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Dave -
4 years ago
Absolutely NOT a middle Eastern restaurant.
This is a cheap dodgy 3star hotel attempt at a Middle Eastern themed restaurant. Music that is far too loud, lights that are far too bright, furniture that is far to garish. Chicken Kebob and middleeast matabak and middle east nasi goreng says it all.
Just to be fair we ordered a mango lassi, which was not bad for a mango syrup milkshake, if only that was what we had ordered... The food took so long and the music got so loud we gave up and left ... I don't think a middle Eastern person has ever stepped foot into this restaurant, or if they did they ran away fast and certainly none ever worked in the kitchen. In fact I don't think anyone who has ever been to the middle east was even involved, which is surprising given how many people have been on haj or studied in the middle east, and how much middle Eastern money has been invested in yogya.
If you wanna see what a 3star hotel owner fantasises about the middle east on a bad night, then drop on by, it's entertaining but it's more a weird theme park gone wrong than a restaurant. Imagine a brightly lit school class room that some children helped their fathers design based on what they saw on a TV show... Then throw in some completely inappropriate and loud karaoke style music that their dad's chose and then imagine their mum being asked to cook something middle Eastern so they could have a middle east themed party for their aunts and uncles...
Yup you got it
I'm not normally so scathing but someone screaming out a poor rendition of 'twist and shout', while I sit under bright fluro lights, till I am forced to give up waiting to be served, isn't my definition of middle eastern hospitality or service