My husband and I went out for date night and tried this place for the first time. We were not…read moredisappointed! The service was very quick and the server was prompt. They have bread and pesto for the table and the pesto was the BEST thing i've ever eaten. The bacon wrapped dates were amazing. I am not a fan of dates but these were quite yummy!! The bruschetta was good but I would not order them again, they're very plain. Not in a bad way, but you can get this combo anywhere. The scallops melted in my mouth and they were absolutely delicious. My husband's braised ribs were delicious as well, the mashed potatoes were smooth. We wish we saved room for dessert! Highly recommend for your next date night! We made reservations the morning before and they had availability. I would recommend reservations to secure a table since this place is very popular over the weekend.

Came here for lunch without reservations on a Thursday and it was hopping! Luckily, got a seat at…read morethe bar. Very cool place with good food, vibes and friendly service. We got the meatballs, butternut squash flatbread and a very delish salad. Next time will try to get a reservation!

There's a reason De Babel is consistently rated 5 stars - based on my first visit, it is 100%…read moreworthy of all the stars! The portions are incredibly generous. The staff is great. The food is amazing. What more could you ask?! I ordered the gyro with roasted vegetables as a combo with fries, and had to take pictures just to capture how much food came out. Everything was delicious! Tzatziki sauce is homemade, which I preferred on the side. What really made the experience stand out was the staff. The wait team was genuinely friendly and welcoming from start to finish, which made the whole meal even better. Bonus points for fountain drinks, too! I was very tempted by the swirl ice cream and homemade cookies for dessert, but I was too full this time. It just gives me another reason to come back! Thank you, De Babel!

Such a clean store, we saw workers walking around fix up the lobby every 5 minutes. Cashiers could…read moretell we were first timers right away and offered to help us with the menu. We ended up getting the chicken shawarma sandwich and the gyro sandwich. We also got a side of fries, WHICH WERE MASSIVE!!! The gyro came with a tzatziki, while the chicken shawarma came with a garlic sauce. The chicken was loadedddd with dark meat, could've used more of the pickled veggies tho. Gyro was perfect, good balance between meat, pita, sauce, and pickled veg. If we came back we would definitely get a combo instead of separate sandwich and fries, you definitely get better value that way. I want to try their plates next, I saw some people eating the chopped salad and it looked so refreshing and delicious on their bowls! Casual place where we still felt looked after by staff! 100% recommend!

Alyssa and leslie at the bar were fantastic. They guided me through my cocktail experience with…read moreexpert knowledge, it was amazing. Manager Roman came to check on my table throughout the meal and was a blessing to add to the conversation. A great place for cocktails or food.

I checked out thea for my birthday dinner on a Sunday. Located on the rooftop of the Global…read moreAmbassador Hotel, this Mediterranean restaurant was quite the experience. Parking is valet only, but since I'm not about that life, I found some parking on the street in a residential neighborhood five minutes away on foot. Ambiance (5/5): Definitely one of the areas in which thea shines. While they have both an indoor and outdoor area, I highly recommend sitting outside on the rooftop. If you do, you'll experience scenic views of the mountains in the background. If you can catch a sunset here, even better. Outside of the views, the restaurant has the fresh decor you would expect from a Mediterranean/Greek restaurant. There's also an outdoor area, and an indoor bar area, if you're just looking for drinks. Service (5/5): Attentive, friendly, and efficient service. Exactly what I was hoping for, especially on my birthday. They were kind enough to hook me up with a dessert for my special day. Much appreciated! Drinks (4.5/5): A full bar with a nice wine list and an interesting cocktail menu. I split a bottle of wine with my parents, but also started off with a refreshing cocktail. Food (5/5): I started off with the flaming saganaki because how can you say no to cheese flambeed table side. Dinner with a little entertainment. If you've never had saganaki cheese, it's a delicious Greek cheese. Pair it with some pita bread and you have yourself a delicious app. From there, I had the grilled skirt steak with crushed potatoes. Naturally, I ordered my steak medium rare. The skirt steak was sliced and cooked perfectly. The potatoes were well seasoned and paired nicely with the steak. All in all, a perfect meal. My parents similarly had great things to say about their selections. Thea isn't cheap. And it does have the see and be seen type of vibe which I'm not a big fan of. Yet, despite all of that, it's an excellent dining experience all-around. While it's more of a special occasion type of spot in my book, I'm definitely looking forward to stopping by again sometime!

Persian Room Fine Dining Review…read more After a challenging few days, I decided to treat myself to a meal at the Persian Room, a restaurant that had been on my mind. I arrived around 3:00 PM, just after the lunch rush, so the place was relatively quiet. Upon entering, I was greeted warmly by the server, who kindly escorted me to my table. I opted for a chicken dish accompanied by a skewer of grilled onions, bell peppers, and tomatoes. When my food arrived, my hunger was palpable. The chicken was delightful, but I found myself particularly enamored with the grilled vegetables, which were bursting with flavor. Overall, my experience was fantastic, and I look forward to returning for another delicious meal.

