1. TERRIBLE FOOD: EXTREMELY SALTY on most of the items. We ordered the "Tour around the world" platter for 5. Honestly it looked quite interesting to start with. Nothing else goes well after the 1st look of it. - the spring rolls tasted a little weird. It had some sort of foul smelll, not too sure if it was the seasoning that we were not used to or the fillings have really gone bad. It tasted sour and foul. My son literally gagged at his first bite. - the lentil soup was uneatable. It was wayyyy too salty. - now comes the main dish. Interesting presentation, with different varieties of food, but in reality, there isn't much meat in it. 1. It comes with 3 different salty vegetarian stir fried vermicelli (3 different tastes, so they claimed that as 3 different countries. NOT TRUE! Because I'm from one of the countries they claimed & I know what the other 2 cuisines taste like also). Some rice in the middle. The rice was the only thing that wasn't salty bc it's just a plain biryani rice. 2. There were 5 pieces of dried finger tips size chicken breast, 1 spoonful of beef (maybe gyros?). A small bowl of Indian chicken. 1 piece of quarter chicken very dried, 1 piece of COMPLETELY BURNT & DRIED drumstick! They noticed that too so they gave us another quarter chicken, but was also burnt on the bottom. The top was also dried. 3. The sauce that came with the chicken was UNEATABLE! It was like scooping a handful of salt & pour it into your mouth. It was just AWEFUL! There were 5 of us & we had almost the whole platter leftover, bc everything was too salty & uneatable! We paid for it, so we took everything home. I watered down the lentil soup with extra lentil added to make it eatable. I added 1 whole pack of vermicelli & mixed the leftovers without adding anything at all to balance out the saltiness taste. The chicken was just not eatable the 2nd day. 2. Ambiance was ok. Very interesting. Colorful decorations & it gives you a family restaurant atmosphere. I was so happy to find a local family owned restaurant, but unfortunately, I will never go back for the food. 3. Cleanliness was TERRIBLE! the table was sticky! There were bamboo placemats on the table. We rolled them up & put them aside. The table was sticky, and there were crumbs of dried leftover rice. The tea pot, tea cups & a decoration plate on the table were stuck to the table. At first we thought they were glued to the table for decoration, bc we were not able to remove them. Then with a little force, I was able to lift up the plate & we laughed that it was stuck bc of stickiness & dirtiness on the table. Ewww! But we still look past all of those bc of the interesting food pictures & the good reviews on yelp (Don't understand how people give such high reviews in yelp) . OMG! The take out container. We asked for a soup take out container for the lentil soup. First of all, it took them a good 20 mins to get us the container. They brought out 2 foam containers. 1 with pink liquid on the inside edge of the container. A piece of dried rice in 1 of the lids. Looked obviously been rinsed off with dots of water on it still. The other one looked ok with just a few speckles of black dots (maybe just the burnt dust from the kitchen HOPEFULLY). The little box they put the bill in was HORRIBLE! STICKY & DUSTY! JUST A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE AFTER ALL! WE WILL NEVER GO BACK! Visit at your own risk with all the good reviews on yelp.
Robin B.
The first time I went, we were super impressed with the around the world platter. It was definitely too much food for our party of five and we had a lot of leftovers. The staff gave everyone hats and took a picture, which was fun. The second time I went back during restaurant week I was less impressed. We ordered the platter with a lamb shank and I'm not sure if they forgot it or if the small pile of Gyro meat was what we paid extra for. There was a lot of rice on the platter, not as much meat. Definitely worth going once!
John I.
Ok absolutely blown away by the home cooked amazing food here. It doesn't matter what you order it is all amazing. If you want to explore food genres that you are not familiar with this is your place. Or maybe you have traveled a lot and you know these cultural influences and flavors. This is a lovely sweet place to open your mind and your heart. Just go and be nice the food is worth it
Angela M.
Absolutely delicious! EVERYTHING was made from scratch and was so good. Service was great and friendly. We had the world tour and shawarma hummus. Korean hot tea and Mango Lassi. We will be back even tho we live 1.5 hours away.
Kimberly K.
Really fantastic! My whole family from 2 to 65 loved every bite. Truly incredible made from scratch .
David Hunt
Wonderful food and atmosphere. Thank you so much!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chicken Adobo
Dan Joyce
Really sad about valentines day experience. Booked to make sure we had a table. Obviously there were some staffing issues. Waited for an hour with a glass of water only. Order taken after 15mins but no sign of any food or even tea after an hour. At that point left. Kinda put a real damper on our valentines evening which is sad because last year it was fun. Really makes me think twice before returning. Hopefully this is just an aberration.
