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| - Wildly inconsistent. We've tried Lazeez six or seven times now and the experiences have swung between incredible and terrible. After our last experience we will not be back unfortunately. First couple of meals (shwarma, kofta, falafel, hummus, etc...) ranged between so-so to good. Then we had a few excellent meals where the same dishes were clearly made by a different chef - fresh, well cooked, perfectly seasoned, vibrant flavors - definitely the best middle eastern food we've had in Charlotte. Then the next time we get the same dishes - meat is very dry, vegetables are wilted, old, falafel is tough and flavorless, the schug is not schug but just a bottled hot sauce. Garlic sauce all of a sudden is something closer to mayo with some garlic thrown in. It's really impossible to know what you'll even get. We were still willing to keep going back because of the few truly exceptional meals we had, until our most recent experience where everything in our take-out order except the hummus looked like it had been thrown together with leftovers - it was a low they hadn't hit before. On top of that my companion was eating the kofta and found a big piece of sharp metal in it. We just threw all of the food away after that. We are willing to put up with a lot and mistakes happen, but when you can see how sloppy and careless and poorly made the food is, then find sharp objects in it, you just have to wonder what other ways did they mishandle our food? Just how sloppy is this kitchen? We have a theory that there are likely two different chefs and one is clearly far more experienced and talented. It's just so hard to believe that the meals we've had could've all been made by the same person. Two stars for the two really good meals we had...but we definitely won't be back this time.
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