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| - This place has been opened for about 6 months I think, in place of "La Cantine" which closed almost a year ago. I was excited to try Syrian food with my friends, and walking in on a Friday night around 8pm, we were happy to see that they had many empty tables. Now I know why. After we sat down and ordered, the waiter says that they are extremely busy tonight because they use the kitchen for both this restaurant and the one next door, and the latter was quite busy and that we had to expect a slow service because he was alone dealing with both restaurants. (Thanks for letting us know after we ordered...!) We waited about 1 hour 15 minutes for our meal. He only thought about giving us bread when we asked for it, already about 1 hour through our wait time. However, he also gave us olives and a tasty beet dip for free to compensate for the wait. The Libanese wine was good. Most of us ate traditional Fatté dishes, which were good (it's a layered dish: rice, fried pita, meat or veggies, yogourt, nuts, pomegranate, cilantro). But we found it was a bit expensive for what we got, and we were a bit turned off by the wait. I would be open to going back and try something else on the menu; if the food is still good and the service is more efficient, I'll be willing to give 3 stars.
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