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| - UPDATE : VERY SORRY to hear about the fire!! Hard to believe, such bad luck. I surely hope you had good insurance.
Be strong, start over, we need your skill and tasty food!
Please let us know if you get another start somewhere else, hopefully still on campus.
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Starting glitches have been mentioned. Somehow that rang an uncomfortable bell!
(Not to turn this political, but I wish we wouldn't hold an immigrant family offering excellent food, at standards degree of magnitude higher than the standards we hold our government and Dear "Leader" to. Another difference is between a family possibly risking their last penny into a business and a bunch of entitled profiteers in D.C. burning billions and trillions of OUR, not their money!)
Sorry for the (justified yet off-topic) rant. The good and on-topic news is that the dishes themselves are very good, and by no means do I regret stopping by Layalina.
I tried it today. I am only withholding five stars because I plan to visit it again and (hopefully) confirm my positive impressions.
Yes, the place looks like a cafeteria. Golden Harbor, the best Chinese place in town, doesn't look differently. If you want fancy ambiance, avoid. I don't go there for dates, but for the FOOD.
Layalina didn't seem dirty to me at all. It seems reasonably clean as food-making is concerned (I can't hold them responsible for the aspect of the building), the cooks even wear those single-use plastic gloves, which I liked. [Yes, please keep it all safe.]
Are there some minor organizational glitches having to do with them having just opened? Probably yes but, really folks, let's give them a break. Starting a business today.... in these times.... should we expect perfection? It seems to be a family, a very nice family (the counter guy was friendly and polite) which went into restaurant business and.... guess what.... the FOOD so far made me happy. Remember the food? We almost don't have this kind of tasty Mediterranean cuisine in U-C anymore, with Istanbul and Holy Land gone. The miraculously surviving campus "Jerusalem" is an ongoing joke, not only (famously grumpy) service-wise, but also the quality of the food isn't there. I really hope this new place survives.
At Layalina I had a chicken shaorma sandwich... excellent. Very good deal, at a low price. Mouth-watering, nicely marinated, tasty yet not strident sauce. I also got an appetizer plate - very good homemade humus and baba ganouj [ganoush], the stuffed grape leaves also good, their filling I mean... but they need to find better, less stringy jarred grape leaves [not easy in the U.S.] Overall very happy with food quality so far.
I really wish them good luck, and to improve on the minor "glitches" - the potential for a nice place to consistently get exciting food is definitely there.
I plan to go back and "update" my "stars" soon, either up or down. Hopefully up.
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