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| - Came here this past Friday on a little dinner date and found this place to be a super cute BYOW restaurant!
Service is warm beyond words, and the menu is kept simple: only one option available which is the Table D'hôte consisting of baba ghanoush, hummus, lentil soup, and a mixed plate of chicken with olives, meatballs with dates and okra, and a vegetarian bean medeley (all over a generous bed of couscous). You then end with a piece of cake and mint tea all for $25!
Ladies beware, seating is on cushions close to the ground and the tables are not tall enough for your legs to fit underneath so maybe forego the little skirts and dresses (I looked AWESOME sitting there with my legs a meter apart and my scarf filling in the gap created by that and the fact that I was wearing a dress. Soooo not a classy look but there was no other way to be comfortable). Because of this uncomfortable seating arrangement, I am docking a star. Had the cushions been directly on the floor, the seating may have been more comfortable/versatile but the way it's set up is really uncomfortable. Anyway, I digress...
So the food came and we were pretty happy with everything:
Baba ghanoush: I don't like eggplant so this wasn't for me but hubby thought it was great
Hummus: interesting - not your typical Lebanese hummus but good nonetheless
Main plate: chicken was our favorite. I wasn't crazy about the meatballs because they were wayyyyyy too sweet and the vegetable medeley was good
Dessert: you're given a little square of a hard and dry almond cake. It was terrible and so a star was docked here.
All in all, great experience. Would we come back? Probably not but only because it didn't wow us enough! Definitely a cute little date spot though so great job on the ambiance.
Oh, one last thing, there is NOTHING Egyptian about anything on the menu here so classifying it as Egyptian is pretty misleading. Otherwise, go check La Khaima out - it won't disappoint.
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