Yemeni Restaurant — Restaurant in The Hague

An amazing restaurant with authentic Yemeni food. Before eating at this restaurant I had Yemeni food in Yemeni restaurants in Malaysia and the taste of food at this restaurant brings back my sweet memories! We drank Adani tea and ate künafa there. The künafa was so delicious that it became my new favourite. We ordered three main foods for takeaway. Chicken Mandy, Lamb Haneeth and Chicken Haneeth. All three foods were delicious and tasted like authentic Yemeni food I had before. Then I ordered from them for the second time some 4 months later when I came to visit Den Haag again. The food was delivered to my hotel through Uber. This time I ordered a classic and a pistachio künafa, a chicken Mandy, a lamb Haneeth and a Zurbian (lamb) for three people. We also ordered a lever dish and bread. The food takeaway packaging was better and bigger this time. There was a generous amount of food in each dish we ordered. We usually order chicken Mandy mainly because it is non spicy but flavourful. My daughter likes it. The chicken and rice has orange colour probably from saffron but I didn't get any aroma of saffron from it. The Mandy chicken is so well cooked that the flesh and bone almost melts in your mouth. The flesh comes right off of the bone as she tries to pick it. The same goes for the other two main dishes. The lamb Haneeth has its usual Haneeth aroma. Lambs are so tender that it almost feels like I am eating chicken. It's tender and juicy from the natural fat of the lamb. Compared to the lamb Haneeth, zurbian lamb was non spicy and flavourless. Instead, the rice in Zurbian was more flavourful and had subtle heat to it than the rice in Haneeth. This time, the rice in Haneeth was nothing like the one I tasted in Malaysia or at the same restaurant in January. This time the Haneeth rice was plain white and slightly aromatic from cardamom, cinnamon and ghee. It had raisins and almonds. It tasted nice and tasted kinda like the plain polo/polao you have in Asia (like in West Bengal in India or in Bangladesh). My daughter enjoys the food since it's very mildly spiced. I loved the food and I think because of it's non spicy nature, it will appetizing for western audiences as well. The künafa was very slightly sweet almost to a level that I felt like the chef probably forgot to add sweets. It's more cheesy than sweet. The atmosphere gives you a traditional vibe and gives you a touch of their culture and ways of consuming food. The place is filled with a nice aroma (maybe some Arabic fragrances), nice artifacts, and two types of sitting arrangements. It allows you to enjoy the food in their traditional way - sitting on the carpet, comfortably leaning on cushions, taking a sip from your cup of tea and sharing meals from a large common dish prepared for all the members of your family. I have tried some of the dishes that I knew from Malaysia. Now, I am pretty excited to try some of their new dishes that I...

Dear Restaurant Management, I am writing to formally express my extreme disappointment with the dining experience my group of 16 people had at your establishment. What should have been an enjoyable group meal turned into a frustrating and unprofessional encounter that falls far short of acceptable restaurant standards. Reservation and Initial Preparation: Despite making a reservation well in advance, our group arrived to find that our tables were not prepared. This lack of preparation was our first indication of the poor service to follow. For a group of 16 people who had planned their visit carefully, this initial oversight was both inconsiderate and unprofessional. Ordering and Meal Discrepancies: We specifically ordered a whole sheep, which was advertised as weighing 16 kg to accommodate our group. However, the amount of meat we received was substantially less than what was promised. Upon careful examination, I counted only 7 ribs, which is approximately a quarter of a whole sheep (considering a sheep typically has 28 ribs). This is a significant deviation from what we paid for and were led to expect. Service Failures: The service was riddled with multiple critical failures:

Main dishes were served before we received plates Utensils arrived 5 minutes after the food was served Sauces were delayed even further Bread was served towards the end of the meal The restaurant was forced to relocate other customers to accommodate our group

Financial Impact: We paid a total of 500 euros for this meal, yet received less than half of the promised quantity of meat. Your subsequent compensation offer of either a 50% discount on a future visit or a 70 euro refund is completely inadequate and does not address the magnitude of the service failures. Compensation Expectations: Given the significant shortcomings in both food quantity and service quality, we expect:

A full refund of the original 500 euros A formal apology for the multiple service failures Explanation of how you will prevent such incidents in the future

While the taste of the food was surprisingly good, every other aspect of our dining experience was unacceptable. The fundamental promises of quantity, timely service, and professional preparation were comprehensively broken. I look forward to your immediate and comprehensive response addressing these...

I’ve heard a lot about this place, Coming from Jordan I’m accustomed to authentic Yemeni food, and this being the only joint in the Netherlands, I had to try it; here’s how it went:

We booked a table for 2, and service was exquisite. Very friendly faces and people.

To be able to be seated in their traditional floor setting experience, you should specify this whilst booking/reserving.

The food: Excellent and filling food, but rice dishes are made for 1 person, so you might want to rethink sharing that.

We ordered: Muqalqal: (meat cuts, spiced, and cooked in a clay pot; comes with mallawah (infamous layered Yemeni bread).

Fahsa: shredded lamb, in somewhat of a sauce; comes with mallawah bread as well. Also comes in a sizzling clay pot. Super delicious, you might want to use that as a condiment to add on rice— you won’t be disappointed.

Sahawiq with cheese: it’s a type of Yemeni condiment of crushed tomatoes and green chilli, but this one comes with I believe to be feta cheese; amazing.

Zurbian: a famous lamb, and potatoes in rice dish that is typically cooked in the pressure cooker, the meat is marinated in tougher, spices, and crushed fried onions, topped with raisins & fried onions, comes with a condiment (sahawiq). You can also order the cucumber yoghurt condiment to cool off.

Finally we had Areeka and Aden/Eden tea for dessert, the tea is boiled for a long time and then mixed with evaporated milk; brings back memories if you grew up around carnation milk brand. As for the Areeka which was supposed to be some kind of dates mince with bread or some kind of baked dough based thing, topped with cream, cheese, and honey; I liked this the least, wasn’t as good as I’ve had it at other Yemeni places outside here.

Overall, we were 2, but we always go food hunting so we order a lot & try— we love our bellies. We paid €82 for the above, plus a mint lemonade & a coke.

I will repeat this experience, try other dishes next time, but definitely in...