Wolf & Bear's

By Matthew Korfhage

113 SE 28th Ave., 453-2872; Southwest 10th Avenue between Alder and Washington streets, 810-0671; 3925 N Mississippi Ave., 453-5044; eatwolfandbears.com. Lunch daily all locations, dinner nightly at the 28th and Mississippi locations.

Finally recovered from Jerry Seinfeld's visit last year, Wolf and Bear's is back to business as usual: making the finest falafel in town, with an array of options limited only by the number of 50-cent ingredient upgrades you want to add to your basic pita ($.7.50), sabich breakfast sandwich with hard-boiled egg and mango puree ($7.50) or the unbridled masterpiece, the olea ($7.50), which pairs a pungent kalamata tapenade with caramalized walnuts and Gorgonzola for a can't-miss condiment atop eggplant and red pepper. It is hellishly good even before you throw a couple of those consistently perfect falafel balls into the fluffy pita. Then it is heavenly.

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