Pasha Mediterranean Grill — Restaurant in San Antonio

Update#11: Apr 11, 2025. Still coming and enjoy our favorite restaurant consistently the best and again all you can eat naan, all you can drink rose teas and just good Middle Eastern cuisine. Great value and still using the gift cards from Costco with 20% off total bill.

Update#10: 2019 Winners San Antonio Magazine for Best Mediterranean/Greek Food. Doug one of the best managers has been back a few months now. Great for the customers and staff! Continue to eat here 3-4 times a month.

*UPDATE#9: Oct 14. Winner 2018 San Antonio Readers' Choice Best Middle Eastern restaurant. Now we know why. Our family of four fully enjoyed our meal!

UPDATE#8: Oct 7, 2018. Touches of feta cheese in the za'atar dip. Complementary tea & baklava A+. Extra care & time preparing dishes. Yum!!

UPDATE#7: Sept 24, 2018. Great news! Pasha earned a 91 score by City Health. Bring the families' palate and eat heartily! Consistently delicious cuisine from Sept 22. Keep up the great work..it's showing!

UPDATE#6: Sept 22, 2018. Pleasantly surprised. Exceptionally richer tasting food today perhaps over any other visit. The finer details from stronger rose tea to salad dressing. Afterwards, my wife and I were served complementary Persian Tea and baklava. Great dining!

UPDATE#5: Sept 17, 2018. Come on back..folks! Daughter & I ate here 8:45pm. Leftovers Sept 20. Healthy!

UPDATE#4: Called Sept 14, 2018. Yes! They are open for business as usual. Ask yourself... Would the City Health Department allow them to remain open if people were still getting sick?

UPDATE#3: Sept 11, 2018. Yes, we know it's safe to eat here! Our food from 2 days ago consisted of chicken shawarma plate, fish wrap, and Trio plate (beef, chicken, lamb). All dishes came with salad & dressing, hummus and 2 garlic aioli. Two waters & one rose tea. 3 naan bread (yeah...love it!). Ate leftovers yesterday and today. No ill-effects.

UPDATE#2: Sept 9, 2018. Family of 3 ate lunch here about 1 p.m.. Spoke extensively with owner and wait staff. Reassured all possible suspect food thrown out, thorough cleaning top to bottom, workers and vendors checked. Single incident in 10 years. Owner felt local news misreported real affected numbers. Yes...will continue to patronize.

UPDATE: Dined for lunch on Monday, Sept 3, 2018 with city health inspectors present. Confident problem addressed & solved. No health issues noted for family of 4. Past inspections have always scored 90 or above except once. Still believe in Pasha! Never once had an issue with the food since 2013.

Our most favorite restaurant in ALL of San Antonio. Family has been coming here 2 to 3X per month since June 2013. Food prepared in deliciously unique middle eastern flavors served by a great wait staff. Tasty experience reminds me of Doha, Qatar 2004.

20% off every order with a Costco gift card. All you can eat naan with za'atar (herbs) and rose tea refills. Nice! Well...

Food: 2/5 Seevice: 4/5 We came in on a Friday around 4 pm and the place was pretty empty. It was cool outside, but they still had the fans on so we asked the waiter (a very nice guy) if they could turn them off and he spoke to his manager and they eventually turned them off. They started us off with fresh out of the oven naan and zaatar. The naan was very good, but the zaatar and oil were very bitter. I've never had zaatar that I disliked as much as this one (and I've had plenty of zaatar.) Next we ordered : the kashke bademjoon dip, falaffel, a gyro plate, a chicken shawarma plate, the pasha plate, and I ordered a koobideh plate (I substituted one of the koobideh skewers with a lamb kabob skewer.) I also asked for cranberry rice instead of the lentil rice. The eggplant dip was not good at all. The garlic had a very bitter and off-putting flavor. We've had the same dish at a Persian restaurant in Houston so we had a pretty good idea of how the dish should taste. The falaffel were very good. They were fluffy, crunchy, and very flavorful. They were definitely our favorite dish of the evening. The gyro plate was ok, the Pasha plate was good, the shawarma was also good, but the Hummus had absolutely no flavor. No salt, lemon juice, tahini, or garlic. It felt like ground chickpeas and some water to loosen it up. The beef koobideh was ok, I expected more flavor, but the biggest disappointment to me was the lamb. I expected a tender, flavorful, moist mouthful but what I got instead was a dry, tough, chewy piece of meat. We ended up paying around $75 for the meal (we also got some tea which was $4 for 4 people.) I was charged $16.48 for my dish (so I was basically charged $5.48 for a skewer of dry lamb.) The rice was pretty bland, too. It was definitely in need of some salt. The worst part, however, was that I asked for some lemon and cilantro and believe it or not I was charged for the cilantro! It was only $1, but the idea of getting charged for a garnish is pretty ridiculous to me. Honestly, I wouldn't go out of my way to eat here because the food was pretty...

I’ve experienced profound disappointment and disgust at my recent experience at Pasha Mediterranean Grill, a place that has, consistently, proven to be a disappointment. This location has been beset by an alarming number of issues, which, in all honesty, veer towards the horrifying. From incidents of E.coli contamination to a smattering of negative reviews regarding patrons falling sick post-dining, the missteps are many.

This time around, my friends and I chose to dine at your establishment, hoping against hope that our evening would be incident-free. Little did we know, we were inviting a nightmarish fiasco into our lives. Imagine trying to enjoy your Sabzi Stew, Chicken Shawarma, and the Gyro Naan when a ghastly surprise turns your stomach.

My boyfriend bit into a salad, only for his hand to stop mid-air, an "oh, no" hanging ominously in the air. A long thin alien object resided in his salad. What appeared to be a hair initially, on closer inspection, turned out to show us the grimace of a live cockroach. A live roach in our salad. Just let that sit a moment.

Pandemonium ensued as we all evacuated our seats, spitting out our food, the room's noise level plunging into a deathly silence. As your waiter approached, struggling to string together coherent sentences, I recounted our gruesome discovery, making it unmistakably clear that this vile intruder was part of our salad, not a latecomer from beneath a table.

The puzzling misconstrual that we might have staged this scandal for a free meal reinforced our disappointment. To argue over such an issue while failing to uphold the most basic standard of sanitation and cleanliness, particularly when dealing with food, shows a daunting lack of responsibility on your part.

Please understand: the health hazards involved in serving food contaminated by pests are unacceptable and disastrous. One expects, at the very least, a clean, hygienic meal when dining out, and sadly, your establishment has fallen dramatically short of even this basic...