Marilda Café & Restaurant — Restaurant in Yerevan

Weird enough that as a person who's always hanging in the city center and knows all it's corners and moreover, hidden places to drink and dine I missed out this Syrian place, which is actually in a very active area. Unfortunately I think the fact that it is located under a not so friendly looking soviet building, which is always under a shade, it remains kind of unnoticed.

Anyway I tried several dishes there considered as Middle Eastern fast food and was pretty ok with the quality and the price.

The menu is actually very wide, has also polularized stuff like pizzas, club sandwiched and cordon Bleu.

Prices on everything we're pretty reasonable, especially comparing with growing prices in Yerevan. The menu, printed on a thick paper, which looks pretty expand actually pretty worn out, shows that the prices have changed several times, because some of them are written on a white tape. This always means that the place came into market a bit underpriced or is long in the market.

Some prices are weird, like Garlic sauce is 800 AMD, which usually is around 600, but simultaneously, they have a Chi Kofte prices 2400, which in other places in around 4000 AMD and a Lahmajun priced 400.

Also when ordering lebanese vodka be attentive, because they charge around 500 for water, which usually comes mixed with vodka and is included in price.

Some things in Menu, like Eastern desserts and certain types of barbeques should be pre-ordered, which gives a hope that they'll be good.

Anyway a place I'll definitely come back to and check for more to see if it's a hidden place because it wants so, or people decided so because its not...

The meat dishes are delicious and they are authentically Syrian 🇸🇾 (5/5).

The salads are nothing short of a disaster (1/5). They remind me of salads I once tried in a funeral hall in Yerevan.

The so called coleslaw consists of sliced cabbage and a huge amount of industrial mayonnaise (practically inedible).

The so called baba ghanouj is in fact peeled roasted eggplant with some raw tomatoes and slivers of dill (zero herbs 🌿 , spice 🌶 or condiments in any salad).

The service is fast but it is too laid back and noisy.

The waitress shouts to the kitchen staff and guy behind the cashier in a very loud voice with absolutely no consideration to customers (they make you feel you are sitting in their living room and it is 2 past midnight on a new year's eve after everyone had many rounds of vodka).

The yoghurt drink was lukewarm (never a good thing, especially in June) and the glasses smelled like dust (they are probably kept inside a dusty cupboard).

The prices are lower than most restaurants at this central location which probably explains the high rating but I value cleanliness above all else so I will not repeat...

The food was mediocre, I tried the hummus, yalangi and fried chicken, the hummus was average, felt like a canned hummus you would make at home if you were in a rush, the yalangi had way too much rice in it, felt as if your eating a sushi, and the fried chicken was decent but it was very salty. In the advertisements, the food looked much better than in reality.

The service wasn’t great, the servant was taking our order and suddenly she left us hanging and went to the other table. She was also very ignorant, she didn’t say a word or anything and just left our table. Then we asked her if what milkshakes there are and she replied by saying that she doesn’t know while that’s her responsibility.

The atmosphere was below average, because the place was very small, the tables were dusty, and the place...