Another Time & Place Grille — Restaurant in Richardson

Came here for lunch today with my wife. I asked my wife where she wanted to go for lunch and said let’s try this new place. She told me where it was and I was really hesitant at first because it used to be a liquor store but as the saying goes, happy wife happy life. So we went and I am glad we went. It’s a nice little gem we found.

Food:

First off the most important thing for me about food that it needs to be healthy and delicious. Rare and hard to find now days. It was a nice surprise to Find out the owner is health conscious and the first thing you see when you walk in is a picture of the owner in a little flyer stating she does healthy meal prep. When we walked she greeted us and asked if we were doing the buffet or regular menu. We had no idea it was a buffet so tried the buffet. The food was delicious. Everything tasted great and looked good. My favorite, surprisingly, was the meat pizza! Probably because it had gyro meat on it which is my favorite. I had a couple of dishes I’ve never had before and they were delicious. The first one was Turkish ravioli and the second was salmon salad. all the bread was kept in a little warm oven/cabinet which was great. My wife had only one minor complaint which was the rice pudding. She loves rice pudding and she said this one was too jello like. It didn’t have enough rice grains. Not a big deal for me since I was too full to eat dessert!

Service:

I was a little worried service wouldn’t be as good because I didn’t see anyone but the owner but I was surprised. Every time I walked away to get another dish our table was cleared. I was very impressed. Most small business owners I know that own a restaurant wouldn’t be doing this. As a business owner myself, she has my support and respect. She was also very nice and polite. It’s hard to find a restaurant now days with good food and great service.

Price:

Price was a bit high for lunch at $14/person before tax. The only other comparable buffet is Dimassis’s buffet which has almost double the selection for about the same price.

Ambience:

The restaurant looked very cleaned and well maintained. Kudos to the owner. A lot of restaurants could take a lesson from this one. Buffet stations were very clean and made it look very appetizing. As a matter of fact, I felt a little bad when I let a little bit of soup spill. Sorry!

Overall, I would recommend others to give this a try. Very clean place with great service. The food is tasty as well. Might have a couple dishes that might surprise you. Great place for family, business or for friends...

Update!*

So this is no longer Tantuni, it's a completely different restaurant, menu, staff, and owner. Another Time & Place, which is what we were hoping for. We showed up expecting Tantuni, and it was gone, sadness did abound. We are if nothing else, a resilient bunch, and always down to try a new place so we stayed and sampled what the menu had to offer.

The wife got the lamb chops, I got the mixed grill, we got the Turkish pizza for the little, and a lamb wrap for the teen queen.

The Turkish pizza was actually quite good, I would recommend it as an appetizer or just shareable side. Unfortunately, I think that the pizza was the best of the dishes. My mixed grill was decent, well cooked, but perhaps could have used more seasonings. The lamb chops were cooked to a definite well done, which is a little more than you would want them for $27. The lamb wrap was filled with large pieces of lamb, that were a bit difficult for our teenager with braces, but she managed. She said it was okay, but "not very flavorful".

Overall it wasn't bad, it just wasn't GOOD, and it certainly wasn't as good as Tantuni. The prices were a bit higher, the flavors a bit milder, the service was decent. I would say if you haven't found your Mediterranean spot, give it a try, maybe we hit it at a bad time.

Seriously y'all! This is the spot.

The food is Turkish from what I understand, and apparently Turkish food is considered one of the worlds great cuisines.

And so it should be! The food here is delicious. The lamb shanks are freaking HUGE, and have all the tender, juicy, deliciousness that you hope for. The shanks come with a pilaf that is quite tasty.

The Adana kebab was a solid choice served with a humus, salad, and pilaf. There was also this splash of delicious chili sauce which the owner was happy to share was actually sambal oelek.

AND. THOSE. OLIVES.

yum.

We got chicken tantuni wraps for the kiddos, one order was enough for both, and they really enjoyed it.

We got humus with Turkish sausage and tantuni pies both were good, getting the humus and pie together made this crazy little Turkish "pepperoni" pizza flavor that was a hit with the kids.

Overall this place is great. Absolutely stellar service, amazing food with generous portions, and very reasonable prices. Plus those really cool Turkish lamps...do yourself a favor and stop on by, you're gonna be...

The food is mediocre not fresh but yet overpriced. You will pay a high price for food they cooked three days prior.

Olives where too salty and baklava has an overwhelming after taste that is very disturbing (NOT FRESH). It is disturbing to have to ask the cashier constantly for hot Turkish Tea (why not allow the customers to help themselves to the tea?) Is the gimmick they use to guilt you into giving the cashier gratuity). It is a buffet after all. Every restaurant serving Mediterranean food buffet style uses the same trick. I say to them, “Pay your employees at least minimum wage so they don’t depend on us to pay their wages.”

Additionally, being that it is a family own restaurant, the family who work here i.e., children and adults come out into the dinning area to eat and it gets loud and their children are out of control. Their children jump from seat to seat back and forth and their parents don’t correct them. It is really uncomfortable. This says they don’t care about you or me,” That saids, “You are welcome to leave.” This is why their restaurant went under before they change the name to Another Time & Place Grille. I say, “Same Place different times but same mediocre environment and food.” This is why they have no clientele. It is the paying customers who keep any business afloat not your family members no matter how big of a family you have.

To the owner: “It is this kind of attitude towards the public that makes your restaurants go under. Don’t change the name. Change the attitude, make fresh food and ask your family to be more respectful to the visitors who put money in your pockets to keep your doors open.”

I don’t appreciate going there and sitting on a seat that would be dirty or destroyed due to them allowing their children to vandalize them.

Moreover, their bathrooms are unkept. There is no toilet paper, no paper towels and the floors are wet and dirty.

In conclusion, people who are saying that the food is great are liars for the following reasons: either they are family members of the restaurant owner or countrymen / countrywomen and get something for free in which case their claims about the food being good is a fraud and it...