This place had very delicious food and good customer service! We had a great time. The environment…read morewas great as well.

If you love high quality, reasonably priced, fresh Middle Eastern food and you are in Albany then…read morehead over to Zaffron. Some friends and I were passing through and came here. After tasting some of the food we all decided that we will definitely return. Absolutely an incredible experience.

Food - 100/10 Service - Exemplary…read moreAmbiance - Welcoming Great for large groups, families, meeting your best friend or just going by yourself. Also great for take out! What's good on the menu? EVERYTHING

The food here never disappoints! The service is always friendly. However the dining room area could…read moreuse some deep cleaning.

I highly recommend falafel express. This location has to go…read moreor dine in there is lots of seating and parking has a lot of space outside. The ambience is nice. The staff here are amazing always very friendly. The food is excellent. I always get the chicken falafel platter. With extra sauce on it and on the side so good.

It's amazing just how large a variety of items can be made here in such a small space, and…read moreeverything is just so fresh and flavorful. Their tabbouleh is quite interesting and tangy and went well with the wrap I got. Service is very friendly, and food comes out quickly. It was really tough limiting myself to sensible proportions trying to decide what to order.

Amazing food. I will definitely be back to try more items. Flavorful, fresh, just great all around…read more Service was fast and friendly, you just order at the front counter and wait. Not a whole lot of seating, mainly great place for takeout, but we did eat in and with not a lot of people it was comfortable. Definitely recommended!

Order at the counter and food is brought to the table. The order taker helped me choose. Food came…read morehot and quickly. Delicious chicken shawarma and seasoned fries. I also ordered fried cheese borek that was a new taste for me and delicious. Restaurant is clean and quiet and Nicole decorated.

This is one of the best Shalimar locations in the area and the closest to my house. The food is…read morealways hot, quick, and tastes great. The chicken tikka masala is nice and creamy and doesn't have a strong tomato taste like some places, which I appreciate. Everyone that works there is super nice. I think the portions seem a little smaller than full serve places but the size is still adequate and the prices are relative.

For what is essentially an enhanced food court experience, you get a pretty tasty meal here,…read moreeverything comes out quickly, and the owner takes very good care of you. The menu is pretty extensive for the seemingly small kitchen space you can see behind the counter. My vegetable samosas (2) were piping hot and had a decent amount of "not potato" in them, accompanied by 2 sauces. The Chicken Tikka Masala Bowl includes a generous amount of well-prepared rice. Normally I pass on rice except as a vehicle for sauce, but I finished this. The sauce had a reasonably deep red color and an enjoyable spicy flavor, maybe a little less tomato flavor than I've had elsewhere, but still quite good. Naan, wrapped in foil, is fresh and hot, but not necessarily crisp. Flavored naans will have the flavors as a stuffing. My mango lassi was excellent - I almost wanted to steal a larger milkshake cup from nearby Herbie's and ask for that to be filled up instead. All in all, if you are looking for an Indian meal while at Galleria 7, you will be very satisfied here.

I stopped in on a weeknight and ordered from the kiosk. I got the Grilled Chicken Signature Bol,…read morewhich is chicken, white rice, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, feta and their signature white sauce. I also ordered a side of pita and hummus. I was dining in and waited less than 10 minutes for my food. The portion was absolutely HUGE! I couldn't believe it. I barely made a dent in it! It tasted fresh and the sauce was really tasty. The pita and hummus were also fresh too. I grabbed a box for my leftovers and had another meal out of it. Overall, the place was clean, there was enough seating if you're dining in, the food was fresh and ordering was extremely easy. Definitely recommend!

The service was great! The food was amazing. I love Mediterranean food and this did not disappoint…read more I ordered a build your own bowl. All the vegetables were fresh. The chicken was freshly cooked and I like that. All the flavors together is just a nice thing to have. I will definitely go back even though it is a little bit out of my way. I don't mind taking a little drive to get some delicious food. The restaurant was very bright, clean and inviting.

Excellent legit Greek food…read more Recommend the mezze platter as a starter: hummus, tzatziki, ezme, eggplant tomatoes, and tirokafter. All super flavorful and decent size portions for a starter. Can serve about 4. Also recommend the keftedakia grilled lamb & beef seasoned with garlic, mint, parsley & onion and served with tzatziki. Also decent sized for an appetizer. Can't go wrong with any fish here. Service was excellent both times we went. Online ordering via Toast https://order.toasttab.com/online/athos

Great food, everything tasted fresh and the restaurant was very clean. Service was amazing and not…read morerushed but also moved. I ordered Branzino filet and husband ordered beef souvlaki. They were out of the short rib but his was very good. The bourbon drink on special was amazing! I was nervous to go because it was a little out of my comfort zone but it is a wonderful date night spot.

Every day I'm confronted with the same dilemma, what's for lunch? What's for dinner? We were…read morein Colonie recently and stopped to visit Legends. It was a little confusing in that the had 2 menus; Legends Pizza and Legends Kabobs. I asked for a chicken gyro and got what I thought was Schwartz type sliced chicken. It may be my ignorance or expectations. Neither here nor there, what I got was delicious. A warmed pita stuffed with chicken, a yogurt sauce (did not seem to be Tzatziki, but was good) with lettuce and onions. It's location is a small strip mall around the corner from a bagel place and Hannaford. Parking was adequate. Staff were quick to fill the order. It's a place we would go back to. Go get lunch!

