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| - Beautiful, beautiful restaurant. The decor was stunning, very well done. The food was outstanding, got the chicken shawarma, fried octopus and hummus. I would give them 5 stars but the few things that my partner and I noticed is why I'm giving two. Our waitress expected us to order as soon as we sat down without going over the menu (telling us the specials if there were any) and didn't ask us if we wanted anything other than water to drink which she didn't refill for us but one time and that was because we flagged her to ask for water. We ordered, as stated above in addition to the fish platter and fries. About 10 mins later we got the fried octopus then shortly after the chicken shawarma. 5 mins later she comes out to tell us that they ran out of fries, which we found odd that she didn't tell us after placing our order, but we just got rice instead. About 20 mins pass and we are waiting for the fish platter and when the other waitress who wasn't ours came over to give us the rice, we asked how long till the fish platter comes out. She said she would ask for us and shortly after our waitress came and started arguing with us saying we didn't order the fish platter, which was the first thing we asked about. After that we didn't see our waitress again other than seeing her focused on servicing the owner's table. We also noticed that she was on her phone, touching her face as she was handling food and at one point was eating from the kitchen. We had to walk up to the front to pay for our food because we were never checked on during our entire dinner, she only came over because we flagged her down for water and to argue with us about what we ordered. As we were paying we were helped by the waitress that wasn't ours and our waitress didn't say bye, or acknowledged us as she was walking by us to leave. It's a shame that such a gorgeous restaurant and great food was tainted by poor service. The staff needs to learn how to service more than one table and it wasn't even busy for her to not give exceptional service (there were literally 3 tables including ours and she had only us and the owner's table) which we still left gratuity even though we believe she didn't deserve it. I most likely will not be returning and cannot say I will recommend.
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