Great place to eat and hangout by Joey

I take my chaldean friend there all the time for his bday or just when we're craving some great middle eastern food. Also, i don't ever smoke in my life and i hate the smell of cigarettes but the pleasant smells from the various hookah flavors always entice me to try them. This place always makes me wanna come back the next day and I would if it were free :)

by janelle p.

After eating at Fruicota, TJ stated, "They need to put those restaurants all over the country.  It would totally reduce crime.  I mean, no one who eats there would want to commit a crime afterwards, knowing that was their last meal on the outside!"That just about sums it up.At first glance, I thought I'd found a unique new hangout.  I could get free WiFi with my fattoush, or play chess while sipping on a smoothie.  Then I ate the second-worst Middle Eastern meal I've had in my life, and I realized that Fruicota's food is as much a mess as the horrid green and orange interior decorating, or the multitude of neon signs in the window proclaiming the presence of 20 hookah flavors.Now, I have nothing against hookah lounges.  But I don't appreciate when someone's smoking a hookah that smells more of cigarette than of fruit at 1:00 in the afternoon while I'm trying to eat a lunch.  There's a time and place for everything.  1:00 p.m. in a restaurant-trying-to-be-a-coffee-shop is neither the time, nor the place, for a hookah.They have a 2 for $5.99 offer (I say "offer" because it's not a "deal"--a "deal" is something worth more than you paid) on sandwiches.  Expecting a glorious shawarma, TJ and I ordered two sammys for there, two for the road.  Of our four pitiful pitas, the chicken cream chop was the only decent one of the bunch.  But it tasted more like fried chicken from Kentucky than from Lebanon.The photo of the strawberry crepe tempted me.  Of course, this was before we tasted the sandwiches--had it been after, I wouldn't have ordered the crepe even if it came with a $500 bill tucked inside.Like so many other great ideas without proper execution, Fruicota slips into two-star-land.  I'm taking bets on how much longer the place will be open.