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    4.2 (59 reviews)
    Open • 10:30 am - 9:00 pm

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    Chicken Shawarma Bowl
    Veronica L.

    First time at a NAYA! Very similar to a Cava / Mezze with bowl + wraps. Stopped by on an early Sat afternoon and there was ample seating. I decided to get a Chicken Shawarma bowl bc it seemed basic enough. However, I did ask the server what protein they preferred and they said the Lamb, so they generously added a piece of Lamb at no extra cost! I also trusted the server choose the toppings and sauces to add + it didn't disappoint! I got the side of pita to round out my first time. Overall, the bowl was great! I will say, similar to other fast casual bowl spots, after 1/2 way through, all your bites start to taste the same. Not in a bad way, it's just the nature of everything getting mixed together. Service was a bit slow bc there were mobile orders coming in, but shoutout to the friendly staff overall! I wish there were outlets for me to charge my phone lol Decent location in the heart of Downtown Brooklyn with a huge plaza right outside to enjoy the nice weather.

    Fuang C.

    Been craving a healthy bowl but also Mediterranean flavors so this was great. First time trying NAYA, it's similar to chipotle where you build your own bowl but with a Mediterranean twist. The toppings are unlimited! But they didn't seem too generous in scooping them. I really liked the onions and the baba ghanoush. The chicken Shawarma was a little bit dry. The hummus was just OK. Overall, decent but nothing too amazing. Will be trying another chain next time.

    Julia K.

    Great Naya location conveniently located at the MetroTech commons area and nowadays open on weekends. Service is quick, & friendly, serving the regular Naya menu, and the premise is clean with seating inside and outside.

    Chicken shawarma NAYA Bowl
    Lynn D.

    Had the chicken shawarma bowl & was actually impressed with how flavorful it was. The service was professional & the staff were friendly. A great option if you need food fast, especially if you aren't a fan of traditional "fast food" chains.

    Danielle A.

    It was my first time visiting Naya. For the most part, it's a fast casual restaurant with a build your own concept. I opted for a rice bowl with braised beef. The food was pretty good and service was quick. There was really nothing to write home about. Would I go again, probably.

    Chicken NAYA Salad
    Joy G.

    Fresh, healthy fast-casual option if you're in this neighborhood. I especially enjoyed the chicken shish taouk, or marinated chunks of chicken breast, combined with the cucumber yogurt/hummus add-ins. Lots of options for customizing. If you love all the extra toppings like me, Naya has choices beyond just lettuce and tomato like olives, pickled onions, cabbage, pickled cucumbers. It reminded me of Cava but fresher and less heavy in the belly. They also have a bunch of smaller dips and sides, like grape leaves and tabboule salad, as well as appetizers like fried beef dumplings, mini pies, and pastries with haloumi. The one thing I didn't love was the nammoura made of semolina. It was way too sweet and the texture was too gritty/sandy.

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    Food was amazing, music was great, and customer service on par. Dairy free friendly.

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    excellent customer service quick efficient fresh foods 10 out of 10. No no highly recommend.

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    The staff are always so friendly and quick! Food is always delicious and fresh. Very clean establishment love coming on my lunch breaks.

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    The food is always fresh and amazing, and so is Angelica great food and great service as always

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    Food is fresh, warm, and tasty. Service is always quick and everyone is nice! It's not too expensive.

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    LOVELY service from DJ! always high quality ingredient! my husband and i come here at least once a week. twice most of the times!

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    Amazing service from DJ! Delicious food and always fresh! Will keep coming back. Very generous with portions.

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    DJ is amazing,always pleasant and helps everyone out. He should be recognized for his outstanding customer service.