Our server Tony was fantastic! We started with breas, onions and greens. Loved that those are…read morecomplimentary. We then enjoyed Torshi and lunch Ghormeh Sabzi with Shirazi salad and Nadero kebab combo platter! All delicious! Best service I've had there yet! And loved my carbonated yogurt soda with a side of lemon juice!

Surprised I haven't left a review yet…read more I love gyro and Middle Eastern food! Green corner has been a favorite for a while now. Big fan of the kibbeh and the beef al sham wraps. The Greek fries are money!! This place is consistent in not just the food, but the service. Everyone is so nice. They are pumped with customers all the time and they keep the place clean and running like a well oiled machine. I've tried over half the menu and everything is good no complaints at all. I'll continue to come here and support green corner. Great job everyone!

What led us to Green Corner back in the dark times of early 2020 when most didnt want to enter and…read moreeat in a restaurant.. was the level of cleanliness and care they took to ensure customers felt comfortable eating during that time frame. But sadly for us, we didn't live anywhere near their original location. So imagine our joy when this location opened a few years later. (And more locations are soon to be open) Staff: every visit to Green Corner and the interactions with staff has been impressive. They are so friendly, talkative, happy and will take you through the menu if it's your first time or repeated trip and want to try something new. I can only image they treat their employees well for everyone to be this pleasant. Food: always amazing, always correct when omitting ingredients for allergies. Massive selection of usual Mediterranean dishes and some great great unique choices. Their lamb is incredible, chops are fantastic but a slightly longer wait to cook; definitely worth the wait. Choices are as massive as their servings. And you can get all the protein choices in plates, bowls, salads or on the side for when you are really hungry. Catering: Nearly every visit we see the staff gathering large container of food for Catering. This never seems to slow down service. Last visit we saw a member of staff counting the food inside the plastic domes to ensure the Catering order was complete. Order food, get a number stand and sit back and wait (not long) for delivery to your table. I'll add here that each time the food is delivered, its with a smile and well wishes. The food and portions are fantastic, they turn hummus into an artwork, they really take pride in their food. My favorite us the Green Corner Mixed grill, I was asked how I would like the meat cooked. Never been asked that before, so I said how do you like it...medium which was extremely tasty... as I am one of those who usually like meat well done. Can't finish, just walk over and pick up togo boxes and bags. One thing that always makes me feel that Green Corner is truly good and authentic food is seeing a number of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean families enjoying their food too. Always a good sign that you have selected a good restaurant. They have a nice outdoor patio and very clean interior. If anyone from the company is reading.. please look at North Phoenix by the TSMC chip plant as your next location. This area is growing immensely and sparse on restaurants

The space itself is gorgeous and transports you outside of the standard Scottsdale bubble. The…read morestaff is kind and quick to assist as needed. I highly suggest making a reservation regardless of group size to ensure seating, and limit your wait time to be seated. The food itself has a Mediterranean touch of flavors, however the options are a tad limited.

Made reservations for 7, weeks before. They seated us at a table for 6 with no additional chairs…read morebrought. They just loaded up a bunch of conference tables and chairs outside. No misters on a 100+ day. Zero ambiance. Zero care. Tell me you're maximizing seating with no regard for patrons .... Without telling me. As we were walking out, the smell of fish was very strong and not in a good way. Left without eating. All that and 10 minutes of valet was $20.

I remembered I got their food for the first time during the pandemic. The food was great but the…read morewait at that time was not short. This time I placed an online order and was able to just pick them up right when they are ready. Chicken shawarma is very tasty. I like the pickles that came with it. Loaded gyro fries is so delicious. I could not stop enjoying them. Babaganoush and hummus are also delicious.

Stopped by for lunch without reading reviews or really knowing what to expect. I had planned on…read moreworking while I was there and I quickly realized that might not be feasible. There is a small parking lot which is shared with the business next door. The establishment is small and seems to be set up more for pickup orders. There was a table with a bench along the left wall and a few chairs against the right wall. Ordering was easy for me but another lady who came in seemed to have difficulty placing her order. The employee taking her order was very helpful to her. Since it didn't seem to be set up for dine in I asked the lady at the counter if I couldn't sit and the table and work there. She smiled and said, of course! There was a steady steam of lunch time customers with to go orders and delivery app pickups while I was there. I ordered a gyro pita wrap. It came out in a reasonable amount of time. The gyro meat was flavorful and the veggies in the wrap were fresh. Overall great flavor for a quick lunch. There is a service charge if 3.5% for paying with a card that I wasn't made aware of until I saw it on pop up on the screen when I went to pay.

My wife and I had excellent meals and a great experience at our first-time visit. Portions were…read moreplentiful and quality was top-notch! I've found it difficult to locate places that serve lemon-rice soup, but Saba's does, and it was delicious! Service was friendly and efficient, and as Christians we were pleased to see that this is obviously a Christian-owned and Christian-run establishment. We will definitely be back!

