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I went in on a weekday on my lunch hour. I usually pop into The Simple Greek next door, but I'd been curious about this place, and I find Aladdin's to be meh, so I thought, what the heck! Let's give it a go...I got back to work 10 minutes late and starving.
There was only one other table, a couple, seated when I arrived. Not in any way busy. Once I said it was an order for here, I sat down and the server brought me over a menu. I ordered the kafta pita sandwich and waited.
And waited.
And waited.
Two tables were seated after me, and one table of two was brought their food ahead of me before I finally gave up and left. The faces of the other patrons looked impatient as well. I kept thinking that it had to be any minute now, so I stuck around longer than I should have. Once the other table was delivered the food that I thought was mine, I went to the counter to ask how much longer it would be. They had just put the meat on the grill for my sandwich.
After waiting 40 minutes, for a sandwich, I left, telling them I really had to go. The servers apologized.
It's a family run business, and while they may make good food (which I can't comment on--it did smell delicious) they clearly have no idea how to run a restaurant. The cooks working the grill were taking the tickets out of order and did not look at all like they were trying to be efficient. One cook came back from his lunch and was offering samples of some kind of meat to the servers and other cooks, in front of the dining area, where their patrons were waiting...not so patiently at this point. The *teenage* server was trying to keep them on task and explain that people were there on their lunch and they needed to speed up. I appreciated her efforts, at least.
MAYBE I'd stop in again when I have a couple hours, but otherwise for Mediterranean type food, I'll stick to the place next door.
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