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    Urban Olive

    2.0 (46 reviews)
    Open 10:00 am - 9:00 pm

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    Chicken Pita after already eating 3 pieces of chicken!
    Allegra A.

    I did not experience unfriendly service or bad food as others have mentioned. In fact I very much enjoyed the chicken pita with fries. Have realistic expectations that it's airport food and not an award winning Mediterranean restaurant and you won't be disappointed. Generous portions and reasonable prices given the airport. Located in terminal 5 food court area.

    I want a refund!

    I spent $37 for two pitas and found out AFTER I ordered that they were out of hummus!! Hummus comes standard on all of the pitas, it says so on the menu. This woman in the photo needs to be fired! She doesn't speak English at all well enough to be taking orders and is stupid and lazy! She had multiple opportunities to tell me there was no hummus, and we would have ordered something else! My daughter wanted no cucumber salad and no tzatziki sauce on hers, and I kept repeating, "but she DOES want hummus." Then a few minutes later they asked again and I clarified again "no cucumber salad or Tzatziki sauce but yes hummus. I talked slowly and repeated so she could understand. Then she said something on another language to the other lady making it. My daughter's pita sat there with just tomatoes on it and I asked why there was no hummus on it and THEN they said they didn't have any! I told her she should have told me that. The man in the photo came out and asked what was wrong and I told him that she didn't tell us there was no hummus and he offered to put chickpeas in. I said yes I definitely want chickpeas then on mine. There were NO CHICKPEAS! Also THERE is no cucumber salad, which I very clearly said I wanted!!! I got a plain, dry pita, with an inch of mushy vegetable mix, and that was it! How can you screw up BOTH sandwiches?? Also, the vegetable mix either has way too much salt in it today, or they sabotaged mine and dumped a ton of salt on it. It was absolutely inedible! Not a little too salty. Like absolutely inedible. I had to throw it away! So for $37 I ate dry bread and French fries heading into a 9 hour ordeal where food will be closed at my next layover. Of course, we had walked 10 minutes to our gate before sitting down to eat and there was nothing we could do. This place and its people ripped me off and should be punished for their incompetence and abhorrent customer service!. I want a refund!!! Look at my receipt and take it outing their paychecks!

    Yucky steak pita with fries
    Victoria E.

    This was the worse airport food, I have ever eaten. I really did not eat just tasted it. Sounded good steak pita, fries, hummus, taatziki and cucumber salad. Steak was cold tough and tasteless. Fries greasy and pita was old crumbled and cold. It look like some one threw up on my plate. For the $17.00 one of the worse meals I could not eat. Asked the man behind counter and was told that it is what it is. Gave one point for the taatziki sauce had some flavor. O'Hara in Chicago how just about some of your famous pizza ? So few food choices with Wow Bao staying closed at lunch. Line around building for 51 only full service.

    Nicole E.

    Very small menu and not much for salad options. Wanted the Mediterranean salad but once I saw the old wilted nasty looking leaves and browned up cauliflower and unidentifiable brown stuff that the staff couldn't tell what it was either, I told him to scratch the Mediterranean and get me the Greek since the romaine lettuce at least looked a bit more lively than the wilted and left out too long Mediterranean salad. The tomatoes are huge chunks, not bite sized, forgot and didn't think I would need a knife. Ate the tomato like an big Apple slice. The herb feta tastes decent and some of the yellow peppers were fresh and tasty, some were older and darker in color and didn't have the fresh bite of the brighter yellow peppers. At least the romaine lettuce looked crisp and green, much more so than their Mediterranean salad. Their plated display dishes looked old and nasty and doesn't nothing to make any of their dishes look appetizing at all.

    Steak bowl

    Food (steak bowl) could not be worse for $14.45+tax. Service n/a Ambiance n/a Better go to Burger King nearby

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    Kirsten J.

    Unfriendly staff. I ordered a falafel platter with French fries. The guy at the register tried to charge an extra $2.00 for rice that I didn't even order. When I told him that i had the wrong total he played it down. I asked the staff if they could fill up my water bottle. The guy just looked at me and pointed into the direction of the restroom. The food was ok.. tasting. Wouldn't go back.

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    7 months ago

    Portions small, food dry, meat overcooked, unhelpful staff. I ordered the steak bowl and it seemed like I was gnawing on rubber.

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    3 years ago

    The food we took was very dry and salty, someone got a bug in his salad, everything was very expensive. DO NOT GO THERE

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    Garbage food. Ordered the chicken pita. The pita was like leather and the chicken dried out. What a waste.

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    3 years ago

    Horrible food, horrible and not professional staff. The worst airport food I ever tried.

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    A pretty great place, as far as airport food is concerned. I recommend their falafel plate.

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    They only accept cash. Looks like a good menu. Mediterranean and Indian food. Bad service

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    Food was great but no drink refills. Definitely comes off as tacky. Didn't even realize there were still places that do that.

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    Good tasting food far airport food but the drinks were pricey. Friendly folks behind the counter and very helpful.

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    8 years ago

    Tried Spicy Chicken with basmati rice. The quantity was good but the gravy was too sour. Could not eat it.

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