Best Neighborhood Gem Restaurants in Framingham

Our server, Quincy,was outstanding! He made sure we thoroughly enjoyed our meal and visit. Great food as always!

We were really pleased with the food. We kept our order simple by taking them up on their pre-packaged "works" offering - $50/pp (2 min) which included several starters and assorted grilled kebabs over rice plus dessert. Their take on baba ganoush was excellent - I make the stuff myself, and I'm pretty pleased with mine...Theirs was better. In fact better than I've had from anywhere else. The humus was also excellent as were the grape leaves. The kibbe was exceptional both as to ratio of meat to grain and also texture and flavor. Fattoush salad, labne - everything on the table was exemplary. Honestly, I'm a tough grader and this stuff was far better than expected and worth a trip there all by itself. Then the grilled meats - the lamb, the chicken, the kofta (really interesting) all excellent as well. Some nice grilled veg as well. The rice was the only let-down, and frankly at this point with their overachievement everywhere else - who cares? Dessert included was baklava - a good example, but not a highlight for me. Bottom line for me is these folks know how to cook, seem to have some real tradition driving their recipes (as they are distinctive), and offered way more quality and quantity (did I mention quantity) than expected. My cocktail was also good, btw. I am mostly disappointed by suburban restaurants, but not so this time. This discerning diner will definitely return.

Great overall experience and wonderful meal! It was a special occasion so we asked for a couple of extra requests (private table, special drinks), and the staff could not have been more helpful.

We had dinner there Saturday night and it was awesome. It was our first time there as we are new to the area. The food was wonderful, the mussels were great and we also enjoyed the scallops and Sheppard’s Pie. The ambience was great in the bar with the fire going. Our server Ally was really good and extremely helpful giving us ideas for dinner. It was a wonderful evening and we can’t wait to come back!

Went to have a bite before going to TCAN concert. It was only a block away food great choice for food, service, and ambience. I would definitely recommend going there.