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My wife works with some people from Cleveland and asked for a good Soul Food restaurant and Zanzibar came highly recommended.
We had already looked at the menu online and pretty much knew what we wanted. As we walked in we were greeted by the hostess and quickly seated. The decor is very nice with a cozy waiting area with a fireplace and a few tables to play Chess will you wait for a table. The space is a lot of dark browns with hard wood floors and candles on the tables. This would be a great date night spot. Sandra, our waitress brought us water and menus. Our drinks and corn muffins came out quickly. I had the sweet tea, my wife had the "Purple Rain" (grape Kool-Aid and Lemon Aid) and our daughter had Red Kool-Aid.
My wife and I both ordered the Honey Glazed Fried Chicken, (1/2 of a chicken in dark meat which was two large thighs and two drumsticks for each of us.) with "House Potatoes" (similar to Au Gratin) and baked mac & cheese. Our daughter had the Chicken & Waffles with grits. The chicken was hot and juicy, perfectly seasoned with nice crunchy skin, some of the best fried chicken I have ever had! The potatoes were very good as well but, the mac & cheese was OUTSTANDING!!!!!! My daughter doesn't really like grits so I swiped them and they were delicious! Nice, thick and creamy, just a bit too salty for my taste.
During our meal we were greeted by the owner. He asked how our meals were and how we had heard about his restaurant. We told him we were visiting from Pittsburgh and he told us that he was originally from Aliquippa, a nearby town. We also started to talk about cars and how he was looking at a Porsche Cayenne from Porsche of Beachwood and I was telling him about the one I had just bought there and also about upcoming Lexus cars as we both drive Lexuses as well. We went on for at least ten minutes. He is such a nice guy and he was very down to earth.
My only two complaints are that there is no kids menu. (There were four other children there while we were there.) And that we were only given a tiny little basket of corn muffins (maybe 5) with no butter and the table next to us was given a huge basket of corn muffins (at least 15 ) and butter.
Zanzibar easily blows away any Soul Food restaurant I have ever tried in Pittsburgh. The decor is upscale, the food is amazing, the prices are dare I say cheap for the quality and amount of food your get, the owner is from the Pittsburgh area and the service was top notch. We will be back EVERY TIME we are in Cleveland!
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