are gonna feel like part of the family when you walk through the door!

Walter, the patriarch and founder of the market and restaurant needs help currently to find a kidney donor. If you want to help, contact the family at the store by calling Jason at 865-525-4659.

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It is a cold Winter’s night and we’re out here in Knoxville Tennessee today just outside the smokies and well I’ve been looking for some Heavenly food H where can I find Heavenly food something with a different flare maybe something Middle Eastern a little Mediterranean I’ve got it and not only

That but maybe I want to do a little shopping afterwards I can do it and like I said it is Heavenly food because we are here at holyland Market and Grill you can find holyland Market and Grill located at 3601 Southerland Avenue in Knoxville when you come into Holy Land Market and Grill you will see the dining room in the front and there are several uh table and chair setups as well as some high top tables you are going to go to the counter to place your order and

We will show a menu at the end of this video don’t forget to look inside that refrigerator case at the amazing desserts cheesecakes canoli and baklava all of it looks absolutely amazing and we’re going to try some of that for you and then they’ve got all of their homemade hummuses and so many

Beautiful fresh salads that it’s so hard to just even choose what to get and then we’ve also got some more baklava some rice balls and potato kishes uh check out the grocery store there is several different kinds of Turkish gites if you you like that it is

Yummy and you’ve got some uh Middle Eastern teas and coffees and I thought it was interesting their coffee is infused with cardamom and um almost bought some of that but uh maybe next time and they’ve got all kinds of cooking oils and various things that you can use to make

Your own Middle Eastern uh Foods at home the refrigerator case was interesting with various uh cheeses and something that we were excited to see was jar teram melada which is a caviar dip that is absolutely wonderful and we’re excited to try that Christy is excited to have baba

G which is an eggplant dip a Mediterranean or middle eastern uh eggplant dip and then we’ve got some pickles olives peppers and delicious peer bread all right dear so you want to start with the Baba G I like saying that Baba eggplant based uh Middle Eastern or Mediterranean dip and they’ve got fresh

Pea here Christy is excited you’re talk to yourself in the third person I have not had ban in quite some time has been a little while I probably years many years yes oh you going to twirl the Pea instead of the fork that may be the best babaan I’ve

Ever had even outside of New York however the folks who own this are from New York so they so they know well not because they’re from New York but they just they know they they clearly know because it’s amazing okay wow yummy mhm so I have to be honest one of the

Biggest reasons I wanted to come to Holy Land Market in Deli is the Baba Gan which is a roasted eggplant dip that is so good you can actually taste the roasting of the eggplant which is not something I’ve ever actually been able to taste in any other babaan and

They give us the wonderful Greek olives and they actually pit them for you so you’re not going to get a a seed in there but isn’t that wonderful we cannot come to a middle eastern restaurant without trying the Falafel which is like a fried chickpea and spiced Fritter and

Of course the suziki which is a yogurt and cucumber and garlic sauce up next Falafel yes Falafel and as I had said the Falafel is chickpea and spices Beau like a fritter look at the beautiful color on and it is deep fried and then we’ve got a delicious

They give us a whole bunch of this siki sauce which is cucumber garlic Greek Yogurt enjoying that nice flavor okay it’s not overly spicy yeah but you do taste those Middle Eastern spices in there but it’s not something that’s going to make you take a step back and think ooh that’s really really flavorful a really really spicy it’s just kind of nice and a nice

A nice vegan dish yes yep lot of vegan uh menu options and a lot of gluten-free options as well lot great healthy options yes absolutely so you decided to start off with the Greek salad and boy is that a pretty one Greek salad it is it’s beautiful

I want to get some cucumber and some some onion some olives got get the feta cheese some feta some chickpeas I want the whole N9 yards and I got it right there and I’m sure they have a housemade Greek dressing mhm is it a Greek dressing

Mhm oh yeah m John’s eating the same thing what do you think very good yep is it comparable to what you have had in the past absolutely I remember on our way here he was like I want a big old Greek salad did he talked me into the Greek salad because I tell

You it is so fresh and so light and I love the um the crunch of the chickpea comes in real nice the brininess saltiness of the olives that is just an excellent excellent sad awesome all righty for me I am having the chicken shawarma plates which is a chicken that has been

Marinated and um made and roasted on a spit and then cut off the spit and it’s got mushrooms onions Peppers it’s served over rice with pea and suziki sauce so chicken cha plate chicken charma and I have actually never had chicken charma so I’m excited that looks

Beautiful yeah when they give you quite a bit too so I’m going to get a get some of this rice and it’s the it’s like the vermicelli uh rice oh yes with the long the long grain oh wow that is a really nice flavor tastes a lot of oregano which is definitely

