Jamo's Cafe — Restaurant in Huntsville

I met my boyfriend at Jamo's for lunch on Saturday after a morning class at UAH. There are a lot of solid places to eat on Jordan Lane, but if you're looking for a quick, relatively inexpensive place for a fresh bite to eat, Jamo's is not a bad bet!

Since it's a cafe, they have several coffee and smoothie and juice options. Regrettably, I didn't try any of those, but they looked and smelled good! Instead, I had the chicken kabob plate, and my boyfriend had the gyro plate.

Jamo's was sadly empty when we arrived around 12:15. A man and someone who looked like his daughter jumped up to help us. She took our orders while he immediately went to the kitchen to start cooking our food for us.

No doubt, the meals are fresh! My chicken was still sizzling hot when it was served to me. The kabob has chicken, bell pepper, and onion. It's served on a bed of rice with hummus, a small salad, pita wedges, and a piece of pineapple and I think an orange slice -- I wasn't hungry enough to eat it all so I might be wrong about that. At any rate, the season was well seasoned, tender, and cooked perfectly. The rice was rather bland. I thought the hummus was really smooth and tasty. For me, the pita was a little on the too chewy and tough side, but it still tasted pretty good with the hummus. My boyfriend enjoyed his gyro meat, saying the strips had enjoyable crispy edges with tender centers. He got tzatziki sauce instead of hummus, which went well with the gyro strips and pita, sort of a build your own gyro if you were so inclined. His plate was identical to mine except he got gyro meat strips instead of chicken on a kabob, and tzatziki instead of hummus.

While I'm not totally sure I'd absolutely go out of my way to revisit Jamo's, I'd still happily return if I wanted something Mediterranean-ish while in the area. I'd definitely like to try some of their smoothies, as those looked really...

Small cafe with indoor and porch seating. Lots of plants to greet you. They operate out of a tiny kitchen for the hot foodd and a large section for drinks. Order at the corner and they'll bring it to your table. Cashier was friendly. Looking at my receipt later (not itemized), I'm wondering how an $11.49 gyro plate, a $4.29 spanakopita, and no drink added up to be $19.60 (unless it's 24% taxes here). It comes in styrofoam plates and plastic ware regardless if you're dining in or taking out. Spanakopita was fried, not baked like it says in the menu. It was very greasy. Tasty while it's at mouth burning temperatures but quickly became soggy as it cooled. Like it was baked, then frozen, then fried? That's just a guess on my part. The Gyro plate was an appropriate lunch portion. The pita was thin and stale. One side of it was warm but it quickly became inedible (like hard leather) as it cooled. The tzatsiki was very nice: creamy without being runny, good cucumber flavor (I'd buy a container of that to go if I could). The rice was good. The gyro meat was not. I'm still not sure how it became the texture that it did. It seemed like it was sliced off after being on the rotisserie for A While and then maybe left in a warming bin?. One side was very dark and the edges are hard and crispy. The salad was nicely assembled although I'm not sure why I would get a whole slice of the green pepper, onion, and tomato when everything else is already chopped. The slice of pineapple was sweet and a good finishing bite.

My experience was just meh~ It could be so much better if it was just... fresher. I may come back, but probably not for a while. I'm hoping if I give them time to improve the next visit...

If I could give less than 1 star, I would. We stopped in for lunch today. We were the only customers when we arrived (should have took that as a sign). We ordered a lunch plate, philly steak wrap, dolmades, and two fountain drinks.

They got the ice from the sink, I watched them do it….there was something black floating in my drink when I received it. It took 35 minutes to receive our food, and I had to ask for the dolmades because they were forgotten. And honestly, we should have forgotten them too because they were not worth asking for.

As far as the food, everything was old tasting. The lettuce on my wrap and on the plate lunch was wet and not crispy, the fries tasted freezer burnt then fried in old grease, the dressing for the salad had a chemical taste, and the humus was so watery that it had a pool of liquid on top of a “gloop” of what resembled humus. I could keep going but hopefully you get the point.

Additionally, I understand the relationship of the workers to be father, teenage daughter and teenage son. And they are not afraid to yell at each other argumentatively, even with customers in the restaurant.

Unfortunately, it was $30 wasted on lunch that we left on the...