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Vega Shawarma

4.3 (41 reviews)
Closed • 11:00 am - 8:00 pm

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Simone G.

I went here on a weekday and it was empty so I decided to eat inside. The space is beautiful. I love the archway that leads to the bathrooms and the tile on the walls as well as the light fixtures. The bathrooms were clean and seem to be serviced often. The menu has the perfect amount of options on it. They have rotating spits with the meat for your shawarma being shaved off when you order. I ordered a chicken shawarma (it's thigh which I usually hate but wasn't a big deal for me here). It comes with fresh and pickled vegetables as well as a sauce. The toppings were fresh and delicious. I do wish the meat was salted or seasoned. I also ordered za'atar fries which I loved. And I had enough food to eat the shawarma twice. I got a separate order of the kabees. I enjoyed the pickled cauliflower. The pistachio butter crunch brownie seems their take on the Dubai chocolate bar and wasn't super sweet which I could appreciate. The texture was interesting. Overall very fresh, disappointed with the lack of flavor on the meat.

Kids chicken shawarma
Cherelle J.

This has become one of my favorites. We ordered the basmati rice bowl with chicken, Vega loaded fries with falafel, kids chicken shawarma. Everything was delicious!

Elizabeth H.

Nice fresh middle eastern food with cool vibes inside and great hospitality from the staff. We went on a hot Saturday and the cool AC lured us inside the herby air of Vega Shawarma. We went with the Chicken Schawarma, Lamb Ayres, fries, and baklava. The chicken shawarma was huge and filled with fresh as well as pickled veggies and plentiful chicken. The lamb ayres was smaller but packed with meat with the pickled veggies and sauce on the side. The fries were amazing and seasoned with lots of flavor. We saved the baklava for home and enjoyed the later on as we were full from our mains. It was delicious with pistachios and honey. The staff was all super nice and gave great recommendations. There were plenty of seats inside and free parking outside. We decided we'll definitely be back and hope to try another item on the menu next!

Chicken Shawarma
Jenny A.

I'm a big fan of Lyra, so I knew I'd love this place. We went pretty early and they were already busy. I had the chicken shawarma and one of their house made sodas. Everything was SO fresh and full of flavor. The hibiscus spiced soda was perfectly balanced (slightly sweet and just so many different flavors packed into it). I can't wait to go back and try more things. It's so nice to have Vega, Shotgun Willies and the hot dog place all in one spot.

Jasmine C.

Rode by and seen this place, so I decided to give it a try. I must say I was highly disappointed and expected better. The beef felt like it turned to mush when I bit into the wrap. The flavor wasn't really there and out of the various of other establishments similar to this, they didn't taste like this. I hate to say it seems like I wasted money. But I guess you never know unless you try it. It could very well be the newness and them needing to work out the kinks. Maybe sometime in the future I'll give them another try.

Hummus and puts
Erin H.

Our family tried a variety of items, I had the falafel sandwich and it was very tasty. I added hummus but it would have been flavorful with or without it. I also got a house made soda, very delicious! The seating and atmosphere is pretty average and comfortable enough for a casual dining spot. The gentleman at the counter was nice and answered all our questions. The service was pretty quick but not fast food quick.

French fries
Christina W.

This place is so cute and the employees are extremely nice. We both got the beef shawarma wrap and fries. The shawarma is dense, filling, and tasty. Definitely add worth adding the feta. The French fries are soooo good served hot and crispy. The garlic dip is very strong but addicting. Be ready to be a garlic ball! We will be back!

Chicken Shwarma

The food here is VERY good and fresh and yummy and delicious. I didn't realize it was the sister restaurant to Lyra! Definitely will be back.

Beef Shawarma wrap
Lauren L.

The space is beautiful. Love aesthetic of the place. The staff is super friendly. They helped me figure out the menu on my first visit. The food came out fast and was wrapped to go. Shawarma style meat is delicious and the shawarma here has a good flavor. The thing was that I was hungry for a plate with rice. They don't do rice which is kind of a bummer. I suggest getting the garlic tahini. It's good.

