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| - This is one of my favorite places to go. Maybe for the wrong reasons.
I love the look of the restaurant, it's clean, modern and makes you feel like you're living in new york or L.A. for a day. It's also usually empty, which feels like Scooby doo would shiver and nervously go rut roh. but our waiter is always amazingly friendly and treated us like we were guests in his home.
The food is fun - well plated and strong flavors. My snapper entree was cooked perfectly and full of well balanced flavor. The veggies were placed on top, though they seemed to have been sitting around a while. The glaze on the veggies was a bit on the salty side and seeped into the fish though, which combined with the acidity of the lemon, forced me to eat in smaller bites or end up making weird faces befitting of a kid tasting mcd's sweet and sour sauce for the first time.
The kenafe here is amazing and one of my favorite things in life...it's not the traditional lebanese or palenstinian kenafe you usually get at smaller shops, it is a handmade freshly baked work of art. It's shredded phyllo dough with sweet goat cheese filling, then drizzled luxuriously with a simple syrup. The texture is a perfect crispy crunchy sweetness til you get to the jesusly melted sweet saltiness of the cheese. I can't get enough of it - if you've ever had the famous kenafe's from michigan, those taste like old socks in texture and flavor in comparison.
The burger is also great, as is the bread and dips, though the latter is milder in flavor than you may be used to or expect.
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