The food is excellent! Bread and hummus top notch! I usually bring my one friend from out here who has super high middle eastern standards and he even loves this place!!! I feel they are very professional and accommodating. Literally my only suggestion is that they expand the drink menu. Offer a few juices, lattes, or something other than mainly coke products. I would give 5 stars if they had more drink options! Still overall very pleased with service and food quality!!!!!Would highly recommend!!!
ahmad hussein
The front desk a Mexican lady doesn’t speak well English. And she has an attitude. The food wasn’t good because she cooked it as well. Like what’s wrong. This restaurant use to be good. But anymore they need change their staff. Especially someone who can speak
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Randy “Ran-D” Miller
Good stuff!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Naseem Akhtar
This place has so much change every time in term of food. I ordered for Chicken kabodhe today to go.It took very long to get the order.The food was not fresh .The meat was either over cooked or re-done. Very had to break it and eat it. I can say rice was okay. I noticed when the owner of the restaurant is there then the food is much better. Hope to get the food next time when she should be there. Today I just discard the food and waste my money.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 1
Domingo Ayala
Definitely worth the price !
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Maryam Haris
Food don't cooked good Chicken & other meat is uncooked
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 2
Brian M
Good middle eastern and Mediterranean food. It looks like a fast food restaurant without a nice atmosphere. Outside seating very poor.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 5
Service: 3
ben guthrie
Man, get any kabob they make. You can't miss. They're all great
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Chicken Kabab
Bailey
On a drive down to the beach for a short getaway, husband and I were looking for a spot to stop for dinner. I keep a running bookmark list of Birmingham restaurants and this one hit the all the requirements! We pulled off the highway into a small shopping center and found our way inside.
The menu is moderately sized with lots of middle eastern favorites. I fancy myself somewhat familiar with the cuisine but I'm certainly happy to learn and try more; there were a few dishes available I wasn't familiar with and I enjoyed doing a light Google to educate myself.
You order at the counter here. They seem to do a very brisk takeout business. There's seating inside and a few tables on the patio. We originally intended to eat inside but wound up moving because unfortunately something smelled really bad and wrong, almost like natural gas, inside the restaurant. I don't necessarily think this was their fault -- we noticed some workers doing something on the roof of the building, and all the food smelled as wonderful as you'd expect -- but we moved outside just to be safe.
I wanted a chicken koobideh kabob instead of a regular chicken kabob (the difference seems to be koobideh is ground chicken and spices rather than a hunk of chicken), but through a somewhat confusing conversation with the employee, managed to figure out they didn't have any. So I wound up with a regular chicken kabob; husband got beef koobideh kabob; and we split an order of hummus.
I say the conversation was confusing because neither employee spoke much English at all, such to the point that I had to use my even more-limited Spanish skills to realize they were saying "no tengo" to the chicken koobideh. They were very kind and apologetic and we eventually figured out how to move forward and help each other, but if you're looking for a detailed description of the food or anything, make sure you speak Spanish here, lol. I heard them very desperately trying to communicate what was spicy and what wasn't to a very confused group of folks as I left.
That being said, they got our order right and it came out in a very reasonably time, especially considering the sheer volume of carryout they were cranking out. Our kebabs came with extra complementary taboon bread, which went great with our leftover hummus.
The food is honestly worth 5 stars. It was delicious. The rice was fluffy and delicate, each kabob was bursting with flavor, the hummus was smooth and delicious, and the Shirazi salad (diced tomato and cucumber) was so refreshing! My chicken was incredible -- cooked absolutely perfectly, still juicy but with crispy parts, too.
Despite a few roadblocks in atmosphere and communication, we very much enjoyed our visit here and would happily return. Give them a try if you like or are interested in experiencing Persian food.
Sorry no more for me very dirty place ,,,
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
The food is excellent! Bread and hummus top notch! I usually bring my one friend from out here who has super high middle eastern standards and he even loves this place!!! I feel they are very professional and accommodating. Literally my only suggestion is that they expand the drink menu. Offer a few juices, lattes, or something other than mainly coke products. I would give 5 stars if they had more drink options! Still overall very pleased with service and food quality!!!!!Would highly recommend!!!