Service: 1
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I was traveling back to Columbus from Detroit when I started craved Indian food. Went to Google maps and typed in “Indian food). It directed me to this restaurant. When I arrive, it didn’t look like a traditional Indian food but then, as I started to read the menu after I sat down, the place seemed pretty interesting. The menu is limited to South Asian (Indian and Nepali), Southeast Asian (Vietnamese and Thai) food with a mix of Island Pacific (filipino). The concept seemed really interesting with such a collaboration of different Asian food all under one roof. Decided to change my mind on Indian food and chose chicken adobo, which comes from the wasn’t all that great in which I’ve had better chicken adobo, so I rank the food a 3/5. The service is 3/5 for me as the owner seemed to yell at her employees along with a argument, of price with a customer’s bill. For me the highlight of the place gets a 5/5 for originality. Recommendation for this place is a must but I’d say stay away from the chicken adobo as it just wasn’t as good as I’ve expected from other places.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Around the World Platter, Curry
Jacob Elrod
FantasticGet the around the world tour for 2, chicken. It will easily feed 3 to 4 people though. The lentil soup is great!The galabal and Vietnamese BBQ ??❤️I'll be back more.The fried banana foster is small. Don't think of sharing that, you'll need 1 for each person.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chicken Curry, Around the World Platter, Curry, Chicken Mandi
Tierney F.
Food is always delicious. However the service was not great this past visit. We ate our food and paid our bill but were still talking with our friends and mama came out of the kitchen and essentially told us it was time to go. I could understand this if there were customers waiting for a table but there weren't. It was very rude!! Not sure we'll be back to dine.
Lots of fun and good food. You need to try it. You can travel the world at Circle of Friends.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Fred S.
they have really good authentic Mediterranean, Middle Eastern food. I'd recommend the around the world.
Todd G.
Food is very uniquely flavorful and fresh. My go to place when I want something different than the usual Chinese food fare. African, Asian, Indian and Pacific Islanders food.
Jim Shrum
Had the chicken adobo and it was fantastic! Will come here again.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Chicken Adobo
M C
Absolutely the best dining experience we’ve had in a long time. Service was exceptional, the chef himself came out to bring us our food, followed by the owner to see how we liked it. We got the tour of the world, each dish was divine. So much food for just hubby and I, but that’s ok we have a whole other meal to enjoy.
1. TERRIBLE FOOD: EXTREMELY SALTY on most of the items. We ordered the "Tour around the world" platter for 5. Honestly it looked quite interesting to start with. Nothing else goes well after the 1st look of it. - the spring rolls tasted a little weird. It had some sort of foul smelll, not too sure if it was the seasoning that we were not used to or the fillings have really gone bad. It tasted sour and foul. My son literally gagged at his first bite. - the lentil soup was uneatable. It was wayyyy too salty. - now comes the main dish. Interesting presentation, with different varieties of food, but in reality, there isn't much meat in it. 1. It comes with 3 different salty vegetarian stir fried vermicelli (3 different tastes, so they claimed that as 3 different countries. NOT TRUE! Because I'm from one of the countries they claimed & I know what the other 2 cuisines taste like also). Some rice in the middle. The rice was the only thing that wasn't salty bc it's just a plain biryani rice. 2. There were 5 pieces of dried finger tips size chicken breast, 1 spoonful of beef (maybe gyros?). A small bowl of Indian chicken. 1 piece of quarter chicken very dried, 1 piece of COMPLETELY BURNT & DRIED drumstick! They noticed that too so they gave us another quarter chicken, but was also burnt on the bottom. The top was also dried. 3. The sauce that came with the chicken was UNEATABLE! It was like scooping a handful of salt & pour it into your mouth. It was just AWEFUL! There were 5 of us & we had almost the whole platter leftover, bc everything was too salty & uneatable! We paid for it, so we took everything home. I watered down the lentil soup with extra lentil added to make it eatable. I added 1 whole pack of vermicelli & mixed the leftovers without adding anything at all to balance out the saltiness taste. The chicken was just not eatable the 2nd day. 2. Ambiance was ok. Very interesting. Colorful decorations & it gives you a family restaurant atmosphere. I was so happy to find a local family owned restaurant, but unfortunately, I will never go back for the food. 3. Cleanliness was TERRIBLE! the table was sticky! There were bamboo placemats on the table. We rolled them up & put them aside. The table was sticky, and there were crumbs of dried leftover rice. The tea pot, tea cups & a decoration plate on the table were stuck to the table. At first we thought they were glued to the table for decoration, bc we were not able to remove them. Then with a little force, I was able to lift up the plate & we laughed that it was stuck bc of stickiness & dirtiness on the table. Ewww! But we still look past all of those bc of the interesting food pictures & the good reviews on yelp (Don't understand how people give such high reviews in yelp) . OMG! The take out container. We asked for a soup take out container for the lentil soup. First of all, it took them a good 20 mins to get us the container. They brought out 2 foam containers. 1 with pink liquid on the inside edge of the container. A piece of dried rice in 1 of the lids. Looked obviously been rinsed off with dots of water on it still. The other one looked ok with just a few speckles of black dots (maybe just the burnt dust from the kitchen HOPEFULLY). The little box they put the bill in was HORRIBLE! STICKY & DUSTY! JUST A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE AFTER ALL! WE WILL NEVER GO BACK! Visit at your own risk with all the good reviews on yelp.
