Initially I was hesitant in trying this place, but hands down this is the best Middle Eastern restaurant in town! The waiter was prompt in seating us, taking our order, and delivering our food.
We ordered the King Mix and Lamb Kabsa, and they were absolutely delicious. The portion was filling, and most importantly the quality of the food was superb. I highly recommend the King Mix, as you get to sample all their meats selection. The Lamb Kabsa came with a juicy lamb shank, and aromatic kabsa spiced rice. We will definitely be returning, and trying other items on the menu.
Update:
I'm updating my review, after coming here a couple more times, since my previous 5 star review. In short, the food is still amazing, but their service sucks!
We walked in and saw nobody to seat us, the place looked pretty empty (one table had customer, and another leaving), so we decided to seat ourselves. It seems like every time we come here, there's a different server, and they aren't any better than the last. One of the server came by to our table and gave us menus, as we told her, we already know what we want. She said she'll come back to take our order, but never did. A couple walked in, and sat themselves. Another waitress came by their table, and gave them menus. While they were settling in and ready to order, their waitresses came back and took their order, while we're still sitting her waiting to order. We decided to go up to the front and order, instead of sitting here waiting for them, or we'd never get our food from past experience.
We decide to move to a bigger table closer to the front, being more visible to them. The customer that came after us, received their order before us. After some time of waiting, our appetizers started to come. We ordered the 4 appetizer sampler (Hummus, Flavored Eggplant, Baba Ghanoush, and Falafel), and only 3 of them came. Midway eating our appetizer, I ask her if the other appetizer (Falafel) was coming. One of the waitresses didn't know, and the other tells her they're out of Falafel. So they ran out of Falafel, and didn't bother telling us. Nor ask us to swap it with another appetizer from the list. Just completely ignored it and didn't give us any option (they charged us for 4 appetizer, but only gave us 3).
We see the chef bring out our King Mix and place it in front of both waitresses. Both waitresses were standing there flirting with some guy, while our food was getting cold right in front of them. We just sit there looking at our food on the counter, and contemplated if we should just get up and get the food ourselves, just like how we went up and ordered. After couple of minutes or so, I kid you not, one of the waitress got startled realizing our food was in front of her. It was like it fell from the sky inf front of her. She picks up our food, and continues to talk. Finally she gives us the food, cold as expected. No utensils to eat the food, no napkins, nor the usual garlic sauces that comes with the platter. The food didn't come with the usual grilled jalapenos that comes with it either. We ask for utensils (plates, forks, etc.), and sauces. After a couple of minutes, she brings us the utensils, and one sauce for both of us. We didn't enjoy our cold food. We overheard the waitress charging the other customer for an appetizer they ordered, but the customer never received!
It's unfortunate that this is our favorite restaurant in Salt Lake City, but the service sucks! After countless bad service, we decided to never dine in, and just order food for take out. Please improve your service by hiring servers that knows what they're doing!
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