I really really want to like this place more than I do. I have eaten here quite a few times including the very first day they were open. I was excited for this place!
Every single time everything has been very decent. But it has never been great.
I love hummus but have always thought that Aladdin's is very bland. If you like baba ghanoush go for it instead here. I do really like their vegetable plate you can get with it.
The service is another area that is lacking. I always get the feeling that no one really cares about their job. Once I came in and ordered a couple slices of cheesecake to go (which are not very good. All of their cheesecakes are pretty much the exact same inside. Just different levels of prettiness on the outside) and was standing in the middle just watching everyone back in the prep area. They were all just bickering about everything with each other. Then one guy knocked a squeeze bottle on the floor which then got kicked by another girl and then picked up off the ground and refilled with some juice for smoothies and stuck back in the refrigerator.
Things like that just show that either the management is not competent or well liked enough to have the employees care about their job. I have been back a couple times since then, but am just not as excited about the place as I wish I could be.
I would love for a really good local Lebanese or Turkish restaurant to move into the area with food made by a chef/owner who really cared about what he was creating. I guess one can wish!