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| - I had breakfast once at ReBol, which was excellent. The Turkish coffee, the "yolked up" eggs -- so tasty! With "yum yum" sauce and kale slaw. So I had high expectations when I went back for lunch.
And I was disappointed (with the food -- although the service was very friendly). The No. 4 Signature Bol. Firstly, it wasn't served in a bowl, but rather in a disposable tray reminiscient of airport food. Disposable dishes for eating-in always irks me, because of all the extra garbage this creates. And rice bowls served in ceramic bowls can be so beautiful. Secondly. The "sticky rice" wasn't short grain rice -- it was basmati. This is baffling, because why put "sticky" on the menu if you're serving a long-grain rice?? Next up, the "harissa yogurt" tasted like it was made with a basis of sweetened yogurt (like vanilla yogurt), which is weird and kind of gross because I want my spicy yogurt sauce to be piquant and taste like spicy yogurt, not like vanilla. The papaya slaw was so awful, I couldn't eat it because it had been sitting around too long (veggie sides need to be made fresh, same-day. period.) and -- it was also too sweet! Cleveland culinary people: please stop putting sweeteners in my savory foods!! A papaya salad can be salty, spicy, and should be nice and sour and a bit bitter even -- but this one was just achingly sweet. Yuck.
The only good parts were the wonton chips, the scallions, and the spicy cashews (delicious)!
Overall though. I can't recommend this, which is so sad because, looking at the menu, this place has so much potential. Potential that is wasted with terrible execution.
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