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| - My family has been going to Armenian Kitchen for probably 15 years -- since I was a kid and before I even lived in the city, but whenever we visited relatives down here, we'd often meet at A.K.
Service:
We've never once felt unwelcome. The service has been fantastic every time. The various wait staff is always courteous, always professional, and always casual enough where we feel comfortable. Customer service can make or break an experience, and here it's great.
Appetizers:
The falafel is delicious. It's well prepared and never overdone. Their kubbeh is also great -- its basically a minced meat ball with various spices, in a bulgur shell. They also have plates of hummus and baba ghannouj that are flavourful and pair well with fresh pita. We recently tried their more Canadian appetizers like their "spicy garlic fries" and were only mildly impressed -- it's basically fries with garlic paste, tossed in Frank's Hot Sauce. The sauce and paste just makes the fries soggy, and the flavour is just like covering fries in Frank's..... stick with the middle eastern appetizers!
Main courses:
Wraps....
If you have a smaller appetite, their wraps are great. My mom usually gets just a wrap as she's a small eater. The chicken and beef shawarma wraps are both good on their own, although most of the time, anyone who gets a wrap goes "mixed" which is both meats -- but PLEASE remember to specify what you don't want in it, or else it will have everything, including tahina, hot sauce, onions, etc -- and they generally don't ask you. They just assume you want it all, unless you say.
I recently tried the sujok wrap (having had sujok at several other places) and was quite impressed. Not just is it a lot cheaper than the other wraps, but I found it equally satisfying both in terms of taste and quantity. Sujok is a middle eastern spicy sausage (sometimes part of breakfast) that is very salty. It's also plenty delicious.
Dinners...
If you have a larger appetite, their full dinners are DELICIOUS. Everyone else in my family usually gets a dinner, and it's enough to fill a very hungry person, or as 2 meals for most people. Again we always get "mixed" shawarma dinners which will come with plenty of beef and chicken, which is tender and spiced just right. The salad is tasty, the rice is great, and the portion is plenty filling. The large amount of garlic paste and hummus on your plate is also worth noting! YUM!!
SAUCE!
Now for the best part: remember to ask for bottles of tahina (pronounced tahini in north america), and also hot sauce if you like that. It's not the traditional "thick" tahina you may get some places (it's more of a watered-down liquid, in a squeeze bottle) but it's still very tasty and in unlimited supply -- a group of 6 of us go through SEVERAL bottles of it when we're there, putting it on everything -- the appetizers, the meat, the rice, everything. We often ask for extra bottles so that no one has to wait. It enhances the taste tremendously, and enhances our entire experience.
They will give you tons of fresh pita with every course -- just keep asking for more if you run out. Not just do you get the experience of a plate of food, but you can have fun with it. Put some meat in your pita, throw some garlic/hummus in there, some rice if you want, then cover it all in sauce: make your OWN wraps!
From our experience, there's always plenty of seating unless it's a holiday of some sort. In those cases (or if you're a large party), make a reservation. Otherwise, we've just walked in.
Overall, we love this place and will continue to go back. The price is decent I guess -- $12.99 per dinner and about $5 for each appetizer. With drinks / tax / tip, expect it to be about $20 per person.
Whether you eat there or take it to go, you'll be satisfied. We just prefer to eat in because of the unlimited tahina!
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