New restaurant opens in Bailey’s Crossroads

A small restaurant that opened March 2 in Bailey’s Crossroads offers a mix of Peruvian-style rotisserie chicken and Middle Eastern fare.

Oozie Café & Restaurant is on Columbia Pike, in front of Duccini’s Pizza, which is at 3420 Carlyn Hill Drive. Both restaurants are owned by Ali Zamzame, who also owns a Duccini’s on U Street in D.C.

The menu at Oozie includes shawarma (chicken, beef, or lamb), falafel, rice bowls, wraps, salads, hummus, yuca, all-day breakfast, various coffees, and desserts, as well as quarter, half, and whole chickens.

The site used to be check-cashing place. Zamzame says that before he opened Duccini’s a couple of years ago, “this area used to be a mess, with drug dealers hanging around. We really cleaned it up.”