Everything about this place is phenomenal...The food, rhe spices, the environment and wait staff…read moreare all top notch. We Had the lemon shrimp and Falafel plates plus the hummus and baba ghanoush and tourism salad are as authentic as you can get AJ was our server and was super personable and kind. The service is exemplary and i LOVE. That this place is close to my dad's house, every time I come into town I try to eat here because of that good. THANK YOU

Every was great! Outstanding meal served by terrific waitpersons and it was a beautiful evening…read moreenjoyed on the patio.

There is a small note at the bottom of Virtù Honest Craft's dinner menu saying that, with 48 hours'…read morenotice and a minimum of six people, the kitchen will prepare a whole suckling pig dinner. That tiny note is one of the great understatements in Scottsdale dining. What it really means is: bring people you like, clear your calendar, abandon moderation, and prepare for a full-scale feast. Eight of us booked it. At $200 per person before alcohol, and with a wine list good enough to encourage thoroughly defensible excess, this is not a casual dinner. But the first board hit the table and any concern about value disappeared. The charcuterie spread looked less like an appetizer and more like the catering plan for a small celebration: ribbons of prosciutto, mortadella, salami, sweet and spicy sausages, imported buffalo mozzarella, piles of cheeses, fruit, nuts, grilled peppers glossed with olive oil, toasted bread, and a large bowl full of premium Italian cheese made from the milk of Mediterranean water buffaloes - true "bufala." We barely made a dent in it. The single best bite I had all night may have been the simplest: bread, buffala, those peppers, and a generous fold of prosciutto. Salty, creamy, sweet, smoky, rich. One of those bites that shuts down conversation for a moment. Then came the pasta course: huge paccheri, almost obscenely generous, cooked exactly right and coated in a deep, meaty sauce that tasted as though it had been simmering all day for this exact purpose. There were grilled sausages too, plus a warm, fiery n'duja condiment that made an already indecent meal even more indecent. And then there was the arugula salad - simple, sharp, properly dressed, shaved with parmigiano, somehow good enough that later, when we went around the table naming favorite bites of the night, more than one person picked the salad. That tells you something important: this was not just abundance. This was abundance with standards. Then the pig arrived. Whole. Burnished. Beautiful. The skin was the kind of thing people spend years chasing and almost never find: not merely crisp, but shatteringly, absurdly crisp - paper-thin, glassy, almost like caramelized lacquer. Underneath was luscious, fatty, slow-roasted pork that managed to be rich without losing its structure. Put a piece of that skin on top of a little meat and rendered fat and the effect is almost unfair: the greatest pork imaginable riding on the greatest cracker ever made. The potatoes alongside were outrageous - roasted to that perfect point where the edges are savage and the interiors go soft, clearly acquainted with pork fat and every blessing it can bestow. The greens held their own. Nothing on the platter felt like an obligation. Everything deserved to be there. By then the table was already wrecked in the happiest possible way, and yet dessert still came out in what felt like a parade: chocolate - the sticky toffee kind, butterscotch budino, gelati, and more sweets than eight people had any business facing after everything that preceded them. It was excessive, theatrical, and completely in keeping with the meal. The kitchen had chosen its thesis early - pleasure without apology - and saw it through to the end. What made this dinner memorable was not just the scale, though the scale was frankly ridiculous. We all left with full bags of leftovers, each one loaded with containers from different courses, and it still felt as though the meal could have fed another full table. Plenty of restaurants can overwhelm you with quantity. Very few can do it while making each component feel like the best version of itself. The mozzarella. The peppers. The pasta. The salad. The pig skin. The potatoes. The luxurious pudding. Nothing felt like filler. Nothing felt mailed in. This meal felt like Thanksgiving, Easter, a wedding dinner, and a fiftieth anniversary feast all rolled into one, then tightened up by a kitchen that knows exactly what it is doing. It was glorious, yes, but more importantly it was precise. If you have six to eight people who genuinely love to eat, book the whole suckling pig dinner at Virtù Honest Craft. It is one of the great shared feasts I have ever had anywhere. It's my new death penalty meal.

If you're looking for the best hookah in town, this is the place! The hookah is absolutely amazing…read moreand easily the best you'll find in the area. The music creates such a great vibe, the drinks are always on point, and the atmosphere is perfect for a fun night out... ohh and the food amazing (yummy fries you have to try it!!) Located right in the heart of Old Town Scottsdale, it's the perfect spot to relax and enjoy the night. What really makes this place special is the warm and welcoming service from the staff and the owner--they truly make everyone feel like family. Highly recommend if you want great hookah, good music, great drinks, and an unforgettable vibe!

i-MAD REVIEW ***HALLOWEEN EDITION***…read more Came here third spot on our Halloween Bar Crawl. Another very chill vibe and all the staff were accommodating and super relaxed which I liked. We did not partake in Hookah, but did have a couple of shots. Definitely wasn't giving club vibe, but was nice to sit around a table and yap with friends. A bit cramped but great deco and overall enjoyed! Cannot speak to drink prices as we had our Bar Crawl deal.