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Golden Restaurant & Bakery

4.5 (251 reviews)
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Moderate noise
Outdoor seating
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Chicken Shawarma / Labani Wrap (Wahsh)
Marie Bernadette O.

Golden Restaurant Bakery is an Afghan restaurant + bakery in between Tempe and Scottsdale. Their menu has a wide range of authentic dishes and more. I ordered the chicken shawarma on flat bread and it was about a 10 min or so wait until my take out order was ready. It was delicious and filling! The restaurant is pretty spacious and next to the counter is a case of different pastries to try.

Cheese/Spinach Flatbread Cheese/Fresh Spinach Flatbread
KK H.

Excellent service and food and desserts are fresh and delicious! Very kind staff and if you can pay with cash as this small business is also being robbed with fees- merchant fees! Great place for a first date or a meet and greet!

Aldo with cheese and egg
Brianna T.

I was absolutely delighted to find this place so close to home! Can't believe I hadn't noticed it before. I was browsing Uber Eats for Mediterranean food when I found Golden and realized they had something that looks an awful lot like Khachapuri (here it's on the menu as Aldo). So I abandoned my plans of delivery food and promptly made my way in to eat. We got a solid sampling of the menu: - hummus/foul - Aldo with cheese and an over easy egg (I think their default may be scrambled but they do over easy if you ask!) - stuffed grape leaves - labani + black olive flatbread - kufta with tomato sauce - shawarma chicken wrap Lord above, my heart was so happy. The foul is exceptionally garlicky. Perfectly so. My partner said the hummus was his favorite thing we ordered, and he's a pretty discerning dude! The Aldo was excellent. The grape leaves came out hot, which surprised me, but again - solid! Flatbread? Stellar. Maybe even better the next day. The kufta didn't particularly excite me, but I wasn't the one who ordered it, and my partner was happy. My shawarma wrap? Oh boy, that garlic sauce. They even perfectly portion the innards so your pickles aren't all stuck to one side and the fries to the other. You can have pickles in almost every bite! We also got several desserts to take home. I haven't sampled them yet, but the hazelnut baklava in particular intrigues me. Casual ambiance. Options for booths or tables, inside or outside. I am so thrilled to have found Golden - they'll be a regular spot for me!

Asa P.

We found the Viral Dubai Chocolate at this Tempe restaurant. You'll find Dubai bars, Dubai bon bons and Dubai hearts. These hearts are the perfect sweet gift for valentines. Stop by this small mom and pop business and support local. We experienced friendly service, casual dine in seating and great eats and treats. They have some amazing dishes, quality dishes, scratch made hummus and shawarma beef plate is so filling. I tried something new and fell in love with Kibbeh. So much delicious food.

Muhammara Flatbread
Haneen O.

I have passed this restaurant many times and finally visited recently. They were having a fundraiser for Palestine so of course I had to support. I placed an order online and set my pickup time for 45 minutes later. We wanted to try a variety of items since it was our first time trying this place. We got a lamb kabob entree, beef shawarma entree (entrees come with salad, hummus, rice and pita bread). We also got their falafel plate (6 pieces), chicken kabob wrap, cheese & zaatar flatbread, and a muhammara flatbread. I arrived and my order was in the process of being packed up. I'm glad I had a few minutes when I arrived because I was checking out their offers and the restaurant itself, which is nice with decent amount of seating. They have multiple tv screens that rotate through slides and one of them is a Ramadan special: free lentil soup and 3 piece sambusas with any entree order. I asked the friendly woman employee if I could get that added on to my order, and she was very gracious about it and asked one of the cooks to prepare the food in a timely manner, though I was fine waiting. We got the food home and had it for dinner. I enjoyed my chicken kabob wrap, lots of pickles which I love. The flatbreads were thin and I enjoyed eating them cold the next day. The hummus was delicious and the lamb kabob was good. The beef shawarma had a weird texture to it, not used to it so I'd probably pass on ordering it again. The falafel bites were tasty especially with the tahini sauce. And the sambusas were bite-size and filled with meat and veggie, good stuff. Lastly, I tried the lentil soup and it was nice, glad I got to taste it. Customer service was excellent here! Several people dining in, picking up orders, and the employee was handling it all like a champ. I recommend trying this restaurant and supporting a local business!

