Al Wadi Cafe

My wife and I have been eating here for years, and we can always count on an excellent meal and friendly service from wonderful people. This is one of those great neighborhood places that you keep coming back to and never get tired of.
My two favorite dishes here are the shawarma combo and the falafel wrap. Other notable standouts are the gyro and the chicken kabob dinner. Really, you can’t go wrong with anything on the menu. I’m planning on trying everything eventually!

I absolutely love their Sunday Buffet. The selection of meats, veggies and spreads are delicious. So is the dessert bar. I’ll be back again for sure

Wow. Excellent food. Small and quaint but really good. Service was friendly.
As always stupid app wants a longer review, don’t really know what else to say so now I’m just writing whatever comes to mind in order to make this review long enough.

Great food. This place was recommended to us by Lebanese friends so we went for it. Great food and great service. Try the baklava (dessert), is the best I’ve had.

Great service and delicious food. What are you waiting for? If you are in the area and craving some delicious food, definitely give this place a try. We love how nothing was salty and really enjoyed their sampler appetizer. The sampler came with hummus, baba ghanouj, falafel, kibbeh, two types of sambousik (cheese and beef), tabbouleh, stuffed grape leaves, and pita breads. We came on a Saturday for lunch, so wasn’t able to try their buffet. We will definitely be back on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Sunday for their lunch buffet!

My boss actually took me here for lunch and they were having the lunch buffet at the time and the selection was awesome and very fresh! They had some pasta dishes and I was expecting it to be good but boy was I wrong! I loved it all! the hummus was wonderful, there was also some beef wrapped in grape leaves that I could spend all day eating. Pretty much everything on the line was wonderful and I didn’t feel guilty leaving a lunch buffet at all!

I am Lebanese and I am thrilled that Finally there is a restaurant that represents the true flavors and textures that Lebanese food is. Plus now I don’t have to cook everything myself. We moved to this area from Washington DC and I had lost faith in finding a good Lebanese restaurant till we found this gem. If you want real Lebanese this is your place

I’ve been this place for lunch several time, the buffet is the best Medi in mid cities area. All cooked with extreme care. Best hummus hands down, meat are all fresh.
Love they have a great vege collection which prevents you from dominating by the heavy stuff.
However, the collection is still somewhat small, I would like to pay more to see more coming.
At $ 10, you can’t beat it

Excellent food! We came here about 3pm on Saturday and the place was not super busy. Service was prompt and friendly. We had the sampler appetizer that comes with a bit of everything. It was so good! Then the hubby and I ordered Falafels and they were warm, moist, and delicious! I would come back.

I love this place. I was pleasantly surprised my first time to find that their gyro meat isn’t the pre-​formed, sickle shaped, fast food gyro meat that several other restaurants use (ahem, Stratos). They actually give too much meat in the gyro for my taste but I’m sure its perfect for most people. The hummus is great — just ask for lemons. They also have a nice home made feta dressing for their salads. I’ve never been to the buffet, this is just the place I go to when I’m jonesing for a gyro. Service is fine– water glass stays full, and they check on you often. Be sure to stop by the grocery store next door! They’ve got sauerkraut and pickled things from Germany and Poland, canned dolmas, peppers in oil and all kinds of goodies that costs a LOT more at the super market.

First and last visit here. Was not impressed with my pick of lamb/​beef plate with a so so salad. Wife did not eat very much of her beef what ever and she was not impressed with salad also. My big plate of rice and lamb/​beef came with only one pita bread. Meat was overcooked on one side — dark and dry other side light in color? Wife’s plate no pita bread. Sauce that was to be yogurt/​cucumber was the worst we have ever had at a Mediterranean restaurant. One star would have been chosen, but we had a great waitress. Do not give many bad reviews so this must have been awfull to us. Just not our taste maybe yours though.

What a gem! Great place and friendly owners. Great buffet, especially if you are on a low carb diet. Lots of tasty meat and veggie items to choose from. The best tabouli I have ever had. But your low carb diet will be put to the test by the desserts. The baklava and rice pudding are out of this world. Even the cops come here for the buffet.

Great little Mediterranean buffet in the HEB area. I didn’t know what to expect when I first walked in, but I was pleasantly surprised by the cleanliness (restrooms included) and service of the place. All the workers were friendly and the place was split up into 2 sections, each of which held tables of 4. Very impressed with just the décor and ambiance of the restaurant before I even tried the food!
We got the lunch buffet, so I was able to try a little bit of everything. Some were a bigger hit than others, as with all buffets. I personally enjoyed the Baked Tortellini, Fried Fish, Kafta, Gyro Meat, and cauliflowers. They were all seasoned perfectly and had a lot of flavors and textures. On the flip side, I wasn’t a fan of the Falafel, Shish Kawouk, and the rice in grape leaves. The falafel and Shish Kawouk were extremely dry. They also offer Baklava and Rice Pudding as desserts. None of them were fantastic by any means, but the Baklava was a good ending to a great buffet.
I definitely would recommend this place if you’re feeling Mediterranean. It was $ 12 for me after tax and tip, not bad at all!

I been in Texas for 2 years now and I don’t know why I haven’t heard of this place before
Tried every lebanese cuisine here
This is by far the best
It’s the real deal
Real lebanese fatoush
Perfectly spiced shawama and shish tawoook
I’m definitely coming back !!

The best Mediterranean and Greek restaurant in the HEB area. Bring your Fort Worth Star Telegram Press Pass and get 20% discount off your bill.
The falafel, tabouli and hummus are the best around.
The outdoor patio offers a great option for dinning and smoking the hookah. They offer a nice selection of tobacco flavors.