That Middle Eastern and Mediterranean feel and I’m try a little bit of the chicken with the the siki Okay it’s outstanding very good pork twirl for chicken chma I’m a big fan all right all right I have the lamb kebab plate look at these beautiful chunks of lamb I asked for that to be medium well that’s a little more done than I usually do but I decided on that

Tonight this has roasted red peppers there’s onions and mushrooms and then that rice and then of course that grilled Peete on the side with that beautiful suziki and twist of lemon I’m going to start out with just the rice and and veggies here how about that vermicelli rice it’s good wow the

Spices in that they’re just nice right mhm they’re just very very nice not overwhelming but delicious I am excited actually to have a bite of that as well excited lamb lamb kebab now yeah nice medium well oh isn’t that pretty and I’m going to that’s getting

Dunked I love little bit of the satii Sauce it just mess in your mouth it’s so good A little bit of lemon like I said just everything it it’s all so well balanced yeah that’s what I thought to it’s nothing it’s not overwhelming but it’s delicious so which sometimes you know you your flavors can be overwhelming

Absolutely um in in a restaurant that’s U you know unique to the area non bread can sometimes be greasy or it feels like a little greasy this is not that at all we had a feast but um we will show you some great desserts as a

Minute in a minute as well but for now it’s time to eat love what are you trying this is a cilantro hummus which I am a big big fan of cilantro you’re a hummus Queen this is something and you’re also a cilantro queen that John ordered and I wanted to

Try because I was like can I try that oh wow that is interesting in a good way I was going to say interesting can be taken interesting in a good way you got your creaminess of your chickpea and then you would think the cilantro would hit you right away but it

Kind of It kind of waits to the end okay and if you love cilantro you would love this wow that’s different so is it a little peppery hummus would you say peppery would be the word if that’s how you describe cilantro then yeah that would be my description that’s yummy okay totally

Different than anything I’ve ever had wow love it so this is the bumbleberry cheesecake and it is one of the specialty cheesecakes that Holy Land is known for love you have bumbleberry cheesecake I do and it is a mixed berry it looks like it’s got some strawberries blueberries maybe

Raspberries it looks beautiful and this is one of their showcase desserts that they I’ve seen it on their Facebook page quite a bit so and you can see how the berries kind of sink down into the beauti there that’s beautiful oh wow big old Fork twirl on that Golly Wow okay

Bro got it going on that is creamy delicious cheesecake not dense which is how I like it and the berries I’m not sure what they do to those berries but that is not your average Berry okay it might make you Bumble okay and for me it is a mix of two of my

Favorite desserts it’s baklava it’s cheesecake it’s baklava cheesecake that was an amazing meal but they have such awesome specialty desserts that we couldn’t say no today baklava cheesecake C did you get a picture of this I did this just looks amazing never had anything like that that is

Like there’s a great like honey flavor right but then you get that cheesecake coming in it’s got a really nice flaky crust I’m going back in looks good I can tell you like it let’s just say I’m nuts about Bak cheesecakes so here at the table Jason

Has just brought us a a huge spread of course look at this this is like Family Table we got this going on right now and we are here I like to say this I like to say we’re not in Israel but we are in the Holy Land right now I love that

Because we are here at Holy Land Market and Grill with the owner Jason aone Jason it is a pleasure to be here thank you so much for having us tonight great having you in our home this is amazing what you guys have got going on out here

Because not only do you have the food but you’ve got the beautiful Market over there that’s it so now how long have you guys been here so it’s uh actually in October it was 18 years we’ve been in this uh in this location in this location we’ve been a long time coming

Oh yeah yes that’s it we’re way behind here we are the day is now yes the day is now 18 years now so your family started this and now your dad has had to back away a little bit we know yeah all right so your dad is currently uh on a

Weit list for a Kidney donor is that right he is y okay so now how long has that been uh about a shy 3 months he’s been on a kidney list say uh a short 5 to 8 year waiting period yes yes so still waiting how is he doing right now

He’s stable he’s he’s doing the best that he can but absolutely things could be better but as always they could be worse absolutely so as we have a great night so as we get out in the community here guys we are in Knoxville if you know of someone who would like to talk

About kidney donation we’re going to talk about that we wanted to we wanted to bring that up because like I said that’s very important and of course being pillars of the community right here you guys have been here so long like I said I feel bad that we have not

Been over here yet but this this just looks amazing that’s great man I appreciate it and I hope you all enjoy and I’m sure you you will we we are going to try what if you had to say what was what what is your do you do you lean

