by Eric K.
The food here is mediocre at best, but the other aspects of the place make it a pretty cool spot. After being told that it was BYOB when calling ahead, we stopped and picked up a few bottles of wine. Fine with me, save a few bucks. Then when we finished dinner, beers started magically apearing on our table. They only made us pay for half of them, so I wasn't complaining. The hookahs were really good. I'm not a huge hookah smoker, but I've done it enough times to say that this was the most flavorful hookah I've ever smoked. Keeping to the theme of hooking us up with free things, we bought 2 hookahs and they gave us two for free.Then there was the belly dancers. Out of nowhere came girls dancing half naked in the middle of the restaraunt. It was a cool idea for a Mediterranean restaurant. One of the dancers even dropped some sort of clothing that looked like it belonged on her crouch on my buddies lap. Probably would have given this place 3 stars, but all the free stuff pushed it to 4.
by Tom C.
Prior to showing up, I had no clue this place was essentially half-club, half-restaurant. Let's be honest, the food isn't' great. And it's never impressive when a seafood joint leaves the shrimp off your shrimp penne a la vodka. (To their credit they did catch their own mistake and bring me a side plate of shrimp). But for what this place is - which turns out to be some bizarre mix of hookah bar/lounge/restaurant/dance club/NYU hang-out - it's pretty good. About 20 minutes after sitting down, a barrage of belly dancers materialized out of nowhere. The jury is out on whether this was awesome or simply distracting, but it certainly got my attention.The music was blasting - way too loud for any normal dinner. Do not go here on a first date. What appeared to be the owners son, AKA master DJ, was holed up in the corner of establishment sans turntables unleashing his middle-eastern iPod playlist on the crowd.We stayed for a few hours. The hookahs were great. It was BYOB which was fine, but they ended up serving us from some private stash anyway. Too bad the beers were warm - that is not cool. Seriously.