So I finally stopped into Vega in Madison today. I've driven past this place probably a dozen times, always seeing the name but never pulling in. And I'll be honest: every time I saw "Vega," my brain just auto-filled "vegan" and I kept driving. Turns out? It's not a vegan restaurant at all, they've got meats, wraps, shawarma bowls, the whole thing. When I walked in, I asked the guy at the counter if they were vegetarian. He looked at me like, "No, we have everything." I told him, "Man, I would've come in here months ago if I knew that." I wasn't being rude, just real. I've got a degree in business administration, but honestly, you don't need one to spot when a branding decision might be costing you foot traffic. That name alone might be giving off the wrong impression to a lot of potential customers like me who just make a quick judgment on the signage. Anyway, I ordered the beef shawarma rice bowl. Flavor-wise? Solid. Meat was seasoned well, rice was fluffy, everything was fresh. But portion-wise? A little underwhelming, especially for the $19 price tag. That's creeping into premium lunch territory. For that price, I might just hit Chipotle, get a big ol' steak burrito, and still have enough left over for chips and guac for the value. Overall, the food is good -- no complaints on taste. But for Vega to stand out in a crowded plaza (and let's be real, in a city full of killer Middle Eastern spots), they might want to take a second look at how they're positioning themselves -- both in terms of branding and perceived value. Just my two cents from a first-time customer who almost never became one.

Seating
Chad P.

This restaurant is a hidden gym. It may be the best restaurant that I've ever eaten at in Madison Tennessee. The food was delicious. There is lots of seating and the restaurant is very bright and airy. The food came very quickly and I couldn't be more impressed.

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Just had lunch here today! The food was amazing and service even better!!!!! The restaurant was…read moreclean.

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4.4(366 reviews)
4.1 mi•Greenwood
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Dining experience! Lyra was recommended to us by a Nashville native, and I am always more than…read morehappy to make my way over to East Nashville for some good food and a local business. Everything is meant to be share style on the menu, and so we opted to do a few starting dips with pita bread as well as some salads and two main dishes. The pita bread was honestly the highlight of my night! It was made fresh and it was so simple, but so delectable on its own, even without the hummus, which was also delicious. I think this is one of the best places you can go for good appetizers. I felt that the meat was good, but not as stand out as the hummus and the asparagus salad. I would love to come back for the pita bread alone. The service was exceptional, with an attentive and friendly staff.

This place was ... fine. Two years ago I made a reservation and they called and cancelled it due to…read moreweather without an option to move me inside, so I wrote them off (I wanted to impress friends but thankfully another spot got us in). Decided to give it another try and probably won't go back. I think I'll give 4 stars because it's probably some people's favorite place but I'd probably rank it lower. Was good but honestly boring. I can get the same meal but better up the street on Gallatin with more decor, great staff, and more reasonable prices. It was pretty slow even with only a few tables taken on a week night. The explanation of the menu items wasn't clear even after asking (I don't think the staff member was fully knowledgeable on the ingredients) so we just picked what sounded okay and went with it.

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4.1(1.3k reviews)
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I had been wanting to visit Butcher & Bee for a long time, and I'm so glad I finally made it. The…read morerestaurant was completely packed when we visited, so I'm really glad I booked a table well in advance. They have a relatively small entrée menu, and the entrées are definitely on the pricey side. However, they have a great selection of appetizers and smaller plates, which makes it easy to try a variety of dishes. I decided to go with the Chef's Choice option, where the chef decides what you eat. Honestly, I'm really glad I went with this because it allowed us to experience a wide variety of dishes without having to choose everything ourselves. We started with fried potatoes with green garlic chimichurri and whipped feta with dip. The whipped feta was absolutely amazing and one of the first highlights of the meal. We then received a couple of special bite-sized appetizers, including bacon-wrapped dates and beet falafel bites. The bacon-wrapped date was delicious, and the beet falafel was a fun and flavorful bite. The halibut sushi was good, but the real surprise for me was the avocado and crispy rice salad. This dish was absolutely out of this world! The crispy rice added an amazing texture, and the combination of flavors was fantastic. For the entrée, we had the house kebab platter, which came with house shishito peppers, fried okra, mushrooms, chicken and steak kebabs, along with a side of fermented pepper. There was a lot going on with this platter, and it was a great way to finish the savory part of the meal. We ended dinner with the peach and almond Malabi, which was delicious and a perfect way to finish the meal. Overall, Butcher & Bee completely lived up to my expectations. The Chef's Choice experience was definitely the right decision, especially for someone like me who loves trying different dishes. The food was creative, flavorful, and full of interesting combinations. The only thing to keep in mind is that the entrées can be quite expensive, but the smaller plates give you a chance to sample a lot of different flavors. Definitely make a reservation ahead of time because this place fills up quickly!

