Navroz Mediterranean Grill — Restaurant in Newport Beach

(From my Yelp: yes it was so bad I’m posting this review on Google too)

I never leave bad reviews. I'm the type who never vents my frustration onto the staff when the food is bad, but AVOID Navroz! The food is frozen, and they don't even try to hide it. The owner wasn't there, so I just left (why vent to the underpaid part-time workers?), but if the owner was there I'd ask them if they have ANY standards, if they have any shame, or any pride in their business at all. The owner should be ashamed of what they are trying to sell.

Let me tell you, as an Arab, this is an insult to actual Lebanese food. Somewhere like Forn Al-Hara in Anaheim is a much better and more authentic experience. They use this weird, frozen naan bread for the wraps (definitely not Lebanese or even Arab). Tastes like what you can buy from Trader Joe's. The gyro meat was also frozen, but they have two shawarma rotisserie machines that are just not even being used??? It's actually kind of sad.

The salad was scary, I ended up not eating it for my own safety. The lettuce was that pre-chopped stuff you get from a supermarket and it was OLD, with black stuff on the edges, yikes. And the cucumber. Oh my God. It was disgustingly bitter, like so bitter you'd think it was poisonous. By the way, that's what they call salad: pre-chopped lettuce, some thin slices of cucumber, some mystery cheese, and their so-called "tzatziki sauce." Again, have some standards. Have some shame.

Shout-out to the workers, owner should be completely ashamed of themself though. Never...

Super disappointed in food and service. My colleagues and I went yesterday for lunch. We loved the establishment that was here before this place.

Shocker was the skyrocketed prices that are now at this place.

2.The staff, the man at the registered told one of my colleagues that the prices were so high because the old man that use to own it served “crap quality” food. Um, but sir, we loved going there before you opened this new space, and the past owner man was the kindest person and always had a crowd!

If this new establishment was soo much better, why were we one of two tables in there? That place was always packed before.

Just sad that new business feels they need to put down past owners, when their food was not as good at all.

I would not go back just for the disrespect and secondly because the food was subpar.

Sad that one of our work favorites is now...

This food is DEEEE-LISH!!! I tried the Chicken Shwarma wrap one day and liked it so much that I then made everyone from my office try it. They have all been dreaming about it because they liked it so much so we all ordered it today. The little pitas (Homestyle Puffy Arabic bread) are freshly made, warm and bubbly. We want to order them on their own because they are so good. I don't have any pictures to share because I...