The front desk a Mexican lady doesn’t speak well English. And she has an attitude. The food wasn’t good because she cooked it as well. Like what’s wrong. This restaurant use to be good. But anymore they need change their staff. Especially someone who can speak
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Good stuff!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
This place has so much change every time in term of food.
I ordered for Chicken kabodhe today to go.It took very long to get the order.The food was not fresh .The meat was either over cooked or re-done. Very had to break it and eat it.
I can say rice was okay.
I noticed when the owner of the restaurant is there then the food is much better.
Hope to get the food next time when she should be there.
Today I just discard the food and waste my money.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 1
Definitely worth the price !
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Food don't cooked good
Chicken & other meat is uncooked
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 2
Good middle eastern and Mediterranean food. It looks like a fast food restaurant without a nice atmosphere. Outside seating very poor.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 5
Service: 3
Man, get any kabob they make. You can't miss. They're all great
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Chicken Kabab
On a drive down to the beach for a short getaway, husband and I were looking for a spot to stop for dinner. I keep a running bookmark list of Birmingham restaurants and this one hit the all the requirements! We pulled off the highway into a small shopping center and found our way inside.
The menu is moderately sized with lots of middle eastern favorites. I fancy myself somewhat familiar with the cuisine but I'm certainly happy to learn and try more; there were a few dishes available I wasn't familiar with and I enjoyed doing a light Google to educate myself.
You order at the counter here. They seem to do a very brisk takeout business. There's seating inside and a few tables on the patio. We originally intended to eat inside but wound up moving because unfortunately something smelled really bad and wrong, almost like natural gas, inside the restaurant. I don't necessarily think this was their fault -- we noticed some workers doing something on the roof of the building, and all the food smelled as wonderful as you'd expect -- but we moved outside just to be safe.
I wanted a chicken koobideh kabob instead of a regular chicken kabob (the difference seems to be koobideh is ground chicken and spices rather than a hunk of chicken), but through a somewhat confusing conversation with the employee, managed to figure out they didn't have any. So I wound up with a regular chicken kabob; husband got beef koobideh kabob; and we split an order of hummus.
I say the conversation was confusing because neither employee spoke much English at all, such to the point that I had to use my even more-limited Spanish skills to realize they were saying "no tengo" to the chicken koobideh. They were very kind and apologetic and we eventually figured out how to move forward and help each other, but if you're looking for a detailed description of the food or anything, make sure you speak Spanish here, lol. I heard them very desperately trying to communicate what was spicy and what wasn't to a very confused group of folks as I left.
That being said, they got our order right and it came out in a very reasonably time, especially considering the sheer volume of carryout they were cranking out. Our kebabs came with extra complementary taboon bread, which went great with our leftover hummus.
The food is honestly worth 5 stars. It was delicious. The rice was fluffy and delicate, each kabob was bursting with flavor, the hummus was smooth and delicious, and the Shirazi salad (diced tomato and cucumber) was so refreshing! My chicken was incredible -- cooked absolutely perfectly, still juicy but with crispy parts, too.
Despite a few roadblocks in atmosphere and communication, we very much enjoyed our visit here and would happily return. Give them a try if you like or are interested in experiencing Persian food.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Shirazi Salad, Hummus
Restaurantji Recommends
Best food in the town!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Shirazi Salad, Chicken Kabab
Food is fabulous but atmosphere is like a cave,play some music or something
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Filthy hostile terrible service.
So happy to have found some persian food in birmingham. Koobideh is wonderful, and the fresh baked bread is awesome!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Shirazi Salad, Chicken Kabab, Baklava, Persian Flatbread, Cucumber Yogurt Salad, Naan
One of the best restaurants in Alabama, but the food is a little bit dry, I don't know what exactly you need to add but it's dry.
It says it's open 10:00, I've been waiting in the door till 10:10 and no one is inside.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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