Love the market. Authentic taziki. Reasonable prices.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Hummus
Jay Crabill
If I could go -1 on this rating I would.
First off, there is no buffet anymore. They use that area for storage for their store now. This was the entire reason I went in the first place, so I was bummed out the gate.
I ordered Lamb kabobs with rice and a salad. After I got my order in I headed to the bathroom, and omg....disgusting. it has been many moons since they cleaned it. There was pee all over the floor and it smelled rancid.
While we waited for our lunch, I did a tour of their store. I started to notice the ceiling tiles were destroyed, missing, or had mold on them. I saw they had Mango aloe water and was about to get some, until I noticed they had expired 2 months ago.
Get back to our table and my salad was there. It looked like the lettuce was also many moons old, took 2 bites and had enough, it was putrid.
At this point I was ready to leave but was hoping the entree would be the saving Grace. It was not. The rice was cold and felt like it just got out of the freezer. More important....it was not a kabob at all...just a plate of meat and random vegetables. The meat felt over cooked and as if it also had just gotten out of the freezer. The lamb didn't taste terrible, but was hard to chew.
-1/5...will never go back and highly recommend you DO NOT try it. What a disappointment.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
K M
Food ok. I got the combo meal without rice and I liked the gyro meat and ground beef. Some meat might have been sheep, but it was very tough to cut. The chicken was dry. Overall, a thinner Tzaki sauce could have benefitted the dish. My husband liked his lamb chops but said it wasn't a lot and the rice was bland. I tasted his lentil soup and it was very good. Please clean your bathrooms! They are filthy. I wouldn't have eaten there if I'd seen those before eating.
nice authentic middle eastern restaurant and grocery. we enjoyed the falafel and hummus. and also especially the pita
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Hummus
Aisha Mccrady
one of the best arabic restaurants I've ever been to. Food is unbelievably delicious. We ordered, Lamb kebab, kafta kebab and chicken tikka....boy it was yummy
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Dakota Coker
Went for lunch it wasn't open 5 minutes later someone opened the door go later than when they open for lunch..
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Dee Brown
Absolutely amazing food, great variety and customer service for our large group was amazing!
Food: 5
Service: 5
Linda Scherbring
The food was above and beyond my expectations! The most authentic Mediterranean cuisine I have had in the United States! Highly recommend enjoying the hookah lounge to relax after your meal. The service and selection was also above par!
I ordered 2 servings of tabooleh. Worst I have ever had. The minute I opened the dish I could smell the old extra virgin olive and it tasted worse than it smelled. Contacted the restaurant and they more or less told me I didn't know good from bad oil. I told him I get my extra virgin olive oil from a friend who's grandfather manufactures and sells directly from Greece. Was a waste of $20.... don't go there if you want fresh tasty food
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
amir marmarchi
Their food is badly old and stale, I got the lamb shank and the meat was so dry and tasteless, no salt, no pepper, no juice, no meat falling off the bone, just one hard piece of old meat heated. The rice was the worst rice I have ever had. I am a good cook myself, so I can tell with utmost certainty that their rice was at least 3 days old, and most likely 4-5 days old out of freezer, the texture of that rice had turned to almost like plastic texture. I had stomach pain for the rest of the day from consuming such a low quality food. Even if kept in the fridge, cooked rice grows dangerous bacteria/mold after 24 hours, and shame on me because I knew that, but at the time because I was so hungry and because the owner appeared as a friendly guy I didn't want to refuse or criticize his food, so I did my best and ate like 60% of it. I also ordered their eggplant dish, to which I give 2 out of 5. At the end they kept asking me how was everything good, and at first I said nothing, but when they kept excessively asking that question by different people, (most likely to guilt trap you to leave a good tip), I overcame my unnecessary reservation and told him "well, your rice was not fresh".
At that time the owner switched from acting overly friendly to a not very nice attitude and said something like this, " you should have said something earlier, not now, and it looks like you actually enjoyed your food because you ate it all", whereas the truth is despite being raised in a family that one should finish his food (which I often do), I had left half of my rice. At that point I felt like not only he is not capable of taking responsibility for bad food, but he is accusing me of lying, so I told him "are you sure, my plate must still be there, do you want to check it again to see I didn't finish it?" Bottom line, I think it was the fault of me and my nature to always be appreciative of any food that anyone put in front of me. I learned a valuable lesson that the next time anyone puts any horrible food like this in front of me, respect myself and just refuse it and leave the restaurant right away, because you can't trust them with anything else either. When I shared this experience with few locals, they all confirmed that this restaurant is well known/notorious for bad food. What a shame to have places like this, especially because I love middle eastern food. A bad middle eastern restaurant in a town is a barrier for entry for a good one, because a potential good restaurateur looks at the low demand of the bad one and mistakenly concludes that there is no demand for his entry, which makes existence of such places a "double shame"!
This restaurant is replica of Peking buffet restaurant across the street. Lots of options in buffet. But very limited dishes you can eat. Because food is tasteless and not fresh.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Waleed Hassan
The place is amazing! Food is very delicious and authentic! Staff is very nice and friendly! I will come here again and again!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
S Hassan
Low quality food
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 5
M Lang
This is a great Mediterranean restaurant & grocery combined! The service was quick & friendly. Food was great! We ordered the baba ganoush appetizer, falafel sandwich, and chicken tekka which can with salad & the lentil soup. All was delicious, portions were generous, and staff was attentive. They carry lots of cooking supplies & specialized ingredients in the grocery section as well. Would stop again!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Vicky K
My fiancé and I are always open to trying different dishes from other cultures. Our waiter was welcoming and sweet. They even had an interesting set up of snacks and other grocery items.
