Safura's Mediterranean Cuisine — Restaurant in Lacey

I know my Mediterranean. So when I found out about this place in Lacey had to try it out. Overall, I would say this place is an "ok" Med restaurant with lots of room for improvement.

First walking in seems like regular service but when you pay, you go up to the register rather than pay your server. It's café style. Lots of tables available. Sat down at one of four booths. We ordered the samosa as an appetizer, small side of hummus and pita bread. Main meals were the gyros-beef/lamb for myself, chicken for my GF. They come with fries, salad drink combo for $13 so pretty good deal. Samosa is meant to be lightly fried and fluffy. They were overcooked and very oily. Hummus was smooth and creamy but just too plain-tasting. Needed more lemon, garlic and some cumin for my mouth to grab onto. Pita bread was store-bought and nothing special. This place could benefit from homemade Med flat bread to give it that authentic feel instead of the pita bread you get at the Safeway bread aisle.

Beef/lamb gyro was excellent. Meat cooked well, shawarma style with excellent spiced flavor with tzatziki sauce rounding it out. In contrast, the chicken gyro was just weird and we couldn't eat it. There were these dried out strips of what I think was...chicken? Guess this was like a shawarma style but you shouldn't do chicken that way! A chicken gyro should be pieces of chicken, not thin crunch taco chip-like strips. Just was too bizarre. When we cashed out I took some baklava home for later dessert treat. It's very good, excellent maple, pistachio flavor, light and flakey. Final note: They pass back the credit card charge to the customer, 3.75% so watch out for that gotchya when you pay!

So all in all, just a meal that was all over the place. I am willing to give this place another chance though. I'd try something different like one of their kabob specials to get a real feel for their arguably quality Mediterranean dishes but it would have to be REALLY good for me to come back...

Edit: Sadly I have to edit this review and change the rating from 5 to 1 stars. We moved out of the area so we haven't been to this place for a long time.

We recently came to visit Oly and decided eating there with friends, based on loving it in the past but we discovered the place is not the same.

The service was horrible, our server brought 2 plates of the same appetizer, when we only ordered one. She stood there arguing with us that we ordered two and was reluctant to take one back trying to convince us to keep it.

She refused to make any changes to the menu when we explained that one person in our party had teeth issues and needed soft food, and asked to switch the salad in their dish with something softer, there was 0 willingness to accommodate him, and generally her whole attitude made it clear that she has no clue what giving service even means.

The portions were small, the meat was dry, the food wasn't the same quality or taste as it used to be.

Everyone at our table was super disappointed with the meal and the service and we felt embarrassed for recommending the place to our friends.

I tried to find out if the place was sold and it seems like it may have sold a while ago. It used to be a family business with people who cared, with warm environment, and fair prices for good food but it's no longer any of that... what a shame that I can no longer recommend this place and we will not be back.

We love Safura. Great food, good service, lovely family business. We love their gyros, they are generous with the meat, we always ask for tahini sauce replacement and they accommodate it. They have delicious fruit drinks too and the Baklava is really good. The owners were always super friendly and they really deserve good business for...

I've been a customer of this restaurant for well over a decade. I've never had a complaint until last night. I'm a personal chef and have 4 decades of restaurant experience. On the Appetizers board was a new offering. Swarma fries topped with cheese! What's not to love? But we didn't want an over abundance of fries. So we asked to exchange the fries in our order (10a&10b) with a small salad. We offered to pay the same price as we also ordered the Swarma fries. The owner said 'not. Here's the short sightednessof that action. It's going to be a while b4 we go back. They lost money and don't know it. The plates we would have ordered were $14.25 each (x2) and the Swarma fries were $10.00. This comes to 38.50. (We did get drinks but they don't figure in this part) Now, IF the owners were more concerned with making the customer happy instead of exerting their control over what they serve they would have made that. Instead that made this: order#2 $8.95, order 10b $14.25 and the$10 Swarma fries for a total of $33.20. This is a net loss of $5.30. Not to count the loss of future sales due to our not getting the service we were willing to pay for. I'm a personal chef and my clients get much better service than most restaurants deliver. That's the advantage of having an in-home chef at...