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| - Visited Cedars tonight while in town on business. It was delicious!! I am half Lebanese so I'm pretty picky about my middle eastern food - this place did not disappoint.
As everyone else has stated, it was immaculate and the service was super friendly. I came in pretty late, only about 45 minutes before closing so I was the only one in the restaurant. I had the Cedars Combo: hummus, labne, falafel, kibbeh, grape leaves, sanbousek and they substituted tabouli for the baba ghanouj for me without any trouble.
My food came out a bit slow, but I suspect this was because they were having a slow night so everything was prepared fresh. Both the kibbeh and the sanbousek were hot and crispy, had not been sitting around at all, and the bread was warm and soft. Everything tasted delicious and was prepared just right. I'm always leery of ordering grape leaves in restaurants because they are often canned and taste mushy and oily. These were fresh and tasted just as they should. My only complaint was that the parsley in the tabouli tasted a little off, like perhaps it was re-hydrated dried parsley rather than fresh. It might just be that it was chopped very fine, and it tasted good anyway so not such a big deal, just not exactly what I expected.
I ordered a piece of baklava to go before leaving, very glad I did! It was one of the highlights of the meal - light and crispy, not drowned in sugar syrup and just the right amount of nuts. I will definitely come back to this place whenever I'm in town.
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