Love the market. Authentic taziki. Reasonable prices.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Hummus
If I could go -1 on this rating I would.
First off, there is no buffet anymore. They use that area for storage for their store now. This was the entire reason I went in the first place, so I was bummed out the gate.
I ordered Lamb kabobs with rice and a salad. After I got my order in I headed to the bathroom, and omg....disgusting. it has been many moons since they cleaned it. There was pee all over the floor and it smelled rancid.
While we waited for our lunch, I did a tour of their store. I started to notice the ceiling tiles were destroyed, missing, or had mold on them. I saw they had Mango aloe water and was about to get some, until I noticed they had expired 2 months ago.
Get back to our table and my salad was there. It looked like the lettuce was also many moons old, took 2 bites and had enough, it was putrid.
At this point I was ready to leave but was hoping the entree would be the saving Grace. It was not. The rice was cold and felt like it just got out of the freezer. More important....it was not a kabob at all...just a plate of meat and random vegetables. The meat felt over cooked and as if it also had just gotten out of the freezer. The lamb didn't taste terrible, but was hard to chew.
-1/5...will never go back and highly recommend you DO NOT try it. What a disappointment.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Food ok. I got the combo meal without rice and I liked the gyro meat and ground beef. Some meat might have been sheep, but it was very tough to cut. The chicken was dry. Overall, a thinner Tzaki sauce could have benefitted the dish. My husband liked his lamb chops but said it wasn't a lot and the rice was bland. I tasted his lentil soup and it was very good. Please clean your bathrooms! They are filthy. I wouldn't have eaten there if I'd seen those before eating.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 4
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Gyro Meat, Chicken Shawarma, Lamb Shank
nice authentic middle eastern restaurant and grocery. we enjoyed the falafel and hummus. and also especially the pita
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Hummus
one of the best arabic restaurants I've ever been to. Food is unbelievably delicious. We ordered, Lamb kebab, kafta kebab and chicken tikka....boy it was yummy
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Went for lunch it wasn't open 5 minutes later someone opened the door go later than when they open for lunch..
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Absolutely amazing food, great variety and customer service for our large group was amazing!
Food: 5
Service: 5
The food was above and beyond my expectations! The most authentic Mediterranean cuisine I have had in the United States! Highly recommend enjoying the hookah lounge to relax after your meal. The service and selection was also above par!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Baklava, Meat Combo, Lamb Shank, Chicken Korma
I ordered 2 servings of tabooleh. Worst I have ever had. The minute I opened the dish I could smell the old extra virgin olive and it tasted worse than it smelled. Contacted the restaurant and they more or less told me I didn't know good from bad oil. I told him I get my extra virgin olive oil from a friend who's grandfather manufactures and sells directly from Greece. Was a waste of $20.... don't go there if you want fresh tasty food
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Their food is badly old and stale, I got the lamb shank and the meat was so dry and tasteless, no salt, no pepper, no juice, no meat falling off the bone, just one hard piece of old meat heated.
The rice was the worst rice I have ever had. I am a good cook myself, so I can tell with utmost certainty that their rice was at least 3 days old, and most likely 4-5 days old out of freezer, the texture of that rice had turned to almost like plastic texture.
I had stomach pain for the rest of the day from consuming such a low quality food.
Even if kept in the fridge, cooked rice grows dangerous bacteria/mold after 24 hours, and shame on me because I knew that, but at the time because I was so hungry and because the owner appeared as a friendly guy I didn't want to refuse or criticize his food, so I did my best and ate like 60% of it.
I also ordered their eggplant dish, to which I give 2 out of 5.
At the end they kept asking me how was everything good, and at first I said nothing, but when they kept excessively asking that question by different people, (most likely to guilt trap you to leave a good tip), I overcame my unnecessary reservation and told him "well, your rice was not fresh".
At that time the owner switched from acting overly friendly to a not very nice attitude and said something like this, " you should have said something earlier, not now, and it looks like you actually enjoyed your food because you ate it all", whereas the truth is despite being raised in a family that one should finish his food (which I often do), I had left half of my rice.
At that point I felt like not only he is not capable of taking responsibility for bad food, but he is accusing me of lying, so I told him "are you sure, my plate must still be there, do you want to check it again to see I didn't finish it?"
Bottom line, I think it was the fault of me and my nature to always be appreciative of any food that anyone put in front of me.
I learned a valuable lesson that the next time anyone puts any horrible food like this in front of me, respect myself and just refuse it and leave the restaurant right away, because you can't trust them with anything else either.
When I shared this experience with few locals, they all confirmed that this restaurant is well known/notorious for bad food.
What a shame to have places like this, especially because I love middle eastern food.
A bad middle eastern restaurant in a town is a barrier for entry for a good one, because a potential good restaurateur looks at the low demand of the bad one and mistakenly concludes that there is no demand for his entry, which makes existence of such places a "double shame"!
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 1
Restaurantji Recommends
This restaurant is replica of Peking buffet restaurant across the street. Lots of options in buffet. But very limited dishes you can eat. Because food is tasteless and not fresh.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
The place is amazing! Food is very delicious and authentic! Staff is very nice and friendly! I will come here again and again!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Low quality food
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 5
This is a great Mediterranean restaurant & grocery combined! The service was quick & friendly. Food was great! We ordered the baba ganoush appetizer, falafel sandwich, and chicken tekka which can with salad & the lentil soup. All was delicious, portions were generous, and staff was attentive. They carry lots of cooking supplies & specialized ingredients in the grocery section as well. Would stop again!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
My fiancé and I are always open to trying different dishes from other cultures. Our waiter was welcoming and sweet. They even had an interesting set up of snacks and other grocery items.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 4
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