Two MORE weeks till Vandy Zaytoons?!?

Subject: Why is this Zaytoon's different than all other Zaytoon's?

I got the 411 on their liquor license. The myrtle and smith st. Zaytoon'ses are BYOB, but this one sells fairly inexpensive beer and wine. The owners are apparently observant muslims, and won't profit from the sale of liquor, so at the Vanderbilt operation they've outsourced the liquor license to someone else. Win-win, as it were.

It's nearly identical to the other two, which (I think) don't have gardens, but they all have some of the best middle eastern food in NYC. And now only 1.5 blocks from home! I've been three times since they opened.

Does anyone have their phone number handy? I assume the menu's the same for takeout as the other locations, but they don't have this new one up on Menupages.com yet.

Subject: Zaytoon's

Ordered in last night, it was chicken Schwarma, a pizza, spinach pie and a Tabouleh salad. Why all the Hype??? Everyone here has been so excited by what??? Another mid eastern restaurant??? Their quality is no better than Olive vine, if nor less. The Schwarma was bland, the chicken had no flavor whatsoever, i had to put a couple of spices and hot sauce to make it edible, the pita bread was cold as if taken out of a bag that was bought at met food. The Pizza fared no better, the dough was under cooked, it stuck to the paper on the bottom, afetr i ate it i almost threw up so i am not getting that again. The spinach pie was lovely, very warm full of yummy spinach and cheese, the tabouleh was a disaster it had so much parsley that i thought it was closer to rabbit food, it had like 3 or 4 pieces of tomatoes and a scallion here and there but mostly PARSLEY!!! SO KNOCK YOURSELVES OUT GUYS....

We found it yummy and reasonably priced. Will definitely add it to the rotation!

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Went on Saturday. The food was awesome. The beer was cold. I couldn't even finish it all (I was starved and ate too fast)! This is a great addition to the neighborhood because it's isn't fried crap and it's still priced within reason. I'm already dreaming about when I'll go back next.