Welcoming:1/10 Menu Choices: 3/10 Food Presentation: 1/10
Food Temperature: 2/10 Food Taste: 0/20 Service: 0/10
Ambiance/Music: 0/10 Architecture/Interior: 2/10 Air Quality: 0/10
Total: 9/100
More about: Bilad E ChamI’m in Algeria this weekend…
We took a 20-minute drive from Alger’s center to reach the touristic compound of Mazafran. That is where the Safir Hotel is located. A restaurant that is supposed to be one of the best in town… You walk into long lobby, dimmed lit place followed by a corridor to the right which takes you to Bilad E Cham, a restaurant serving Lebanese cuisine, located at the end of the complex.
If this is the best restaurant that serves Lebanese cuisine in town… I seriously don’t want to even imagine what’s worse…
The first impression is not the best:
- The low ceiling makes the place claustrophobic
- Dimmed lighting that’s more suitable for a nightclub than a restaurant
- Smoke haunts the place; Make sure to stay in groups not to lose each other inside
- Violet table napkins on square plates
- White table cloths add a glimpse of refinement
- Salt and pepper shakers, placed in the middle of the tables are even dirtier than a kid’s clothes after a football game
I’m sorry to inform you that you’ll have to bare listening to the scathing shouting of their one man show and his background echoes.
A culinary experience no Lebanese or Syrian would ever admit to be a part of their culture:
- Tabbouleh needs more flavor. It just tastes simple parsley
- Sambousik are too watery and needs more crunchiness of the dough
- Kebbe is too oily
- Labneh has a fade taste and too lemony like almost everything served tonight. It tastes nothing like the Labneh we know. Maybe they have to find another name for this dish
- Cheese rolls are more of French roulades than the ones served at local restaurants in Lebanon: The puff pastry contains a lot of seasoning and paprika and the cheese inside has a bitter aftertaste
- Hummus is below average, prepared and left in the fridge with the olive oil on top hardened from the cold
- French fries are oily and undercooked. They are so unappetizing
- The meat platter served with sautéed vegetables and a cooked tomato is hard and chewy. It’s the kind of meat my dog finds hard to chew
- Meat skewers were served cold even though they were tender
- Rice is over cooked. I thought I was eating a raw concrete mix with green beans
- Lahme Beajine? Lol! They taste like sh..!
In a nutshell, the food is disgusting and unacceptable to be served in any restaurant. I’m ashamed, as a Lebanese, to have such a bad thing representing my fine cuisine the world talks about.
The minuses and unacceptable things:
- Food is the worst I have ever tasted in my life. By far the worst
- Plates are stingy and minuscule. Was that a single bite or a plate of Hummus?
- One single beat was playing in the background the whole night long when the singer decided to take a break. It was like putting your head in a drum roll
- Forks are too small to eat with. Those are used for desserts only. Consider changing them
- Service is below mediocre. I won’t even call it a service but a bunch of men driving trays from the kitchen to the tables. Nothing I ordered was even delivered
- We had some waiters visit us at the very beginning to serve the food and that was it. I think they had a card game to attend to in the kitchen
- I ordered a Diet Coke which I never received, -It was charged- while the Shisha was delivered 30 minutes after by the head waiter himself, the table was left dirty all night long
- Nobody proposed desserts
- Don’t Lebanese restaurants usually offer fruits?
Yes, it is that bad. I still cannot believe my eyes. My palatal buds has not stopped screaming in pain since…
PS: The ambassadors of Syria and Lebanon should take action against this restaurant which claims to actually serving our countrties’ cuisine. I felt sorry…
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