The first time I went, we were super impressed with the around the world platter. It was definitely too much food for our party of five and we had a lot of leftovers. The staff gave everyone hats and took a picture, which was fun. The second time I went back during restaurant week I was less impressed. We ordered the platter with a lamb shank and I'm not sure if they forgot it or if the small pile of Gyro meat was what we paid extra for. There was a lot of rice on the platter, not as much meat. Definitely worth going once!
Ok absolutely blown away by the home cooked amazing food here. It doesn't matter what you order it is all amazing. If you want to explore food genres that you are not familiar with this is your place. Or maybe you have traveled a lot and you know these cultural influences and flavors. This is a lovely sweet place to open your mind and your heart. Just go and be nice the food is worth it
Absolutely delicious! EVERYTHING was made from scratch and was so good. Service was great and friendly. We had the world tour and shawarma hummus. Korean hot tea and Mango Lassi. We will be back even tho we live 1.5 hours away.
Really fantastic! My whole family from 2 to 65 loved every bite. Truly incredible made from scratch .
Wonderful food and atmosphere. Thank you so much!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chicken Adobo
Really sad about valentines day experience. Booked to make sure we had a table. Obviously there were some staffing issues. Waited for an hour with a glass of water only. Order taken after 15mins but no sign of any food or even tea after an hour. At that point left. Kinda put a real damper on our valentines evening which is sad because last year it was fun. Really makes me think twice before returning. Hopefully this is just an aberration.
Service: 1
I was traveling back to Columbus from Detroit when I started craved Indian food. Went to Google maps and typed in “Indian food). It directed me to this restaurant. When I arrive, it didn’t look like a traditional Indian food but then, as I started to read the menu after I sat down, the place seemed pretty interesting. The menu is limited to South Asian (Indian and Nepali), Southeast Asian (Vietnamese and Thai) food with a mix of Island Pacific (filipino). The concept seemed really interesting with such a collaboration of different Asian food all under one roof. Decided to change my mind on Indian food and chose chicken adobo, which comes from the wasn’t all that great in which I’ve had better chicken adobo, so I rank the food a 3/5. The service is 3/5 for me as the owner seemed to yell at her employees along with a argument, of price with a customer’s bill. For me the highlight of the place gets a 5/5 for originality. Recommendation for this place is a must but I’d say stay away from the chicken adobo as it just wasn’t as good as I’ve expected from other places.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Around the World Platter, Curry
FantasticGet the around the world tour for 2, chicken. It will easily feed 3 to 4 people though. The lentil soup is great!The galabal and Vietnamese BBQ ??❤️I'll be back more.The fried banana foster is small. Don't think of sharing that, you'll need 1 for each person.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chicken Curry, Around the World Platter, Curry, Chicken Mandi
Food is always delicious. However the service was not great this past visit. We ate our food and paid our bill but were still talking with our friends and mama came out of the kitchen and essentially told us it was time to go. I could understand this if there were customers waiting for a table but there weren't. It was very rude!! Not sure we'll be back to dine.
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Lots of fun and good food. You need to try it. You can travel the world at Circle of Friends.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
they have really good authentic Mediterranean, Middle Eastern food. I'd recommend the around the world.
Food is very uniquely flavorful and fresh. My go to place when I want something different than the usual Chinese food fare. African, Asian, Indian and Pacific Islanders food.
Had the chicken adobo and it was fantastic! Will come here again.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Chicken Adobo
Absolutely the best dining experience we’ve had in a long time. Service was exceptional, the chef himself came out to bring us our food, followed by the owner to see how we liked it. We got the tour of the world, each dish was divine. So much food for just hubby and I, but that’s ok we have a whole other meal to enjoy.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tour of the World