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    Thank you Jina. See you soon at NAYA

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    they are great. amazing service from the staff. my guy DJ is a delight. and the food is nice and fresh

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    Sawa - This was their ice cream desert with Tree Sap syrup and Turkish cotton candy, pistachios, and flower petals. Insane

    Sawa

    4.4(57 reviews)
    1.0 mi•Park Slope
    •$$$

    Wonderful meal at Sawa on Saturday night. We were able to get a table for the (beautiful!) outdoor…read morepatio about a day in advance. The ambiance is cozy, inviting, and upscale. Service was incredibly warm, and our waiter gave helpful recs when navigating the wine menu, which featured mostly wines from Lebanon. For 2, we got: - baba ghannouj - muhammara - dips come with fresh, fluffy, warm pita - batata hara (crispy, spicy fried potatoes with garlic) - heirloom tomato (with garlic toum and sunflower seeds) - octopus - lamb chops Everything was delicious and extremely flavorful! The heirloom tomatoes were a standout dish: fresh, packed tons of flavor, and I loved how everything went together. The waiter mentioned they're seasonal and will be swapped out for something for the fall season soon. Dips and potatoes were excellent. Octopus was the one weaker spot. The skewer was a bit small and the preparation left the meat a little lackluster and chewy (I'm picky with my octopus!) The lamb chops were very tender with tons of flavor - char, mint, meat. A bit heavy but might just be because I don't eat a ton of red meat. I was VERY full by the end of the meal! I think we could have done 1-2 fewer dishes and still been very satisfied, but I'm glad I got to try so many things. The mains took a while to come out, though I enjoyed the longer, non-rushed, 'let's chat over delicious bites for hours' feeling of the meal overall. Great dining experience. The bill came to about ~$100 per person for the above + a drink (one wine, one mocktail) each. Between the fantastic ambiance, service, and high quality flavors, I found it to be worth the price and great for a treat yourself outing, date, or special occasion.

    Chef worked at Sofreh - which is one of my faves - and I love Lebanese food, so I was excited to…read moretry this spot. Made a reservation for dinner on a Thurs night and tried: + Seaside snap cocktail + Coco logic cocktail + Hummus with Wagyu beef cheek and pine nuts + Baba ghannouj + Snap peas with labneh + Muhammara + sfeeha - baked lamb pies + lamb ribs Cocktails were fine - would get wine next time. Food was excellent, with my favorite dish being the lamb ribs. Baba ghannouj, snap peas and sfeeha were all delicious as well. I do prefer the muhammara at Miss Ada, but would order the rest of the dips (and hummus) here again. 4.5 stars.

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    Huda - Green almonds

    Huda

    4.4(52 reviews)
    2.4 mi•Williamsburg - North Side

    Visited on a Friday night with no resy, wait was ~30mins for table outside. Definitely missed out…read moreon the very nice vibe inside, as the outdoor seating is folding tables on the sidewalk, however waitstaff was very friendly. 4.5/5 Hummus / Pita -- piping hot and fresh pita on very flavorful hummus Great start of the meal. 4/5 Salad - it seems the salad changes seasonally, we had it with some chichory, which definitely had a bitter end note that balanced the nutty dressing in our opinion 4.5/5 Lamb Meatballs -- a must order! Such a unique dish with the cherries and pistachios contrasting the lamb flavor. Cocktails were light and refreshing!

    The service at Huda was fantastic, and every dish had a really unique twist to it! The staff seemed…read morereally happy to help out whenever we needed something, and I would definitely come back and try some of these dishes again. I think the honey/cheese dish stood out the most. It was a little bit difficult to talk when we were seated in the back area because the acoustics there are not very conducive to conversation, especially when it's busy. There was a group of four girls next to us just catching up, and maybe a few other couples in the space, and it was still really hard to hear each other, enough that it honestly kind of gave me a headache to sit in the back! If you are going here for a date and you actually want to chat, I would recommend asking to be seated in the front so you can actually hear each other.

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    Mesiba - Dining room

    Mesiba

    4.3(122 reviews)
    1.7 mi•Williamsburg - South Side

    Gorgeous restaurant, but unfortunately the food is just ok. There's a ton of Mediterranean…read morerestaurants in the area that I would rather go to. I feel like the prices here are too expensive to justify the quality. My favorite thing was the babaganoush. Also, the service is not great. It feels like the staff haven't been trained properly. There were times that our waitress seemed lost and didn't know what she was doing. We had to ask other wait staff questions to get proper answers. Also, don't advertise a special menu on Opentable and give people the option to reserve the menu when you aren't offering it. Came here for latkes and caviar for NYE since it said it was on the menu when I reserved on Opentable. Got there and was told they only served it during Hannuka Hanukkah. Checked their IG and they were still posting they were serving it. Total let down.