Great Lebanese/​Greek place in Hurst.
Was visiting TX & tried this with my parents. They have a lunch buffet Tue-​Thur with a nice selection of tasty Mediterranean standards. Nice rice pudding & Baklava for dessert too.
Wish I had a buffet like this where I live.

We came for lunch hoping we would be able to catch the buffet, but unfortunately they only have it on certain days (I don’t remember which).
We ordered off the menu– I got the kafta kebob, which was very flavorful. The pita was soft yet crunchy on the outside. It comes with thick cut fries. We also got the sampler platter — the fried cauliflower was really good. I have also tried their spaghetti and lasagna (it was catered for a work lunch), and although I wouldn’t usually order those unless I was at an Italian restaurant, they are both decent.

Ooooo that brunch buffet we had today (Sunday) was incredible. It’s been 9 hours and I’m still coasting on food glory here. It’s definitely not the biggest Mediterranean buffet I’ve ever been to (in fact, it’s probably the smallest), but stay with me here. Vegetarians and omnivores would both be very, very happy with the fare offered. My first plate was heaped with all vegetarian fare: dolmas, humus, tabouli salad, falafel, delicioussss roasted cauliflower, Greek salad. Didn’t even get make it to the protein before my plate was full. The cauliflower was my favorite. I force fed it to my husband who initially resisted. However, I noticed that it made a special guest appearance on his second plate. As others have mentioned prior, the dolmas are especially delicious.
They had chicken shwarma, gyro meat, and kibbie. They had thick tzatziki sauce, watery tzatziki sauce, tahini sauce, beets, peproncini peppers, pickles and olives for the gyros you can build in the pita triangles (hubby shed a tear on not having full-​sized pita bread).
So there was a label for baba ganoush but it was really another tray of humus. And yeah, you’re not going to be making full-​sized gyros. But guess what?! They actually have desert offered! (Ohhhh take that Chadra Mezza!) Yeah yeah there was a plate of fruit. Who cares? There’s baklava. Rice pudding with pistachio dust sprinkled on top. These weird muffins that are worth skipping. And these… things that the wait staff couldn’t tell me what they are. So allow me to describe in my foodie coma haze: they look like fake dates. They were small, dark, and rolled in coconut and what looked like almonds. But when I cut into it with a fork, the «date» wasn’t sticky. It was crumbly. The «almonds» also broke apart. They were actually cookie balls. I went back and that’s when my husband pulled out the Game of Thrones novel he’s reading. Yes. Take me to a buffet you better keep up or entertain yourself.

The buffet includes the best of what you are looking for in this cuisine. My picky eater went back for thirds.
Chicken, lamb and gyro meat as options and hummus with pita bread. The fried cauliflower was done perfect.
We highly recommend and we will be coming back.

I wanted to try something new so I got a falafel wrap and some dolmas. They were excellent, will return to try other items

Hidden foodie spot. Al Wadie meat salad was delicious. Just in case you didn’t know it’s BYOB!

This is not a bad place at all, but my rating was impacted by limited buffet selection, out of place selections and lack of hot sauce (sambal, chili sauce, red chutney, call it what you will). The good news on that last front is that there’s a Greek grocer that’s literally only footsteps away next door that sells the stuff, although the cheapest jar will cost you about half of your buffet’s price.
The space is small, clean and not very fancy, but fancy wasn’t what I was after. There are a small number of cold dishes that I passed on, including tabbouleh and fresh fruit, but I did try some baba ganoush. It was a little runny, but the flavor was good, with a nice smoky taste. They did have one of my favorite dishes, the «fried even though it doesn’t look fried» cauliflower, and it was quite good, with a texture that was firm but not too firm, and definitely not mushy or dried out.
My other staple is the self-​made gyro, and this worked out somewhat decently. The pita bread isn’t really the pocket style that you’d expect, and it’s cut into quarters, so I had to make a sandwich of sorts. The tzaziki is interesting; as others have noted, it’s made from a thick Greek yogurt, so it’s almost the texture of one of the more soft creamy peanut butters. This is actually a good thing for making these «gyro sandwiches». The shawarma (gyro meat) was fairly good; it seemed to be of good quality except for being a tad dry. All in all, except for the missing chili sauce, it was good.
Some of the other dishes were a bit more of a miss. The so-​called «moussaka» was not what I’m accustomed to seeing; it was more of a stew, and had corn and peas (!) in it. Not bad, but a little strange. Another item offered was cheese tortellini, which was clearly there as a filler. Fried fish pieces seemed to be made from chopped and formed fish rather than filets.
Having said that, there were a couple of familiar standards; kebob meat was pretty good, and a meatball dish featured nice meatballs in a «Mediterranean-​leaning» sauce.
One thing you don’t want to miss, though, is the baklava. It was flaky and delicious.
Again, this place isn’t bad, and prices are reasonable, but don’t expect a huge spread for the buffet. And make sure and bring your own chili sauce if you’re as addicted to the stuff as I am.

This is a Lebanese place. Greek food is similar but I enjoy Lebanese more than Greek.
Lunch buffet was great!
Fresh and tasty

Very disappointing.
Came at 11:30 on Sunday for brunch. Cold food, including the meat. Bone in the gyro meat, nearly broke my tooth! Took 3 bites of meat and diarrhea few hours later.
Loved this place the first time. Really too bad.

This little gem is hidden away in the corner of this little shopping center!
I first came here years ago when they first opened and I got the gyro platter. I was impressed either the generous portion and how tasty it all was.
This location is so close to my house I usually only get take out.. I’ve never actually sat in the restaurant to have a meal :). But im a very repeat take out customer. The lamb is delicious. The Mousaka is highly recommended as well. :)