Aladdin Mediterranean Grill

good food, good atmosphere, poor/​bad service

From outside it looks like a very small cornered place but it has a good capacity with Mediterranean food and has some varieties displayed to take away and small grocery store for items related to this kind of food and some bar section which can light up this place in the night with hookah… worth visiting at least not in regular basis

Service was terrible.
Tsasiki sauce was of poor quality .
Sides came out before meal…
Definitely won’t be coming back.

Came here for lunch after church while visiting on vacation. I ordered the lamb shawarma wrap with Greek salad. The food was mediocre because it had an overpowering amount of curry spices on the meat. The baba ganoush my friend ordered was not tasteful at all as it left a bad after taste in my mouth from trying it. The hummus on the other hand was very delicious but still overpowering on the garlic. The service was very slow especially being that the restaurant wasn’t so busy. Overall, the food was okay, but the service could’ve been faster. I think it would give the outdoor atmosphere a boast if you would play some music outside.

The food is always consistently great. Staff is friendly. I am a big fan of their falafel wrap. The falafels are always perfectly crisped. Overall you’ll find a big selection of authentic Middle Eastern food. As far a price goes, I think it’s very reasonable.

Very good! A friend told me about it, can’t believe I have been missing out on it for years.
Huge menu, lots of vegetarian options. Had lebneh and lamb shawarma. Both came with nice homemade pickles and vegetables. Shawarma on lavaash instead of pita… nice change.
Friendly servers. I’ll have to hit Northlake more often!

Went before Happy Hour. Food was very good, staff was Friendly. The Lamb Shwarma was amazing and so was the Mediterranean salad. Everything was good and reasonably priced.

Worst food ever. awful lamb platter. terrible lamb chops. worst arabic food ever. never ever ever coming here again.

I was there for dinner today. I do not understand all the other high ratings. First thing though is that if you are going to go, it is located in the very last space of the strip to the west (your right side) when your looking at Home Depot. You can easily miss it as its tucked way back there and all the other stores have a 3900 # and your looking for 3800 #. I ALMOST drove away thinking it was closed as their phone also was not taking calls.
That said these are the reasons for the low score:
1. I ordered the shawarma plate. Shawarma is generally carved from the spit, and it resembles meat more or less the size and shape you find find in fajitas. They are usually 3 – 4 inches long or more by ¾ inch wide or so. They are hand cut with a knife off the rotating spit. I wanted to make sure I wasnt missing something so I went to images dot google dot com and entered SHAWARMA. You will see loads of pictures of cutting meat off a spit. This meat was tiny pieces. When it first arrived I thought it was ground meat! However it wasnt ground but it was very tiny little pieces and they appeared to be pan fried in oil with spices. I have ordered shawarma in many middle eastern restaurants all over and it never looked like this.
2. The menu offers walnut or pistachio baklava. I ordered walnut. Out came pistachio. I dont think the help has any idea what walnuts or pistachios are. Anyone with even the most basic knowledge of middle eastern food knows the one with the green sprinkled cut up nets is the pistachio. I dont even believe any of the help I encountered was middle eastern. Restaurants are a hard business as it is but when you have any ethnic food with the majority of help of other ethnicy your odds are not in your favor.
3. The service seemed to be a bit haphazard. Whomever was available came your way.
4. The worst thing: I had finished eating and had been waiting some time for them to take the plate and offer desert or the check. It was a busy Sat night. So then all of a sudden I hear a yell from behind me. Sir are your ready for your check? No eye contact at all. He isnt even at my table. I turn around completely and see a bus boy cleaning the table behind me and he is yelling this out to me while picking up another group of diners dirty dishes. Whoa! This was something that is totally unacceptable. You have some amateur kids working here. No wonder foreigners hate eating in the USA when they get this type of service and then they expect nice tips to boot!
You can generally feel a quality restaurant when your in one, and I didnt feel it at all here.

This was the BEST Arabic restaurant I’ve ever been to. I am so glad I discovered this place through
. I was never a big fan of lamb but after tasting my family’s lamb dishes, lamb kabob and lamb shawarma, I fell in love. All the meat, chicken as well, was so tender and tasty. If I had to find a problem, it would be the rareness of the lamb kabobs. My mother asked for them to be well done but they were still pink inside, not enough to send it back though. I live about 40 minutes away but I will definitely be returning.

Just ate here about an hour and half ago with my boyfriend! Food is delicious! Ordered Emily’s special and my boyfriend ordered lamb with pita or something like that. Were greeted immediately by Sean who was very nice! Then a young woman came to take care of us. And I feel bad because I don’t remember her name. She was very nice and very patient while my boyfriend and I were taking forever to order. Thank you for the great food and experience.

Great place. Small but authentic. Very cozy. Food was fresh and tasted great. Will come back to try more things.
Best of all was the pistachio baklava. I love mediterranean food and this baklava was the best I’ve had in a long time.
Servers were very nice always asking if we needed anything else.

