Month Visited: 06/04
- Bad Meal
I had the identical experience as the reviewer who suffered overcharging. Being Kosher and living in Las Vegas, my options are limited. After first moving here a year ago, I took my girlfriend to Haifa for dinner. She ordered the 5 dollar felafel pita pocket, and I ordered the shwarma. The woman who runs the place bullied me on and on (I've lived in Israel, and her bullying was over the top abnormal) to get the most expensive dish, a full platter of all their meats. They brought my girlfriend the felafel "platter" -- a couple of felafel balls, no pita, and costing $12 instead of the $5 dish we ordered- and my dish, the most expensive on the menu, seemed to be one lamb chop, a few spiced meatballs, and little else. It cost a fortune, about $40. We told them they brought her the wrong dish, but the woman refused to do anything about it. We decided to just pay and not go back. This past weekend was one year later, and I was jonesing for some kosher food, and we decided to try it again, this time for lunch. We started off by ordering water, and after clarifying that we wanted tap water (my girlfriend has lived here for over ten years and never had this treatment), we were told it would be unhealthy for us. Clearly they assumed we were tourists, and they told us that "the hotels filter their water but here we don't, so you need bottled water." We didn't want a full on argument, or for them to poison our tap water to prove it, so we ordered bottled water, $2 apiece for a couple of small Arrowhead cheapo waters. I ordered the shwarma pita pocket and my girlfriend ordered the felafel pita pocket. The woman who runs the place was rude, and kept saying "that's it? that's it?" very gruffly and nasty. We should have just walked out right there, but I was starving. So we gave in and ordered two side orders of french fries -- which we later discovered, while a side dish for many items on the menu, was not listed on the menu itself. The felafel was quite undercooked, but I liked my shwarma (they imitate lamb shwarma by using spiced turkey) quite a lot. The felafel was listed as 5 dollars, and the shwarma as 6 (or maybe 7). When we finished, we were given a bill with nothing on it but one number: $27.50. So they must have charged us at least $10 for two tiny saucers of a few french fries which were not very good. I saw one reviewer would have had me argue and yell or something, and demand a full accounting, but you know, I don't think it should be considered my fault that I wouldn't get into that major a confrontation. We paid and decided we would NEVER go back. This time we mean it.
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<cordovero -at- yahoo.com> From: Henderson NV USA Added: 06/16/04
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