San Diego County / El Cajon / Food & Drink
Food & Drink in El Cajon
Luna Grill
El Cajon, CA · San Diego County
Mediterranean-cuisine restaurant chain location. Cuisine tag only — no ownership or halal-certification claim is made or implied by this listing.
Sahara
El Cajon, CA · San Diego County
Tagged in OpenStreetMap as Middle Eastern / Mediterranean cuisine. No ownership or halal-certification claim is made or implied by this listing.
Family Golden Palace
El Cajon, CA · San Diego County
Tagged in OpenStreetMap as Mediterranean cuisine. No ownership or halal-certification claim is made or implied by this listing. No official business website found — the phone number is from third-party directory listings, not the business's own site, so treat it as unconfirmed until claimed.
Mal Al Sham
El Cajon, CA · San Diego County
Tagged in OpenStreetMap as Syrian cuisine; self-described on the business's own site as "The Taste of Damascus." No ownership or halal-certification claim is made or implied by this listing.
Abn Al Sham
El Cajon, CA · San Diego County
Mediterranean/Levantine restaurant. No ownership or halal-certification claim is made or implied by this listing. No geo coordinates yet since it is not present in OpenStreetMap.
Mr. Shawarma
El Cajon, CA, San Diego County, CA · San Diego County
Operates as a food truck with rotating stop locations around El Cajon rather than one fixed storefront — this explains the conflicting street addresses found across different delivery/review platforms during research, so no single fixed address is listed here. Halal status is self-described (community-tagged in OpenStreetMap), not an authority certification.
Kabul Kabob House
El Cajon, CA · San Diego County
Afghan restaurant (kebab cuisine), included at the site owner's request. Afghanistan is not an Arab country and Dari/Pashto are not Arabic, so no Arab-community affiliation is implied by this listing — it is included here as a Middle Eastern/kebab-cuisine restaurant, not as part of the Arab American or Arabic-speaking community coverage described elsewhere on the site. Halal status is self-described (community-tagged in OpenStreetMap), not an authority certification.
Happy Time Mediterranean Restaurant
El Cajon, CA · San Diego County
Mediterranean restaurant on Jamacha Road. No ownership or halal-certification claim is made or implied by this listing.
Uncle Feras Middle Eastern Restaurant
El Cajon, CA · San Diego County
Middle Eastern restaurant on West Douglas Avenue. No ownership or halal-certification claim is made or implied by this listing.
Al Awael Restaurant
El Cajon, CA · San Diego County
Iraqi cuisine restaurant, per East County Magazine's review. No official business website or confirmed phone number was found, so neither is listed here. No ownership or halal-certification claim is made or implied by this listing.
Sinbad Mediterranean Cuisine
El Cajon, CA · San Diego County
Mediterranean restaurant on Jamacha Road. No ownership or halal-certification claim is made or implied by this listing.
Al Umaraa Restaurant & Market
El Cajon, CA · San Diego County
Iraqi and Mediterranean restaurant and market, per the business's own site. The business's own website does not list a street address; the address shown here (867 Jamacha Road) comes from a community social-media post referencing the business rather than the business's own site or Google Maps/Yelp, so treat it as unconfirmed until the owner claims this listing. No ownership or halal-certification claim is made or implied by this listing.
Saray Restaurant Charcoal Grill
El Cajon, CA · San Diego County
Turkish charcoal-grill restaurant. No ownership or halal-certification claim is made or implied by this listing.
Dubai Loco
El Cajon, CA · San Diego County
No official business website or confirmed phone number was found, so neither is listed here. Some third-party directories describe this business as halal, but that claim could not be verified against the business's own site, so no halal status is recorded. No ownership claim is made or implied by this listing.
Sultan Baklava Mediterranean Grill
El Cajon, CA · San Diego County
Mediterranean grill and baklava/sweets shop on East Main Street. No ownership or halal-certification claim is made or implied by this listing.
Al Azayem Restaurant
El Cajon, CA · San Diego County
Iraqi cuisine restaurant, per multiple third-party menu listings. Opening hours were not listed on the business's own site. No ownership or halal-certification claim is made or implied by this listing.
The Habibi Sweets
El Cajon, CA · San Diego County
Sweets and dessert shop. No official business website was found — the phone number is from a third-party directory listing, not the business's own site, so treat it as unconfirmed until claimed. No ownership claim is made or implied by this listing.
Tarbosh Mediterranean Restaurant
El Cajon, CA · San Diego County
Located at 1142 E Main St, El Cajon — the same address at which a Syrian restaurant called "Gate of Damascus" was covered by local press and food blogs in 2022, though Tarbosh's own site does not itself confirm a name change, so this is noted as an address overlap rather than a confirmed rebrand. Tarbosh's site describes its kitchen team as drawing on Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi, Turkish, and Jordanian culinary traditions (Turkish being a non-Arab tradition among them) and states the menu is "100% halal." No self-identified Arab-ownership claim is made.
The Palms Restaurant & Banquet Hall
El Cajon, CA · San Diego County
Mediterranean restaurant on E Main St in El Cajon that also operates an attached banquet hall for family and corporate events. No ownership or halal-certification claim is made or implied on the business's own site.
Al Rafadian
El Cajon, CA · San Diego County
Also transliterated "Al Rafidain" (الرافدين, "Mesopotamia") — a Middle Eastern market and restaurant counter on Broadway in El Cajon. Its menu is explicitly Iraqi (beef shawarma, Iraqi samoon bread, dolma), and an independent Arab American News (Rakwa) article describes it as serving El Cajon's Iraqi-American/Arab community and offering halal meats — but that halal claim comes from press coverage, not a first-party statement from the business itself, so no halalStatus is recorded here. No self-identified Arab-ownership claim from the business itself was found.
Ishtar Restaurant and Banquet Hall
El Cajon, CA · San Diego County
Mediterranean and Middle Eastern restaurant with an attached banquet hall on W Main St in El Cajon (hummus, falafel, shawarma, kabobs per directory descriptions). No official business website was found, so no ownership or halal claim can be confirmed from a first-party source — the name references the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar, but no explicit Iraqi/Assyrian self-identification by the business was located, so that connection is not asserted here.
CRAVE Mediterranean Grill
El Cajon, CA · San Diego County
Mediterranean/Middle Eastern wrap-and-salad restaurant on Jamacha Rd in El Cajon. Note: an unrelated, separately-owned "Crave Mediterranean Grill" chain based in Glendale, CO uses the same name on a different domain and lists no California locations — this El Cajon business has its own independent website and is not affiliated with that chain. No halal or ownership claim is made or implied by this listing.
Aladin Trio
El Cajon, CA · San Diego County
Middle Eastern/American fusion fast-food restaurant (falafel, shawarma, plus Nashville hot chicken) on Jamacha Rd in El Cajon. Its own site states "All our food is Halal." Note: some delivery aggregators list a different nearby address (2650 Jamacha Rd) for this business — the address here follows the business's own website as the source of truth, but this may reflect a past location change worth confirming if the owner claims this listing. No phone number was found on a compliant source. No ownership claim is made or implied by this listing.