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| - Years ago, I was in Egypt and a man told me, "someone gave you bad eyes."
I figure he's talking about my glasses. I
nodded and explained, "yes, I got them from my Dad."
"No....BAD eyes."
"My glasses?"
"No. Someone made you sick."
I was tummy sick. Ohwait!
"Yes, some guy at the pyramids put the evil eye on me."
My host nodded in satisfaction.
If only, I'd eaten at Ibo's first, that would never have happened. During dinner, Mr Ibo gave me a little evil eye protection bracelet.
If I'd never found the front door, I'd been out of luck too. (We drove around a bit to figure it out and still figured it wrongly.)
My guest and I ordered the mezze platter, which had some delicious baba ganoush, some decent stuffed grape leaves, a wonderful eggplant salad, and some other tasty bits.
We had a mixed grill of deliciously seasoned chicken, lamb, and beef, with a lovely orange pilaf.
None of the food totally blew me away. All of it was very good. But the prices are spendy and the lunch prices are ridiculously spendy (meaning, not any different than dinner.)
The average entree is $20, the average appetizer is $9. The interior of the restaurant is bigger and probably fancier than what should be called for.
If this place were more reasonably priced, I'd have loved it. But at that price point, there are other options out there (you're not far off from places like Rosemary's) that offer a better value.
I want to see our city have more independent restaurants with offerings other than sushi, bar food, Italian, or Thai. I want to see innovative or ethnic restaurants thrives. But I'm not sure if Ibo's has the right mix to make it happen, even though I hope he does.
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