Mediterranean Kebab and Pizza House — Restaurant in Virginia

My family and I did not have a good experience here. We walked in, it took a few minutes for us to even get acknowledged even though the restaurant was completely empty and there were 2 employees sitting in the corner and watched us walk in. We were seated and it took another 5+ minutes for anyone to even come to our table. After the waitress walked up to us she just said "ready to order?" in what almost sounded like an annoyed or frustrated tone that she even had to deal with us. We place our orders and ask for 4 waters. It took probably about 10 minutes for us to even get our waters. Once the food came out my husband's food and my father's food was incredibly dry to the point my husband couldn't even eat his. My mother said hers was a bit dry as well but was edible. I got the falafel sandwich and I did actually really like mine. After we ate we sat there with our empty plates just waiting to our server to come up again because we were never checked on throughout our entire visit, only when food was brought out but no one asked how everything was, asked if we needed anything, or if we needed refills. Eventually I was able to catch the servers eye to flag her down for the check. When she came over she noticed my husband hadn't eaten she asked and he said his food was very dry and inedible. It is appreciated that she offered to make him some to go but he declined, since the rest of the food wasn't great other than mine we didn't trust for the second round would be any better. I asked if we could have his plate removed from the bill since he ate almost none of it, and she callusly said "sure" and walked away shaking her head.

The food isn't that great, the service definitely isn't good, based off our experience today we do not recommend visiting...

*update 8/10/2022

I ordered online for delivery and selected the beyti kebab and a medium cheese pizza. The cheese pizza was ok but I didn’t get beyti kebab that I ordered. I think they gave me doner kebab instead. The flavor was good on the doner kebab but I just really wanted to try the beyti kebab because the menu description sounded really good “ ground lamb mix with black pepper fresh red peppers and Turkish hot pepper flakes road and a tortilla bread with Ishkander sauce”

First time here and first time trying Turkish cuisine. I tried the kebab house combo and baklava. The combo came with two choice of skewers, rice or bulgar and small salad and pita bread and tzatziki sauce. I chose lamb and chicken, the lamb was cooked and seasoned well but I was not a fan of the chicken (it tasted really dried out and not much flavor). However everything else was pretty good, I really liked the baklava. I will come back and try their other dishes.

*Update: I have tried the Lahmacun Turkish Pizza and hummus. Both were very good, the Lahmacun was 3 thin crust with finely ground lamb and came with side of lettuce, tomato and onion and lemon wedge. The Hummus came with pita bread and was flavorful . I have also tried the Adana Kebab (ground lamb with turkish red pepper flakes) and spinach and cheese Turkish Pide (Turkish pizza) and Sigara Boregi (pastry filled with feta cheese, dill and fried) -...

While in the are with a coworker we stopped in for lunch… I selected this place because I was in the mood for Mediterranean food. The décor is interesting and looks like a Turkish market – Really nicely done! They weren’t busy when we went in and our server immediately greeted us and let us sit where we wanted. He was great at taking care of us during our stay and explained the menu and the way they prepare food just perfectly!

They had some very interesting and unique items on the menu, some I’d never even heard of before and that sounded very appetizing! I decided to go with kabob and selected an Adana Kabob, which is beef and a chicken shish kabob. The beef kebab was spiced nicely and tender, definitely not dry nor overcooked, which can be common with these thin style ground meat kabobs. The chicken was flavored nicely and very tender and moist. The rice was nice and had a decent flavor too.

We also tried their hummus which was really good and it came with their homemade bread, rather than a pita bread. The bread was really good, very nicely done, tasty, and soft! Their hummus was flavored nicely and they had a spicy dip which had a great flavor too.

To finish, we opted for some rice pudding and their Turkish coffee. The coffee was great! Definitely not bitter and that pudding was very flavorful too!

Loved this visit and would love to return to try more items from their...