Susan G.

11/9/24 Short version: wow, what a plethora of meal, drinks, and dessert options. So many choices it was difficult to choose. Friendly staff, clean restaurant. Very happy with the experience. Longer version: there is plenty of parking, patio seating, and it's pretty large inside. While looking at the menu, I noticed a small alcove further inside -- and saw a few more dessert choices. Yummy! The gentleman back there was super nice, explaining what was in "his" counter. The guy at the menu register was also very polite, and was happy to explain about the Jamaica juice in their fridge. We ordered two different flavors of the Freez carbonated drinks (I regret not buying more to sample at home); the pineapple & coconut was very tasty. The Jamaica juice does not have sugar and even so, it was still pretty good, although I may add some Sprite, or even OJ to the rest. We ordered the beef shawarma plate and hummus beef shawarma. My sister said the rice was not as flavorful as she has had elsewhere, I thoroughly enjoyed my hummus. And the pita? Oh man, it came out hot and was so good. The one guy behind the counter probably thought I was rude for staring but I was watching him brush off the flour (?) from the oven and start forming what I assume would become pita. It seriously looked so good, I told my sister, "I wonder if they'd sell us raw dough." :-) The rice pudding with pistachio was so thick and creamy, I devoured it. The cheese dessert was also delicious, very mild flavor, but I only had a couple bites. I was saving it for a midnight snack. Golden Restaurant is well worth a visit, and return visit, and more return visits.

Fattoosh Salad
Daniel K.

Delicious fresh food from Golden Restaurant! I checked this place out on a Thursday night and wasn't disappointed. Everything was tasty and made to order! (There's a sign inside that said that and they weren't kidding it made a big difference) We got the fattoosh salad, combo platter, and pistachio baklava. Fattoosh salad - Lebanese bread salad and the star was the crispy pita on top. Could just eat this with hummus. Combo platter - massive amount of food for $20 and you get 3 big skewers of marinated chicken, ground chicken and lamb/beef kebab. Favorite here was the ground chicken which was so flavorful and unique while wifey loved the chicken. All three were delicious and juicy though! Roast onion was a nice touch here as well. Pistachio baklava - Was good but meh for me maybe I ordered wrong? They have so many varieties so I want to try some other flavors like my fave cream. Service was quick and easy I appreciated the fast casual vibe of DIY where you can get in and out quick. I'll def be back! (They also got some dank flatbreads that looked really good. Honestly with the huge menu I gotta come back and try more)

Freshly baked Baklava Assorted Tray

Stopped by because I was craving some middle eastern food. They had a wide variety of things, so if your party has vegetarians and meat eaters this place will have something for everyone. I got the spinach and meat pie. I like that their dough is really thin. The spices they used for both were a little different than what I expected, but they were still flavorful. For the spinach pie I expect air to have a little tart bite from some pomegranate molasses and some walnuts for texture. This was quintessentially spinach! The meat pie also had a different flavor, but I couldn't identify the spices. The meat to bread ratio was good and I didn't have too much crust around the outside. Maybe next time I'll try their cheese boat and kabobs. While I didn't originally go in to get desserts, there was someone assembling various baklava sweets in trays. I asked him about it and he offered me a sample. The cashew finger was still warm from the oven and it melts in your mouth. I took a box immediately and have no regrets! I did not dine-in, but there was plenty of seating indoors and there were a few tables outside. It seemed very busy when I stopped by for lunch on a weekend so make sure you don't mind waiting since they bake your food fresh!

Rachel S.

What's not to love about this place. Authentic and delicious food with friendly service. We had too many options so I recommend the entire menu. Try this place!!

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Lots of Mediterranean food choices. Decent food for the price. Great chicken meat kabobs Great service!

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Authentic middle eastern food. Generous portion of delicious food. Friendly service.

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Great service and food, especially the desserts. Plenty of seating and very welcoming staff

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I loved my baba ganoush and my lamb plate. My bread was delicious too. My salad was fresh and crispy. No complaints from my part.

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