Food was on point. Service is good, I did a take out. Would definitely try more stuff again soon…read more Beef Kebabs were great. I like the tomato n pepper charred and put on the rice concept. Great job serving real food.

I hadn't given Sage Bistro much consideration, perhaps because the exterior of the restaurant is…read moresomewhat nondescript. After checking photos of the interior and the food, I changed my mind, and after dining there, I changed my opinion - for the better, much better. Dinner here was excellent, with perfect service. The decor is somewhat classic with just enough upbeat sights and sounds to keep it interesting. Even though we ordered cocktails, the wine list is a nice draw, with many reasonably priced wines by the bottle and glass. Our "small plate" of roasted brussels sprouts with bacon in a sriracha mayonnaise was large enough to be a meal for one person. Dinner salads come with both traditional and unique dressings, and after our salad plates were cleared, our dinners arrived less than 1 minute later. My Portuguese chicken had the right spices and was served with pomme frites (most other dinners will come with rice or pasta). Dessert options include gourmet flavored coffees in the $10-$12 range, plus some decadent sounding desserts (without prices listed). There is enough variety on the menu here, combined with specials, to savor flavors from numerous Mediterranean cuisines.

Our experience might have been unusual. We had lunch on a Saturday and were disappointed because…read morethere seemed to be excessive use of cooking oil. Perhaps due to our menu choices. I had the chicken pesto panini with fries. Partner had a gyro with onion rings. Ingredients were fresh and prep was good. Unfortunately the veggies in the panini were dripping with oil, as if the oil had been squirted on top while the veggies were pre-frying. Fries and rings were lightly crisped but shiny with oil. I can still taste it hour later. Gyro was good. Interesting local art work was on display, ceiling lighting alternated between bright white LED and dimmer yellow LED. Going all yellow might be a better choice. Service was friendly and efficient. Nice place to eat. Judging from the other reviews we might try it again.

I have experienced Tara's food in a variety of contexts: ala carte at the original Schenectady…read morerestaurant, on the generous lunch buffet, and now in the prepared food incarnation at the repurposed Guilderland restaurant which is now primarily for takeout though you can dine in if you like. It's very approachable Mediterranean food: an overused word but the best way to describe it. Tara uses a lot of spices that will be new to many diners, but the results are well balanced and will not turn off people who are afraid of heat or funky smells. I've dined at this location when it was a sit down restaurant and now it is a "Mediterranean market". You can order a/combination meal with an entree and two sides, to eat in or take out b/a variety of specialty prepared dishes which were designed in collaboration with former New World chef Ric Orlando c/snacks such as dolmas, baclava etc d/jarred spices and sauces, made by Tara (they are great) and others. There's also a nice assortment of dishes, famines and coffee urns for sale. I ordered a chicken and spinach taigine with chickpeas and orange plus seasoned rice for my sides and it was a very good and filling meal with generous portions. Also took home several jarred items and a tub of dolmas (great) and baklava (too dry) at $4.95 each. Not a five star meal because the combo order was not heated thoroughly with some cold sections, and the baklava needed some honey syrup or other moisturizer. But very good food and a great resource if you are in the area.

I might be the odd one out but I was a little under whelmed by my experience at Tara Kitchen. The…read morefood was great, but I wanted more. Literally. This was my first time here so I guess we didn't know what to expect as" Upon entering, it is a nice space, smelled great, comfy seating and nice decor. Our service was great and everything came out quick and fresh. We started out with drinks, wine for me and a Moroccan beer for my date. We were also served hot tea, which tasted exactly like sleepy time tea and honestly I felt really tired by the time I left. We wanted to order the cigars, the restaurant was empty and had just opened for dinner about 30 minutes before we arrived. They were sold out ... okay. We decided to order the Casablanca platter of hummus, olives and pickled vegetables. This large serving of hummus came with 4 small triangles of pita. Not even enough to eat half the hummus, and when we asked for more we were charged. The hummus was delicious and fresh, the olives were an excellent pairing with the hummus and the veggies offered a bright bite as well. It was a great balanced plate to share for a starter. We have been trying to eat lighter so we decided to split the Lamb Tangina, this was not ideal. While there was enough for us both to feel satisfied, the portion for $30 left some to be desired. There were about 5 small pieces of lamb, a few potatoes, and the vessel was mostly filled with (delicious) broth. This was also served with less than 1/4 cup of basmati rice, I am not even joking. It was like a 2oz cup of rice for this brothy dish. We thought it was comical. After saying that, it was so freaking delicious. The lamb melted under the weight of your spoon, the broth flavor was deep with complexity from the smen (fermented butter) and preserved lemon. It was kind of like a soup, I was just eating spoon fulls of the broth. I would definitely come back, and at least we know what to expect as far as serving sizes. It's just pricy for what you actually get, but I suppose the flavors were worth it and I'm glad to have experienced it.