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Urban Olive

2.0 (47 reviews)
Closed • 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.

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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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9 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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10 years ago

Very unorganized, unfriendly staff, nobody working on the grill, took forever, will never go back

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7 years ago

this was the worst airport food that i can remember. cold, undercooked chicken and the fries were soggy, limp, greasy and room temperature.

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The food was excellent. Everything was tasty, though the grilled meats were dry. I'm happy to go…read moreback for the food, but the service was lacking. Our waitress took almost 10 minutes to come by. Another 10 minutes before she took our appetizer order. We wanted to order our main dishes, but it was next to impossible to get her attention; she is really good at walking by while avoiding eye contact. Another waiter seemed to notice our discontent and came by to take the final order, see if we needed anything, and finally, to bring the bill. If you've got the time to sit through a long meal, the food is worth it.

Webt out with some family members visiting from Florida. The like Mediterranean food so we decided…read moreto go to Al Bawadi Grill, There were about 20 of us anf they were able to accomadate us all. It was so hard to decide on what to get so we decided to get 3 of the Al Bawadi Appetizer Sampler Platter which has Falafel, Grape Leaves, Feta Cheese, and homemade Hummus and Baba Ghanouj. Chicken Toshka: Baked pita bread stuffed with chicken shawarma, cheese and garlic spread. Fried Halloumi Cheese And for the main: large mixed kabab platter - shish kabab, kufta kabab, chicken shish tawook, lamb chops, served over our biryani and saffron rice and garnished with fresh parsley and roasted almonds. Lastly, a Grilled Shrimp Kabab Plate. I must say it was a ton of food! And I certainly tried a little of everything. Each bite was good and you couldn't go wrong. I really loved the Chicken Toshka - it was so good and I loved the crunchy baked pita the chicken and cheese was creamy! The servers were nice and very helpful. If you visit, I'm 100% sure that whatevr you order will be good. I thik the next time I visit, I'll order something small so it can be focused. But I will be sure to order the Chicken Toshka.

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