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| - I have to agree that it's better to order a bunch of the a la carte items than the platters. I had the vegetarian special here. It came exactly how the menu described it: rice with pine nuts, hummus and baba ghanooj. But I was still taken aback by the beige-ness of the plate--when I think "vegetarian," I think green. (I don't know. Am I crazy?) Maybe a tiny bit of salad on the plate? The plate is less expensive than the meat platters that come with salad--but I'd think that the meat, not lettuce, accounts for the price difference. But, to be fair, the menu description didn't promise a salad.
The baba ghanooj was the best thing on the vegetarian platter. The hummus and rice weren't bad, but next time I'll just order the baba ghanooj a la carte and some other small dishes. I prefer Aladdin's for its larger variety of vegetarian dishes, though.
The water glasses here are really, really small. I came here on a warm day and my friend and I were really thirsty, so we kept draining our glasses. Our waitress was pretty good about refilling them--but I couldn't help but think it'd be a lot easier on her if the place had bigger glasses. Less waste, more eco-friendly, maybe?
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