I was drawn to the Deg Deg grille last year while riding my bike down the Greenway. The pungent aroma of seasoned, grilled meat would sink down into the bike path and every time I rode past the location I got very, very hungry. So my mission was to find out where it was coming from. Here was a marvelous hole-in-the-wall throbbing with culture and affordable, quick, and tasty North African fare. Several times I stopped by to load up my bike basket with this incredible food to take home for a satisfying meal for me and my partner. Later in the year, things started to change. They didn’t have what I ordered. The service was not particularly pleasant and I had to get what I could. Recently I stopped back to the Deg Deg hoping to reward my partner with a scrumptious meal after a long day. The place was dead. The grille wasn’t alive and there was no one in the kitchen area. I stood at the counter looking blankly at the overhead picture menu. The employee was sitting at one of the tables and asked me if he could help me. I asked if he had #1 and #4 - these are savory beef and chicken dishes that we simply could not stop eating when I ordered them before. He said they were changing the menu to serve only the “American“ menu items - gyros, hot dogs, fried stuff, etc. Essentially, food I can get anywhere. My heart sank. I left without ordering anything. Deg Deg Grille began as a promising North African gem, but has apparently fallen victim to some sort of mismanagement and/or apathy. I am afraid that if it doesn’t soon return to serving the food that made it special, it will flicker out and become another shooting star restaurant. Somebody please do something!