Sharkia — Restaurant in Bucharest

Located inside the Radisson hotel, Sharkia offers a menu of “Eastern Mediterranean” food in a casual bar setting—but let’s just get one thing straight: the best thing about this restaurant is their freshly baked pita bread! It actually came in two formats: a flatbread and a sliced loaf, but they were made using the same dough and came for free at every table. The bread was soft, chewy, and perfect for eating with the mezze dishes. My pick was the hummus with lamb, in which the creamy chickpea dip was topped with a flavorful mixture of ground lamb, pine nuts, parsley, and chili flakes. The ground meat mixture added an unctuous flavor to the already decadent hummus, and the plating of this dish was beautiful too. I also ordered the falafel with tahini dip, but the fritters were rather greasy and less than memorable. Finally, I had the Sharkia Kebab, which were ground beef/lamb kebabs in a tomato and onion sauce, baked in a pot covered with pita dough, which baked up into a chewy, edible lid. The kebabs and the tomato sauce were both tasty, but again, the best part was...

In this so called lebanese restaurant, the food Doesn't have any thing to do with "lebanese" The bare minimum presentation is to have olive oil at the table!! How is it possible to serve a micro plate of "tabbouleh" without even a drop of lemon juice added to it ?!! Micro plates of everything with prices of a high-end restos, as it is supposed to be and as it is advertised ! Not to forget the three little pieces of "falafel" that costs you in Lebanon 2 lei at most, selling it for 31 lei. I am a person who likes to pay for a real value of the thing and not to feel scammed . Not a regret, the atmosphere was good but the food needs to be on another level for such a location and such prices ! Any other oriental resto shows his clients some sort of respect and appreciation by bringing a little desert to the table, except "Sharkia". Not a single glimpse of middle eastern generosity at this place. Bucharest has become different when it comes to food quality and prices in restos ... thats only one of the many...

It would probably be a zero stars for me. We booked a table for 5, when we arrived they welcomed us very kindly. After we ordered we waited more or less an hour to eat and we didn't like that; But the worst part came at the time of the bill, evidently seeing that we were foreigners they thought they could cheat us, they brought us a bill of €330, which immediately seemed absurd to me. Only when I took the receipt in my hand and they noticed I did they come to us to apologize, saying that "by mistake" they had put the dishes from the nearby table, then charging €180. I think that as elegant as the place may be, this gesture really made clear the respect you have for the people who came to visit the town and who were pleased to come to your restaurant. Next time maybe you have...