Al Sultan
“Hello, hello, welcome, welcome,” friendly words that come with a handshake from the owner as you enter. Dave, him and I are on first names basis, comes up and will always give a kind smile and a puny handshake. Al Sultan in Garden City on Inkster Road just north of Cherry Hill Rd. and on the east side of the street offers excellent Middle Eastern cuisine with affordable price tagging along with it. As soon as you are greeted and take a look around this small restaurant you noticed the several murals. These murals consists of vast deserts with aboriginal women dressed proper seen sometimes with buckets or walking next a camel. Middle Eastern culture is even more accentuated by the music playing while eating. The constant beat with the occasional syncopated noted that keeps you on your heels of the darabukas, Middle Eastern drums, in the music combined with a calming chant in a native tongue will enhance your mood and immediately you will feel welcomed.
Now let’s get to the good stuff, the meal! Once seated your waitress, there are no waiters, will present a basket of pita bread along with a plate of pepperonicini and sliced beets. Thus following, a question about your drink leaves you puzzled once you realize the fresh juice that is offered there along with Middle Eastern coffee and Pepsi products. The freshly ground orange, apple, carrot, peach, and Al Sultan special are just a few of their delicacies that are in their fresh juice array. When returned with your drinks, you are asked courteously, “You ready to order?” Whenever attending the first thing that you must order is the hummus. The ground chick peas with tahini sauce and other ingredients giving the taste of garlic and a little hint of lemon and many other tastes impossible to describe combined with its smooth, creamy peanut butter like consistency makes it a favorite by almost all. This will be brought to your table in about two to five minutes once your waitress leaves your table. The dish brought back has the hummus along with four slices of beats, each spaced equally apart, and a touch of parsley in the center. A big scoop is a necessity and should be followed with pita bread taking a massive dip into the hummus. If there is any left over take it home! I’m one for breaking food borders and believe me tortilla chips and hummus is delicious. If you weren’t ready to order earlier the waitress will ask if you are ready aft
er about five minutes you have dug into the dish of hummus. For those that have never eaten Arabic on the menu they go into vast description of their meals. They divide the menu into appetizers, salads, main entrees, and sandwiches. Many things their consist of many meats such as chicken, lamb, and beef but, for those vegetarians you can make everything into just veggies of have even seafood put in there. At this time I ordered the Shish Tawook dinner. It arrived much faster than it should be and made myself felt bombarded with the food set forth in front of me. Even though my mental clock was discombobulated the food set forth on the table straightened it out. Then perfect sized cubes of chicken, grilled to the point of perfection with it being completely cooked and was almost as juicy as a fruit. The chicken, accompanied by vegetable such as onions and tomatoes, can be meshed perfectly together in the pita bread given earlier and if re
quested and should be requested garlic sauce. Along with the dish comes a large heaping of white rice that also can be put into your sandwich but is still delicious eaten alone. The heaping given forth was given in the right amount of filling a person up but not overstuffing yourself at the table. The total cost of this meal, with tip, was a measly $20! This restaurant is a perfect family style restaurant just based on the price alone but, it also gives delicious food and if you are on the go it doesn’t occupy all of your day. The swiftness was highlighted by no reservation was needed and it isn’t recommended because you are always seated immediately and is easily handicap accessible. All in all, I have referred this restaurant to many friends that were ignorant to Middle Eastern cuisine and have left the restaurant wanting another Chicken Shawarma the following week. Now excuse me, I’m off to eat my hummus and tortilla chips while watching college football.
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18 comments:
Many people I know are big fans of this restaurant and eat there all the time. I have never been here, nor have I ever eaten the type of food served here. You did a great job of formatting your review. I love how you formatted the pictures, changed the fonts and colors to make it more invitable to read. Maybe I will try this restaurant out someday! Good job!
I've never heard of this restaurant but I do love arabic food. I'll have to try it. Your review was nice but wasn't in paragraphs. I liked your quote at the beginning, it was an oringal start.
