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| - Poor quality food. Definitely not fresh. Some items super hard and dried out (READ: OLD). I have heard about this place numerous times for the belly dancing and salsa, but never heard about the food...now I know why. We went here during the week for dinner. The rice was super greasy, dried out, and tasted like it was reheated in the microwave, just as another poster commented. And to think that the waitress said, "we have really good rice here!." We got one kibbe with our meal-not even 2 to share, and so ordered a 2nd, and it lacked the yogurt that it is typically served with. They didn't even have plain yogurt-how is that possible at a lebanese or arabic restaurant???? The kefta was disgusting and tasted like chopped liver. We were really looking forward to a delicious piece of baklava for dessert- that just topped things off...The waitress said, "it's cold and hard-do you want me to heat it up?" She did heat it, but it was so dried out and bland that it was just a pile of dried broken nuts and pieces of phyllo dough when we tried to eat it. I can't say whether there really was any honey or butter in it! How old was it really? Needless to say, it was terrible. On top of it all, they added a gratuity for 2 people..not the standard "group gratuity" that some restaurants charge. The waitress even gave us a pathetic story about working in "another restaurant where her customer said that the tip was included and she said, c'mon please...it's not included...where's my tip?" Was this to trick us into leaving an additional tip as if we would not notice the included gratuity that was definitely on the receipt? I would highly discourage anyone from dining at this restaurant.
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