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| - Ghazale and I go waaaaaaay back. Mostly binge eating after drunken nights when I was a LOT younger. Haven't been in many years, and went in with the wife for lunch since we were right there.
I think the folks running it are nice and well meaning, but the place is not faring well (maybe it never was, but beer goggles made it better?). Its very cramped inside, with three stools, but they don't want you to eat at them, they request you go to their juice bar next door, carrying your tray outside, to eat there. Both places are quite dirty, and there are some communication issues (they gave us the wrong order when a few people were at the cash at the same time; we tried to explain it wasn't what we ordered and they didn't understand, kept saying it was the same, when the none of the food items were the same as we ordered).
Food quality isn't bad, but it isn't great either. You choose from a number of meat, veg and salad dishes to make a platter for a fixed price. The stewed beans and the veg stew were good. The chicken was dry and flavorless, but the rice and lentils were full of flavor. Didn't eat any salads, but they looked fresh. They were very stingy on the sauces (Toum is my fave thing), only giving me a scant teaspoon despite me saying I would pay extra. The samosas were......teerrrrrible. At least that day. Dry, rubbery, flavorless, and felt like they had been sitting there a long time.
$35+ for 2 small containers of food, 2 drinks and 2 samosas. Not break the bank, but you can definitely get much much better quantities and quality at better prices elsewhere. Last thing I'll say is I'm dumbfounded that they don't swap locations. Move the juice bar to the food location, and food to the juice bar. Its much bigger and has way more potential. The food side is packed with 2-3 customers standing to order food inside, but the juice side had room for tables, and was completely empty.
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