We had a great experience, celebrating a birthday here and heard about B&B for a while. The Whipped…read morefeta definitely lives up to what we have heard with the fresh warm pita. Other dishes were ok we had the chicken Shawarma hummus, bacon wrapped dates, steak, and beet falafel. The dirty martini feta martini was very onion forward Aba is much better in my opinion. My mom had the Caprese cocktail it tasted off. Definitely think the drinks here missed the mark unfortunately compared to other restaurants in the area. The miso chocolate cake was fantastic and we got a sorbet along with it which was refreshing. Over all a great meal service was ok our waitress just seemed a bit fake and was hard to find when the restaurant did not seem super busy. Might have to try again!

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4.7(309 reviews)
8.8 mi•Woodbine, South Nashville
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It is a good place deserved a true Uzbek food highest recognition! They do a Tashkent " Toy Osh"…read more pilav kind identical to the one made in Tashkent, Uzbekistan! Serving it with traditional tomato salad and "Katick" a yogurt kind. Chief and Owners are nice guys with serving you with top respect! I do recommend this place to enjoy yummy Uzbek Foods!

We made a special visit to Osh to try them on a weekend trip to Nashville about a month ago. I'd…read moresaved them in my Nashville bookmarks for some time after they received a lot of acclaim on Yelp - I believe at one time they were on a Yelp list of best restaurants in the US. We were certainly excited to try Uzbek food, as there's nowhere that serves it where we live. The restaurant doesn't look like too much from the outside and the parking lot is a little run down. However, the inside is very updated and super clean and comfortable. There's lots of seating, what appears to be a private room in the back, and some high-tech features, like a machine that you can use to alert waitstaff if you need a refill, a to-go box, or any other kind of attention. The bathrooms were also immaculate. Service was a little strange. I wouldn't say it was slow - every time we placed an order or had a request, our food or items were promptly brought out to us. However, the challenge came in getting the attention of our waitresses. Two ladies took care of us, alternating based on availability. One was very nice and friendly, the other a little gruff and irritable-seeming. But both were completely averse to coming in and checking on us without one of us flagging them down. Perhaps they're used to the little machines? I don't like using those because they come across as too demanding; I'd prefer to just be visited and checked in on from time to time by staff. Not so here. Despite not being very busy, our visit took a lot of time, even though the actual food service was fairly quick. Onto the food, the most important part. We ordered a lot because I wanted to experience as many unique dishes as possible. One waitress first brought out a complimentary serving of pita and what I believe was suzma, which the menu describes as a yogurt-based cheese. This was one of the highlights of our meal, actually, as the pita was hot, fresh, and very lightly charred. The suzma went very well with it. Then we ordered a chicken somsa and some Uzbek bread. The chicken somsa was alright; the pastry was delightfully flaky, but for me it was way too onion-forward. The Uzbek bread was another highlight. It was a temperature and textural delight - so warm and fluffy - if not a flavor bomb. It was great to polish off the remaining suzma from our complimentary treat. For entrees, my husband wanted to try the signature osh, while I ordered chicken shashlik. The osh was probably the better of the two but he didn't love it. It was quite greasy and the lamb was on the gamey side. My chicken shashlik had definitely been near charcoal too long; it had an overly-charred, unpleasant chemical-y taste. The accompanying rice had so much butter or oil in it that it was greasy, too, and although that imparted more flavor into it, I felt gross after a couple of bites. Everything was cooked well, just the flavors really didn't quite come together for us on this visit. It's hard for me to believe, given the average outstanding reviews and consistent praise this place gets, that our experience was an average one. Perhaps we just came on an off day or ordered the wrong things for our palates, since we're fairly unfamiliar with this cuisine. I would be willing to try again some day, but sadly our first visit didn't quite wow the way we'd hoped it would. I appreciate the clean and pretty environment and quickly prepared food!

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4.3(452 reviews)
6.7 mi
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Found this place on yelp a travel a lot so I'm constantly checking out new spots. I love a good…read moreMediterranean Greek place from time to time and let me tell you some of that best service from the bus boy to the person taking the order not to mention how delicious my meal was. I got a steak hummus plate. I believe delicious I'll be back. Pretty pricey for sure, but the quality is there to back it up. I think with my tip that plate was $31. Yummy though I don't think I can afford to go there as much as I would like to however, I'll definitely be back.

