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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, October 18, 2000
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Rabih Badddoura, Qatar junior, is a co-owner of Casablanca Café, 2223 C Louisiana St., which serves Middle Eastern, North African, and Persian food in an authentic setting. He is taking a break from school to open his restaurant, which features a Saudi Arabian tent, Syrian cushions and Turkish rugs. Photo by Thad Allender/KANSAN
International decoration food highlight restaurant
By Matt Morkel-Hess
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
A new restaurant is bringing the flavor of the Middle East, Persia and North Africa to Lawrence with a twist — it has an indoor tent where customers can sit on cushions at low tables.
Casablanca Cafe, 2223 C Louisiana St., opened four weeks ago and business has increased steadily, said coowner Rabih Baddoura.
"Nobody has the same decoration in Lawrence," he said. "It's something different that no one has tried."
Baddoura said the tent was from Saudi Arabia, the cushions Syria and the rugs Turkey. The restaurant also has regular seating and booths.
Casablanca Cafe also imports all of its spices, which are ground fresh every week.
"All of our decoration, food and spices are a mixture of Middle East, Persia and North Africa," Baddoura said. "We tried to bring the best of each region and have it here in our
CASABLANCA CAFE
Location: 2223 C Louisiana St.
Phone: 830-8888
Hours:
11:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday
11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday
Noon to 9 p.m. Sunday
restaurant."
Safouane Elmansour, Rabat, Morrocco, senior, is a walter at the cafe and said he enjoyed the restaurant because many of the employees were students. He also said that large groups of people often ate in the tent and then hung around and enjoyed the atmosphere.
"We bring something that the other Middle Eastern restaurants couldn't, which is atmosphere," he said. "On top of that, the food is great."
Baddoura said the gyros, shawerma, tabbouleh, falafel and other items on the menu were similar to home-style cooking he had at his parents' home in Qatar, which is one
reason why he wanted to start the restaurant.
"I was really missing the food," he said. "The food we do here is the same quality you would have in a home."
Baddoura came to Lawrence in January 1997 to study aerospace engineering but is taking a break from school to focus on the restaurant. He said planning began almost a year ago, when he and co-owner Ahmed Alrumaith talked about opening a sandwich deli.
But their plans changed when they found the current location and realized they could open a full-service restaurant.
"You can never tell how plans will change," he said. "I'm really satisfied with the response we've been having with the customers."
Baddoura, 24, said he hadn't planned to open a restaurant when he came to Lawrence, but he thought it was good to take the risk when he was young and didn't have much responsibility.
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Residents fear crime at complex
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revealed that no current or past residents were involved. She said the crimes were not related to anyone in the complex, citing last week's robbery of a Gumby's pizza delivery driver as an example.
"We called Gumby's and spoke to the management and the man who was assaulted," Wintle said. "He admitted he was followed down 15th. When he stepped out of the car to deliver his pizza, that's when they jumped him."
"We cooperate as much as we can," said Lawrence police Det. M.T. Brown. "We are more than willing to cooperate with any complex managers."
Brown added that the police department would be willing to answer any questions the complex managers presented.
Brian Hanni, Topeka junior, who has lived at the complex for just more than a year, is one of the complex's concerned residents. He said he had been more cautious since two of his friends' cars were burglarized.
"I used to leave the face on my CD player and all my CDs in the car," Hanni said. "Since then, to this day, I won't leave the face on and I conceal anything of value."
Det. Brown said the area was prone to auto burglaries.
Chase Pettus, Fayetteville, Ark., junior, left his car parked under a light in the lot for about 24 hours when he traveled with Hanni to St. Louis for a Cardinal's game in August. When he returned from his trip, he found someone had broken into his car.
"They broke in my window to get into the vehicle and messed up the dashboard trying to get the CD player out," Pettus said. "They also messed up the frame of my door trying to get in. It was around $1,500 to get it fixed. But they left my Bible." — Edited by Erin McDaniel
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graduate & undergraduate students:
•tuesday, october 24, 3:30-5:00, big 12 room, kansas union
•monday, october 30, 3:00-4:30, pioneer room, burge union
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•wednesday, October 25, 3:30-5:00, jayhawk room, kansas union
•friday, october 27, 11:30-1:00, frontier room, burge union
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volunteer to work at a polling site in lawrence
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call CCO at 861-4073 to volunteer
please attend one of the following brief training sessions: tuesday, october 24, at 7 and 8pm in the centennial room, kansas union
wednesday, october 25 at 4, 5, and 6pm in the lawrence public library auditorium
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the center for community outreach • 426 kansas union • 864-4073
Curtis Sloan and Kimberly Fuchs
And to the finalists
Christi Garton * Julliete Ast * Erin Simpson * Kendra Seaman * Marlon Marshall * Michael Hevel * Eric Snider * Ben Walker
Be sure to see them introduced at the homecoming Parade (this Friday, at 2:30) and at the homecoming football game on Saturday!!
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