Your review was intriguing from the start to the end. I've never been to a middle eastern cuisine restaurant, but now I definitely want to visit this place. I enjoyed the way you described the place and the food. Great job!
I have not actually ate a whole Arabic meal before. I find it interesting that the restaurant plays Middle Eastern music because many restaurants that serve foregin foods fail to play the accompanying music to the theme. Your pictures match your review perfectly and you details are also great. Your explanation of the food makes it sound really good and the prices are great. I also like how they put descriptions of the meals on the menu because I have no idea what any Arabic food is like. Overall, your review was very informing and you did a great job presenting the information.
The begining of the review is engaging by showing how polite and welcoming the resturant is. I like how you talked about and described the owner. You did a great job of detaling the mood and letting the reader feel the atmosphere. There really isin't that much ican say to improve it because it seems to me that you have all the information covered. Lastly, your pictures, especially the first one are great at showing what kind of resturant it is.
This place sounds awesome! I am a huge fan of Middle Eastern food, especially hummus. I would love to visit this establishment based on your experience. You made it sound very, much-so worth every penny! Great job with details and describing your service. The pictures made it all that much more appetizing! Good Job!
You're review made me want to visit. I have eaten at some good Middle Eastern Restaurants and some fake Middle Eastern Restaurants. When you talk about the fresh juice, the humous and the rest of the food it makes my mouth water and crave some food from Al Sutan.
I love arabic food and this resturant has some of the best i've ever tasted. Your review was really good, i thought you had great pictures, and they were spaced out well.
I have never heard of this restaurant before but from your review it seems very delicious. I like how you incorporated quotes into the review to give the reader the full restaurant experience. Overall, it was very well organized and provided adequate details that described the food and surroundings very well. It seems like an awesome place to visit
This was a very lengthy description of the restaurant, which wasn't a bad thing in itself. Just mentioning that overall your grammar could have been improved and I feel that it detracted from the presentation of the restaurant that you were trying to get across. The description of everything from the restaurant to the food was understandable. It was just getting past the wording usage that slowed the review to a degree.
I have never been to Al Sultan before so I was especially interested in your review. I loved the description of the meal, and the pita bread and hummus. I also liked how in depth you were about the service you received, as well as the over all cost.
Your review was very fun to read and your descriptions were good. The food sounds good and the staff seems friendly. I liked your description of the hummus because it was a good use of the five senses. I enjoyed the description of the music. it set a good mood for the review.
I have never had Middle eastern food before but your review make it sound very good. You included many good details about the food like what was in it had how it tasted. The pictures are very good and the way you described one of the plates was so good I dont think you even needed a picture of it. Good job on the review.
I have never heard of this restaurant and when it comes to arabic food i am very very picky. But you made the food sounds very good and i am almost willing to give it a try now after reading your review. I also think it's awesome that they play the music that matches the food they are serving. very cool.
Well first off, I love the sultan. Ive been there a few times and I have to admit, the food is great. Everything about this review was amazing, from the details used to describe the food to the way the restaurant looked with the pictures on the walls. You did a good job describing the service too. There were a couple of grammatical errors but nothing serious. All in all, I have to say, well done. As a matter of fact, Im thinking of going there this weekend myself.
I've been to many Middle Eastern restaurants, but yet have to try Al Sultan. I liked how you started the review. I also liked how you described the hummus and the way it's made. I liked the suggestion you gave to try tortilla chips, I need to do that one day. The images were nice and big. Very well done. Did not see any errors.
A very good description of the food and the restaurant. Some of the sentences were clunky and had grammatical mistakes, however the content of the review was top notch and more than made up for those errors. The food itself sounds really good.
Great paper, as always :] I was interested in what you had to say about this restaurant until the very last word. I really liked how you added your opinions, like when you said to take the hummus home if you dont finish. You used really good descriptive details when describing the food and convinced me to try this place. Great review :]
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