    I felt like everything here was very average. The schnitzel was good, not great. It was a little…read moredry. The table-side hummus was very standard hummus, and the table-side experience didn't add much. The baba ganoush was pretty good, however. I didn't love the pomegranate seeds, but they kind of just got in the way and made it harder to eat. The prawn risotto was decent, but again, nothing really blew me away. The service was great, and the ambiance inside was great as well, but due to the food just lacking much personality, I will not be returning.

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    Boutros - Mission Fig toast

    Boutros

    4.4(279 reviews)
    0.5 mi•Cobble Hill, Brooklyn Heights
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    Pretty good lebanese food. Good brunch, good for dinner, everything hits home. Nothing will…read morenecessarily blow your socks off, but if this wasn't NYC it might. The Duck fat Batata is just soooo flavorful and wonderful with the toum. The labne is great and with honey just so good. The Short Rib is good on the hummus or in it's own dish. Really flavorful and scrumptious. The soujuk is nice and spicy. French toast at breakfast is also just really quite good. Hard to dislike this place, especially when you open up with such good fresh, hot pita. Cocktails are also good, I really liked the Cloud 9 as a breakfast cocktail, but there's lots of good cocktails and wine choices for dinner too. The service was splendid, but not too much, and the vibes are lovely. You can drop by sahadis after for shopping, and that's always a good idea.

    We found Boutros completely by chance while looking for a good brunch spot in Brooklyn, and what a…read moregreat find! We walked in without a reservation and had no problem getting seated. The restaurant is spacious with a vibrant, lively atmosphere. One thing that immediately stood out was the music. For a Middle Eastern restaurant, the playlist was refreshingly diverse. We heard everything from hip-hop and salsa to world music, and it really added to the vibe. Our server, Omar, was EXCELLENT! If you can, ask to sit in his section. He was warm, attentive, knowledgeable, and absolutely wonderful throughout our meal. We started with the very popular short rib hummus and homemade pita, and it definitely lived up to the hype. Very, very good! Everything tasted incredibly fresh, especially the hummus and bread, which are made in-house. We also tried another pita topped with spices, which was a little more sophisticated and absolutely worth ordering. For brunch, we tried the Lebanese omelette, which was a little bland for my taste, but the fig toast was a MUST! Definitely one of the standouts of the meal. The chicken shawarma was also very good. For drinks, we tried the Strawberry & Na'a along with one of their bourbon-based cocktails and enjoyed both. Overall, Boutros was such a pleasant surprise. Great atmosphere, fresh food, fun music, and exceptional service from Omar. There's still so much on the menu I want to try, so I will FOR SURE be back!

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    Short rib hummus

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    Miss Ada - Israeli Salad

    Miss Ada

    4.4(643 reviews)
    0.7 mi•Fort Greene
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    Make your reservation - this place was busy even right at 5 pm on a Friday!…read moreMiss Ada is the perfect place to come with friends and order a bunch of things to share. I highly recommend getting an assortment of dips and small plates - 2-3 dishes per person was just right for us. I can't pick a favorite item of the evening: The Israeli Salad Hummus was some of the best/most flavorful hummus I've had, the Whipped Ricotta was perfect and so fluffy, and the Matbucha & Labne are also great additions to the table. They make a really good Falafel here, and the Crispy Cauliflower were perfectly crispy and well-sauced. The Chocolate Babka dessert is a great way to end your meal, and they do make a solid espresso martini for those wondering. The only thing I was not a fan of is their drink menu - all of the cocktails are spicy or smoky. Although you can sub out different alcohols, it would be nice to have a few other options.

    Had a reservation for a Saturday afternoon and they were busy. We had to wait a little for our…read moretable to open up. We were seated in the back and it was spacious. Picnic style tables. We ordered a variety of humus to share with the table and some were better than others. Pricing was mixed, a little expensive for hummus but they did refill out pitas. We had drinks and each got a plate which some were enough for two while others were larger portions and shareable. We dug in and didn't have time for pics. It was good but a little pricier for what it was.

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    Outdoor set up

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    Whipped Ricotta and Babaghanoush

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    NAYA - lebanese - Updated September 2026

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