{"id":1441,"date":"2014-01-02T02:33:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T18:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2014-01-02T02:33:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T18:33:58","slug":"zayna-mediterranean-tuczon-az-restaurant-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2014\/01\/zayna-mediterranean-tuczon-az-restaurant-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Zayna Mediterranean &#8211; Tuczon, AZ &#8211; Restaurant Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had dinner at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zaynamediterranean.com\/\">Zayna Mediterranean<\/a> last August 2013, while we were visiting Tucson. \u00a0Zayna was close to our hotel and had gotten\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/zayna-mediterranean-tucson-2\">pretty good reviews<\/a>\u00a0on Yelp. \u00a0Overall, the adults liked the food but the children were not very happy.<\/p>\n<p>We got there pretty late, after 8 PM, and the place was buzzing. The two waitresses could not really serve the full-restaurant adequately. \u00a0That meant that our drinks were rarely refilled, and they weren&#8217;t available to correct mistakes. \u00a0They were friendly, just overwhelmed.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zaynamediterranean.com\/\">menu<\/a> is standard Arab\/Syrian food. \u00a0I had the lamb kifta ($12.5) and the skewers were quite tasty. \u00a0My oldest daughter liked the green beans and we all thought the buttered rice was very good.<\/p>\n<p>My daughter, on the other hand, did not like the mujadara ($8) she ordered. \u00a0Granted, it was probably my fault for not explaining to her what a pilaf was &#8211; she thought it&#8217;d be a lentil and rice soup! \u00a0We ordered it without the grilled onions, so it did lack flavor and it was very dry. \u00a0For me, mixing in the yogurt sauce helped greatly, though it still was a pretty boring dish.<\/p>\n<p>My husband had some sort of pita sandwich which he enjoyed, we all liked the fried potatoes it came with.<\/p>\n<p>The dressed salads, however, were so sour that they were basically inedible to us.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant itself is pretty cute, the colored walls are decorated with huge photos of Damascus. \u00a0Two or three of them looked exactly like the ones I took when I visited over twenty years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zayna Mediterranean<\/strong><br \/>\n4122 E Speedway Blvd<br \/>\nTucson,\u00a0AZ<br \/>\n(520) 881-4348<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zaynamediterranean.com\/\">zaynamediterranean.com<\/a><br \/>\nMon-Sun 11 am &#8211; 9 pm<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/rest\/other\/\">Marga&#8217;s Resturant Reviews: Beyond the Bay Area<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had dinner at Zayna Mediterranean last August 2013, while we were visiting Tucson. \u00a0Zayna was close to our hotel and had gotten\u00a0pretty good reviews\u00a0on Yelp. \u00a0Overall, the adults liked the food but the children were not very happy. We got there pretty late, after 8 PM, and the place was buzzing. The two waitresses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[296,319,320,318],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","tag-arab","tag-arizona","tag-syrian","tag-tucson","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}