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| - Had the $9.99 lunch buffet which includes iced tea, soda, whatever. Buffet had at least 3 salads plus usual leafy greens, pitas (which were not as warm and pliable as I would like - only false note), tiny little meat pies, rice, kofta meatballs with potatoes in a sauce, lamb and green peas in another sauce, chicken-mushroom-red peppers in another sauce, chicken-eggplant in the yummiest sauce, another ground meat-rice casserole that I skipped and fish in a lemon-tinged tomato sauce. Fish was supposed to be grouper which seems a bit expensive for this kind of buffet, but it wasn't catfish/tilapia or the other usual suspects but thick and meaty and altogether yummy. Every dish had a distinctive flavor. Hubby and I both ate way too much. Dessert was "hunny pudding" which seemed to be the usual smooth rice-based pudding with ground pistachios and orange blossom water flavoring--what's not to like there? Can't comment too much on the service because it was a buffet but it was friendly including table visit from chef/owner. Can't believe I've never been there before. Definitely will put this on my when-in-Tempe list. More interesting than Pita Jungle.
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