I've heard for years about how great this place is still. I supported early on and it lost its…read moreflavor but tonight. NEVER WILL I EVER COME BACK. The waitress was lack luster in personality, we sat down asked for hummus and the young guy with long hair on staff said they didn't have change for a $20 so a 7.99 hummus turned into a 20 dollar bill when he never brought back the $5 my friend said just to bring back as a tip. Then my mom's hummus lamb plate had a clump of hair in the hummus. The staff, "would you like us to remake it or a refund" no I'm sorry not anything to remedy the situation. Between the 5 of us with to go plates was nearly $130 ish. I'm so disappointed and know the owner would be upset with how his staff handled this. My chicken saaj bowl also was lack luster in flavor, I go to another Mediterranean place locally that is way way way more flavor. Hope the owner has a talk with his team about back of the kitchen etiquette so there isn't food in other people's food.

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Cafe Rakka - Tablet order option

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4.1(25 reviews)
44.8 mi

I stopped in looking for authentic Egyptian food instead of the typical Americanized "Mediterranean…read moregrill" experience, and this place genuinely stood out. The Alexandrian liver was the highlight of the meal. I've had liver before in traditional American-style dishes, and this was completely different. The flavor was spicy, layered, rich, and deeply savory with a lot of complexity from the seasoning. Most importantly, there was absolutely none of the metallic taste that usually comes with liver, which tells me the kitchen really knows how to prepare it properly. The bread was warmed rather than toasted, and while I personally prefer a little less bread so the flavor of the meat comes through even stronger, the bread had absorbed the juices and spices well and gave it a very authentic street-food feel. The kofta platter was also excellent and clearly not generic gyro-shop food. The seasoning profile was warmer, smokier, and more spice-forward, and the tahini paired really well with the grilled meat and rice. I also tried the Om Ali dessert, which tasted rich, homemade, and authentic. The cream, butter, coconut, and almonds gave it a rustic comfort-food quality that felt much more traditional than a polished American dessert. Overall, this restaurant feels like a real Egyptian kitchen preserving its identity instead of watering everything down for mass appeal. The Alexandrian liver alone is worth coming back for

I've never had a bad or mediocre meal here. Yesterday I tried their hummus and oh wow! Some of the…read morebest hummus I've had! I've had their beef shawarma, gyro, lamb chops. They're all amazing!! Did I mention. The lamb chops? Lol This gem here is amazing!

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Philomena Egyptian - Chicken Shish Kebab Lamb Chop Lamb Mix Shish Kebab

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Epice - Kibbeh- Crisp Spiced Sirloin, Bulgar Wheat, Cucumber Yogurt and Aleppo

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4.4(541 reviews)
8.9 mi•12 South
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Oh my gosh. If food was rated on an energetic level, then Epice is a neutron bomb. Every bite was…read morebursting with flavor. Fresh and delicious. Our ten-year-old son finished his meal and let the owner know that he deserves a Michelin star.... Having grown up in the Middle East, this is the real deal. We went twice in 24 hours, because there's nothing like Epice anywhere in the continental United States. Enjoy!

This family owned Lebanese bistro is located on 12 South. They serve classic Lebanese dishes like…read moreGrape Leaves, Charred Eggplant, Soups, Salads, Lamb, Hummus, Za'atar, Shawarma, Tawook, Fish Tacos and more. Keep in mind that they have different menus according to Dinner, Lunch and Weekend Brunch. They offer plenty of Vegan and Vegetarian dishes. This is a Scratch kithen and you can tell by the fresh Ingredients and vibrant colors of the food. The interior of the restaurant feels modern and classy with skylights to let in the natural light. The staff are very friendly and the service is very good. The dress code is Smart Casual. They also offer a full bar along with an extensive European wine list. If you're looking for a great date night spot or a weekend brunch, this would be a nice option. The food and the ambiance go hand in hand. I would recommend making reservations as it can get very busy at peak hours. To finish the review-- Parking situation-- There is limited street parking, Pay to park lots and you can park at Sevier Park which is a short walk to the restaurant and it's free. Enjoy!!

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Epice - Interior design

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Epice - Mishwe

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Epice - Part of the main dining area- We were there first people there at 11:00. When we left about 12:15 it was getting very busy

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Part of the main dining area- We were there first people there at 11:00. When we left about 12:15 it was getting very busy

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