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| - Short Take: Excellent, garlicky, well-executed Lebanese standards. Pita bread is served with one of my all time favorites: z'atar in olive oil. The value is excellent; these folks do not scrimp. One dish easily serves 2 or 3 people. Suggest you stay with the appetizers, or mezzes, and order only a mixed grill to share--it's a ton of food--unless you're like us and over order and eat it for 2-3 days. Lebanese food is meant to be eaten family style. Use your hands. Throw it all in the middle of the table, tear off pieces of bread and dip, and roll up meat and veggies and dip and eat. Repeat. Just don't double dip.
Baseline: We love garlic, lots of it; powerful, raw, sharp; cooked, mellow, lucious. Any way it comes, we love it. Taza serves it up in all these wonderful ways.
On our first visit, we ordered the shawarma plate, the labneh (garlickly yogurt with parsely), jibneh (grilled cheese drizzled with pomegranate syrup), mixed grill platter (spiced beef kafta, chicken brochettes, and beef brochettes), foule medamas (cooked pinto and foule beans (like lima beans) with fresh lemon juice finish), babganoush (or "baba") (fire grilled eggplant that is smashed and seasoned as a dip), hummus, manakish--one of each z'atar, spinach, feta--Lebanese pizza, and falafel.. The mixed grill came with french fries; hot and crispy on the outside and creamy on the inside. Bonus: the fries were sprinkled with more z'atar. Excellent.
Each of the dishes arrived meticulosly plated and hot. With the mixed grill, we got a little container of "garlic." It's actually a garlic mousse, which is garlic heaven. It's sharp, raw, pungent, and crazy delicious if you love garlic as much as we do. I make this stuff at home; some people call it garlic sauce, or aioli, or skordalia (Greek), but here our server said they just call it "garlic." I call it swoon worthy.
They kept us supplied with warm pitas.
We liked the shawarma plate and the foule the least, but both were still good. The shawarma was overly spiced and a bit too finely shredded.
My second visit was to pick up take out; everything was packed meticulously and was just as delicious in our hotel room. I added soujouk (Lebanese sausages served in stewed tomato sauce) to our list for take out. Outstanding. So good that I ate it cold the next morning with a hot piece of pita out of the microwave.
The 6th Street location has a beautiful backroom that is ideal for large groups.
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