More towards the Middle Eastern food are you a New York daily is it just you guys are really just a great combination of both we uh prefer the identity crisis of just just good food whatever it is we have Middle Eastern background Greek New York style I love if we have ingredients

You ask for it we’ll make it for you now what and you said uh so you said that you were doing for the bre bread I mean for bread for New York daily sandwiches we’re talking some authentic bread too right we have that shipped in from New

York our sub rolls our uh our Kaiser rolls our Ry bread all shipped in from New York you don’t see Kaiser rolls around here much when you hear Ry bread and Kaiser rolls yeah I get excited about that sck marble rice so yeah falu as we say in Arabic falo falu falo what

Is falu come and eat come and eat so if you’re in Knoxville Jason would like for you to faloo on down to the Holy Land come on by we’ll take care of you I love that it’s awesome love I would like to know how you feel about coming to the Holy Land

Market and Grill tonight see it Fork is twirling wow for those of you that don’t know when Christy Twirls the fork that means I really really liked it um first of all Jason and the folks here are very kind and they have an awesome family run business yes which is what we’re

About the food was fantastic best Baba Gan and I have had Baba gan from Greek restaurants up in New York they do it right you can actually taste that roasting of the eggplant which is incredible I enjoyed everything about my schwarma the spices the a grimelli style

Rice their Suzuki sauce is awesome it has a nice flavor in that garlic that fresh garlic kind of hits you in the back when you’re done Falafel was great everything was great and then they’ve got this great Market back here with all of the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern items I could

Probably be like a pig and mud back there buying stuff they even got Turkish gelite which I know John bought a few boxes of Turkish Gite so this is awesome this is like love it love it love it that’s all I can say two thumbs up A+ I’m good and two

Fork Twirls and two Fork Twirls yes and this bumbleberry oh good lord yes my I will just say that I can’t tell you how good that is and I will just conclude with I love that you’re talking about yourself in the third person tonight I’m really enjoying That final Thoughts From Me yes sir so I got the Greek salad yes large Greek salad when we were talking about coming here I shouted out from the back seat I’m getting a Greek salad I really want one not knowing what to expect and this is amazing really good very fresh um I

Was worried at first that might not be enough SE enough dressing on it I’ve had that happen in the past it was perfect in every way it was great nice nice refreshing change for the fried or the baked or the whatever else it may be that we

Have the hummus with the cilantro in it yeah something a little bit off the beaten path was awesome if you’re a cilantro lover you have to try that okay um and then of course as Christy said the Baba for me as well growing up in New York definitely the best babaan I’ve

Ever had and uh and you found it in Tennessee I did I did which is awesome um and then lastly we all tried different desserts so I had gotten the you got the traditional B traditional baklava so uh looks good and you see the honey on the bottom AB we’ll give it a

Try it’s kind of a big piece I apologize but no that’s all right that is really good that is some good looking baklava I’ll tell you that how do you find that Stacks up yeah I’ve had my share bakaba over the years and this is definitely up there I would

Say probably in my top two that I’ve had in this state and uh nice thing about baklava is if it’s not you don’t want to be too dry yes you get to flake on the top but when you dig in there’s something there waiting for you the honey and the nuts and

Everything else really good that’s awesome yep all right so you approve of of holy land market and G I do absolutely abolutely uh for the record he is already talking about what we’re getting if we come back so yesun on the menu that we didn’t touch

That’s for sure that’s right so we may have to make this a two-parter at some point that’s right all right mhm so we have concluded here first of all finishing up with a wonderful dessert which I’m not ashamed to say I’m going to eat it all so there’s plenty of

Leftovers going home everything that we had here was amazing uh um if you’re going to be in the Knoxville area let’s say maybe you live in the Smokies or maybe you’re in the Smokies on vacation but you’re looking for something completely off the beaten path something completely different from what you could normally

Get Holy Land Market and Grill has it for you Jason and his family are extraordinary and this location has been open now for 18 years we love small businesses locally owned businesses so if you are going to be in this area we definitely suggest Holy Land Market and

Grill it’s just on the other side of Kingston Pike like I said you just can’t beat it the combination of everything that we had here the Baba G was excellent I’m not an expert on Baba G or falafel but I’ve had some some that I didn’t necessarily care

For I didn’t have that problem here tonight in everything that we had here and the lamb oh the lamb roasted had this nice little Char just and the spices let me tell you what you can come in here and just have a great time over in the market but then

You sit down you enjoy a meal with family this is the right kind of thing that we’re doing here this is the right kind of business and we are so happy we thank Jason again for taking his time out to come over and speak with us and

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