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| - Average food with average prices. Three stars truly means that this is not a place worth visiting unless you need some kind of food while you're in the immediate area. Take note of the MANY restaurants nearby that you could opt for instead.
I came here for lunch with my sister who assured me that this place has better Middle Eastern food than the other shawarma joint nearby.
She ordered a chicken shawarma sandwich wrap and I ordered the vegetarian platter, which the man behind the counter enthusiastically vouched for. The man who made our food asked my sister two times if she wanted hot sauce on her sandwich, although she had told him thrice already that she did not. That was pretty weird and annoying.
When our food arrived, the platter looked quite appetizing. Key word: looked. My sister enjoyed her shawarma sandwich, but I wasn't as swooned by the my food. The platter had two giant heaps of hummus, two stuffed grape leaves, two massive balls of falafel, and some tabbouleh. The hummus was bland and was missing a much needed olive taste. The falafel was weird: one falafel ball was cold and soggy while the other was fresh and hot. Umm...yeah..not fun to eat. The grape leaves were probably the only decent and expected thing about the place. Considering the place prides itself on being an authentic Lebanese restaurant, it was quite shocking that the pita they served with the platter was from a processed, factory made package. Yuck!
Considering the platter was costlier than the other meaty items on their lunch menu, it should have been more filling and appetizing, but it was truly neither. The tabbouleh didn't taste fresh, either, which I forgot to mention earlier.
Also, while we were eating, two young women sat beside us. While they were eating, the man behind the counter offered them drinks on the house, and they insisted they didn't want any, and gave my sister and I an apologetic look. It was so weird that he practically begged them to take a free drink while he didn't do so much as smile at us. Weird? Creepy? Who knows.
The only pro about this place is that it's clean, the ingredients look fresh, and it claims to be halal. I didn't get a chance to inspect the halal thing further because I don't even eat meat anymore, so it doesn't concern me. But for those who do eat halal, you definitely should verify where they buy their meat.
To conclude: only go here if you're absolutely rid of all other options in the area, or really want a shawarma or something of the sort. Don't go for the hummus or anything of the vegetarian fare. Just don't.
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