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| - Basic dips (the baba and the hummous) are to die for, but the menu and presentation is a little schizo. Look, constantly re-inventing yourself is fine if you are Madonna but it is not an endearing quality in a restaurant, especially a neighbourhood restaurant that is trying to appeal to the same crowd over and over. When they opened, everything was a la carte and very expensive. The standing joke was that this was the home of the $10 falafel and they lost business to the cheaper and faster competitor in the same strip mall. So they re-invented themselves for a year or two as a buffet, with both hot and cold dishes at a really good price, and this, history will show, was their high point. As this is written, fall 2013, they are in their third marketing incarnation where, for about the same price you once paid for a full hot and cold buffet, you now get a cold buffet only (with soup) and you need to upgrade at extra cost for hot dishes. I dont know where they will be next year but what these people do not realize is that people actually like predictability. If I want a surprise, I'll watch something on TV
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