Lacto
Ovo
Beer/Wine
Take-out
Middle Eastern
Honey
Breakfast
Syrian
Non-veg

Serves meat, vegan options available. Syrian restaurant serving vegan dishes such as falafel sandwich, beans with tomato paste, okra with rice, muhammara, grape leaves stuffed with rice, lentil soup, hummus, baba ghanoush, and salads. Specify vegan when ordering. Open Mon-Sun 9:00am-10:00pm.


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8 Reviews

First Review by merryvegan

Carrohugo

Points +20

Vegan
22 Jul 2025

Amazing food

Very tasty and friendly staff!

My general experience in Albania is that you have to specify no cheese, no yogurt, etc for every single meal. It’s rarely enough to say it once for one meal. And better safe than sorry - say it even if it doesn’t say cheese on the menu. Very often they put it on top for decoration.

I didn’t have any issues at this restaurant. But after reading other people’s comment, I just wanna share that it’s at least for me been a very common ”issue” here in Albania

Pros: Food - simply amazing and authentic , Staff

ratgirl1979

Points +59

Vegan
10 Jul 2025

Excellent food and good mix of vegan options

Good value food and easy to pick vegan options on the menu. The muhammara was outstanding - I could eat buckets of it!

Pros: Excellent fresh food, Decent amount of vegan options

Cons: Busy and only one person serving

Schifi09

Points +1862

Vegan
28 Jun 2025

Vegan options available

Very tasty food, vegan options available

Sabine_P

Points +17

Vegan
14 Oct 2024

Good service and food

Good food options, easy to understand what was vegan, tasty food and lovely staff

Pra

Points +557

Vegetarian
09 Oct 2024

Not worth it

The bread was boring, stale and tasteless, the muhammara was the worst I have ever had. The falafel sandwich was nothing special

B_O

Points +2880

Vegan
08 Jul 2024

Incredible food, bad service

Edit after a total three visits: definitely not going back. Huge shame.

The first time we went for lunch – and it was wonderful: very friendly and helpful service, delicious food; no problems whatsoever. Absolutely delightful!

The second time, we had dinner there: The waiter tried to be helpful, but the ordering process was confusing (it was not a language problem!), and although we had said SEVERAL times very clearly that we did not eat cheese, milk, butter, eggs etc., there was yoghurt in the ful AND they brought out a salad with grated cheese on top. To be clear, there is NO mention of cheese in the menu: It says the salad contains: rucola/rocket/arugula, tomato, onions, tahini, walnuts. But there was zero tahini in the salad and, instead, mystery cheese...?! The waiter apologised and offered to remove it.

Third time: dinner again. We very VERY clear about not wanting dairy AND about wanting to try something new. Nevertheless, they ended up bringing the SAME salad, and again with the surprise cheese on top. When we asked the waitress, she too apologised and offered to remove it, replying "the cheese is just for decoration!". But she didn't seem to see the issue and simply shrugged it off saying that the printed menus were old and needed to be changed. When asked about the missing tahini, she said that tahini simply means "sauce" and in this case lemon and olive oil dressing, i.e. nothing to do with sesame seeds...? Come on, just admit that you don't know, or at least go and ask the kitchen staff.

There are several different rice options: mandi, kabsa and biryani. Having ordered biryani (the "old" menu weirdly says that it contains milk...) on our second visit, we stressed that we wanted something different for our third time there. The waitress, upon seeing a photo, said that the previous time we had probably been given kabsa by mistake, so she had us order biryani. It turned out to be the exact same dish as the 2nd time. When we asked about it, her explanations were odd and contradictory; you could tell she had no clear idea what she was talking about. And again, it was NOT a language issue.

All in all not a MASSIVE problem, but it was wholly unnecessary and pretty frustrating, and the justifications just felt a bit confused and dishonest. Why not simply say "I don't know, let me check"? The food itself is great, and maybe if you order EVERY SINGLE ITEM explicitly with no surprise pop-up dairy, you might get a delicious meal – with a bit of luck!

Updated from previous review on 2024-07-08

Pros: Excellent food (the stuff that's ACTUALLY vegan)

Cons: Dairy ingredients NOT labelled in the menu!, Always double-check when ordering, SOME waiters seem confused about the ingredients..

Ale82V

Points +224

Vegan
30 Mar 2024

Amazing Lebanese dinner

Hummus, falafel, muhammara, lentil soup and more over.
Everything very good.

merryvegan

Points +33

Vegan
02 Nov 2023

Yum

Perfect hummus and delicious falafels, tabbouleh salad very parsley heavy.

Pros: Delicious food , Good for sharing , Friendly staff




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