Tal's Hummus — Restaurant in New Orleans

We've ordered here before, but had it delivered. It was solid. The food this time was pretty good , but not as good as before. It happens, right? I'm willing to give a spot a few tries if I know there's a chance for greatness. Biggest issue with this spot, at least this time, was the attitude of the guy working the counter. I walk in early evening on a Sunday. There's no other people eating in there. The guy at the counter was apparently too bothered to take out his air pods when I walk in. I get to the counter and he pulls out an earbud and says something like, 'yeah?'. Seriously? It's summer in NOLA . Everything is dead. Places are making sacrifices to keep their teams employed, and this guy can't even greet someone with a hello? I then tell him I'm picking up an order. He half screams 'what?', as I assume his music was still playing in his other ear bud. I repay myself, but with a bit of saltiness this time (as is fair). He asks my name. I tell him. He asks again. I tell him again. There's literally ONE other behind him, and it clearly says my name in it. Also, I'm not a soft-spoken guy. When I talk, you'll hear me (assuming you aren't wearing ear buds). He then proceeded to half heartedly try to tell me that he's had several people with my name order today (that's BS), though I'm not sure what that has to do with my order.

I give a LOT of grace to service industry people in this city, especially in the summer. So got this guy to tub me this much the wrong way meant he was definitely not interested at all in actually representing his employer with any respect for the business.

Not gonna be back for a while. Try better,...

I ordered 2 half platters for $6 each of the chicken shawarma. I asked Matt, the guy who took my order, if the 2 half platters were just meat and he said yes because the platter order for $13 included the vegetables and other stuff.

After the order came, it had a very small amount of chicken in each pita bread and they were both filled with mostly vegetables and hummus. I told Matt about my concern and he argued with me repeatedly about how I was wrong and the half chicken orders looked like that. He then said that I should have ordered a side of just chicken shawarma for $5 each (a dollar cheaper)

I asked him if he could do that and I would give him back what I already have. He said no and told me that he would have to charge me again. He messed up my order, but he wasn’t going to fix it. I asked if I could speak to the manager and he told me the manager isn’t here. I said if he could try contacting the manager and he looked around for 5 seconds and said there isn’t anyone else I could talk to. Then he said, what do you want to do, talk to the cooks?

During the 2 years I’ve been living in NOLA, I have never experienced such disrespect from an employee. The food was decent, but I will not go back to Tal’s Hummus and will tell people to avoid Matt because he was...

Perhaps a bit dumb of a thing to walk away with, of all the possible places to get food in New Orleans, of the multitudes of cajun options, taco places, beignets, whatever else there is to do in NOLA, but this was my favorite place I ate at during my entire time here. We decided to walk back from the zoo to see everything in between there and the downtown area for something besides the French Quarter and this was the perfect place for a meal, especially in the heat of New Orleans (pre?)-summer. I don't know how bad the weather here gets (personal opinion here, everyone has theirs), and this was extremely refreshing in terms of both the welcoming environment that the owner sets up and the immediate calm that a humble side cafe leaves. I've never had shawarma, or whatever it is, because that looks like a wrap and I'm sure I didn't eat any gluten that I could see here, but it was all-encompassing. It might've been high heat at 2:00 pm exhaustion, I don't know. Perfect timing here is transcendental, and the owner is reserved and friendly and lets you enjoy this place however you want. I'm sure you can find tons of great places on Magazine Street, and this stuff did wonders after a couple miles and 80+ (I'm not very heat...