Jerusalem Express - Puerto Vallarta

The humus is to die for and watching the pita bread being made is interesting and fun. Everyone should try the home made pita!! Next time I’m going for the falafels which we had last year and know are great. Can hardly wait to get back to this gem

Though a little hard to find, this is the place for mediterranean style food... it is a small place with no tables to sit, so it is pretty much food to go... I like going there and sittng on the steps... it is all about the food, nothing else!

Wow!!! Who would have thought that you would find excellent Mediterranean food in a small restaurant in Mexico? Well just head to Jerusalem Express in old town Vallarta and be surprised like me. I was talked into going in by a New Yorker who was enjoying her meal, saw me standing on the sidewalk deciding and invited me to enjoy Mediterranean food as good as in New York City . So I went in, ordered a falafel sandwich and was surprised just how excellent it was. Though the shop is really just a small restaurant with counter seating only the food is more than worth the small space and will be a regular stop as I live in Puerto Vallarta 6 months a year. So please go and enjoy. Also see my photos of the menu, the pricing and the owners.

I always look for Middle Eastern food wherever I go, so I was excited when my husband and I walked by Jerusalem express. The owner is a nice man who had two young ladies working for him. One doing the cooking on the grill and the other doing the vegetable prep. We ordered shwarma and kabob, and some extra hummus and pita. Everything except the pita was underwhelming and underflavored. I am used to Middle Eastern food bursting with flavors. Not so, here. The shwarma was made out of several patties instead of being shaved off a spit (I should have noticed the lack of a spit) and the kabob was chuncks of chicked thrown on the grill. Both were served in tasty pita though. But...with chopped cabbage. No cucumber sauces, no thinly sliced red onion, no tomato. Oh well. It wasn 't bad. But it wasn 't good either. It was just ok. Now back to the helpers. I noticed the young woman prepping the veges was having a hard time. She kept trying to sharpen the knife on one of those chef sharpener wand type sharpeners by rubbing it sideways and toward herself. I looked at my husband and said, someone needs to help her! Then, when she was cuttting the onions, I looked at him and said, she us going to cut her finger tip off the way she is doing that. just as we finished our meal, the poor thing did cut herself, badly! The other helper sat her down at a table, had her put pressure on it. Then some other young man did something to her that made her scream. Then the other helper came back up with a wad of **** napkins and put them in the top of the trash can that was sitting next to the prep area where she cut herself. The iwner didn 't go back and check on her. All of this in plain view of the diners. We grabbed our stuff and left a little sick to our stomachs.

The food was simply outstanding. Awesome hummus and excellent falafel. Four and a half blocks away from the beach is well worth the walk. There's indoor seating, or takeout. For a very small extra charge, you can add a sampler to your plate and try everything well worth doing. Everything is home made. If I lived in PV I'd be a regular.