I love lemon broth soup, sorry I don’t know the proper name. I had it at Aladdin today and it was awful! I only had one bite and threw it away, not so much a broth but a creamy thick soup YUCK! I won’t be going back!

Aladdin is tucked away in a strip mall, but don’t let that turn you away. The menu is a bit foreign to most people I know, but our party of six wanted to give it a try. Our waitress was great. She walked us trough a lot of the items we weren’t familiar with. We split a couple of entrees. grilled octopus, which was very tasty, and fried calamari, which frankly looked like they came out of a the freezer section of a Publix supermarket.
We all enjoyed our entrees, all come with a very nice Greek salad. I had the spicy grilled Grouper which was served with rice and delicious mixed vegetables. The lamb shank was enjoyed by two of our party. They said it was tender and the gravy vegetable medley and rice was very tasty. My wife loved the shrimp shish-​kabobs, and the chicken entrees were also gobbled up. We ordered a few bottles of a Spanish white wine, which were okay.
Next thing we knew we were being entertained by a belly dancer who was quite talented, and very sweet as she attempted to teach my wife a few giggles, which I was all in favor of. Prices were reasonable. Our bill was a bit over $ 60 per couple ($ 24 of which was wine.)
Parking is easy, service great, and the outdoor seating, while not especially scenic, was peasant.

Pretty relaxed atmosphere, indoor & outdoor seating, extensive and reasonably priced menu! I had the Schwarma app, falafel balls and the spanakopita salad. All very tasty! and the falafel were perfect-​just how I remember them from my favorite spot NYC! The desserts all look absolutely amazing too!

The Service is slow and the food come out after 20 +min for the price they ask is high and the food Quality is not so good and they really not Mediterranean taste.

I come here sometimes with my mom when I visit her in Palm Beach. It’s in the back west corner of the shopping plaza. It’s not super nice, sort of a cozy little hole in the wall but I always leave satisfied. They have indoor and outdoor seating available.
When I come here I get the same thing religiously which is the chicken gyro. It’s very big and tastes great. If you are looking for a good casual mediterranean restaurant, this is your spot.

Stopped in for some authentic Mediterranean eats. Very casual atmosphere. Indoor and outdoor seating available. Bustling lunch crowd on Sunday afternoon.
Ordered a modified veggie sampler with falafel, (swapped Greek salad for Mediterranean making it vegan), $ 13.50. Falafel had a nice crunch, tabuli and Mediterranean salad were fresh and tasty! Will return :)
A couple suggestions – play greek or middle eastern music instead of top 40, to give customers a more authentic experience… and PLEASE CLEAN YOUR FISH TANK.

I can’t believe we had to go on vacation to find delicious Lebanese/​Mediterranean food! Mom with her
deals led us to this tiny hole in the wall. We even had to call them to back track… next to Home Depot and a pizzeria.
Walked in and the place was empty. Hesitated for ½ a second and glad we decided to stay!
Mom had the advertised ribeye special. It came covered with a chimicuri sauce that was bright green and 3 large shrimp on a skewer. She did not want rice so she chose the tabbouleh and the greek salads. (She did not like the tabbouleh but luckily her daughter did!). The steak was very succulent and delicious! Came with some grilled veggies that Mom ate up despite saying she was full after finishing the GIANT greek salad they placed in front of her!
Dad and I both chose the Deluxe kabobs over rice. ($ 20) Came with lamb, chicken and 2 kafta kabobs. We both chose humus as a side, he wanted garlic potatoes and I got what turned out to be the biggest greek salad ever! The lamb was cooked perfectly. The chicken was juicy and the kaftas were so yummy heated up the next day and dipped in tzatziki sauce.
My sister rocked and chose a chicken gyro value meal which came with ½ a greek salad and a soda for $ 10. She really didn’t need to order anything and could have just shared with me and Dad!
I have to give props on these sides. They were not small. There were more like an appetizer. So imagine two large servings of humus and pita. Nothing fancy. Just blitz chickpeas, lemon and topped with olive oil. So yummy! We ate one and took one home. The greek salad was not a side salad. It was a dinner salad. It come on a dinner plate and was covered with this delicious dressing which was a cross between ranch and something greek. The romaine was perfectly bite size. There were white onions, black olives, juicy red tomatoes and even a hot pepper.
By the time we left, there were 3 other tables. I heard one guy tell his family that he had come there for lunch and brought them to try this place.
We took home a slice of pistachio baklava and a lady finger. They had given us a little cup of rose water sugar but Mom didn’t want to use it. Mom enjoyed the desserts as no one else wanted to try them with her.
We had a cute young girl as our server. She was great. We asked her what she liked and the kabobs rocked! I understand on the weekends they have belly dancing… wished we could have seen that too!

As a Lebanese girl, I wanted to show my boyfriend the taste of my country. I wasn’t expecting too much from a Lebanese restaurant in the US, but to my great surprise it was actually as good as a local restaurant in Beirut. We really enjoyed the food and the atmosphere. It’s a cozy place, especially for a date.
I was also very happy to drink an Almaza beer after a long time!