Tarboosh Eatery

The food is great but the service is erratic and extremely slow. I go here from time to time but the portions have gotten kinda skimpier than before and after my last visit I left feeing hungry which isn’t how I should feel given what I paid. Their falafel is excellent and their food is much better than Aladdin’s overall but be prepared to wait and wait and wait even for a simple order. The atmosphere isn’t much to write home about – think Parma diner with a few token Arabic accoutrements sprinkled here and there.

Delicious food and excellent, friendly service. Very reasonable prices and high quality food. Ordered the vegetarian sampler, falafel with fries and fava stew. We live on the other side of town, but we will be back often. Best find in a long time!

This is probably the best Lebanese restaurant in all of Cleveland. The place is very clean and the family who owns it is very nice and always welcoming. Food is always fresh and I’ve never had a bad meal. Some of my favorites are the chicken tawook, the gyro sandwich, the fallalfel which I guarantee you will never find any like it and for dessert the namoura a Lebanese pastry made with semolina.

Fantastic! Im a vegetarian so I am always looking for fresh healthy places too eat. This is it!!! The family is so kind and welcoming and they make you feel at home. I am a heavily tattooed woman and many small ethnic restaurants give me looks based on the fact that their cultures dont get tattooed. This never happened here. On the contrary they have always been wonderful! A favorite of mine is the baba ganooj. The smokey flavor is heavenly! They will make meatless options for you if you ask. The fatoosh salad is a favorite of mine. Try the felafels, dip them in hummus or baba. True they do have a small staff, but the quality of the food, graciousness and general gratitude to you for choosing them to dine at out weigh any wait.

This is the worst middle eastern restaurant in Cleveland. The waitresses are so overwhelmed. The food is bland and the portions are tiny. Stay away.

This place is awesome as usual. Some of the best tasting/​healthy/​inexpensive meals around. The family that owns the place are such sweet and caring people!

Had the braised lamb shanks with stuffed grape leaves and barley soup appetizers. Everything was wonderful. Very nice subtle seasonings. The baklava was a sweet end to a great meal. I would like to note this resaurant is emaculate. The staff is kind and very attentive to service. Pick a nite and try is fine restaurant.

Great casual lebanese restaurant in parma. The chicken tawook and mujhadara plate were delicious. The delicious sambocas are like hybrid samosa spring rolls and the pita nachos are just as they sound. The namura dessert is very sweet coconut pastry. I think the best item was the mujhadara plate. I’d like to try the lamb shank next time as they did not have it today. The entrees are between 9 to 16 $ and appetizers between 6 – 10 $. Its a very affordable place serving fresh and flavorful food.

Love, love, love their falafel burger and lentil soup! They’re always so friendly and you don’t have to wait long for your food.

Stopped by in the afternoon and ordered carry out. The establishment is very clean and nicely furnished. The owner was very friendly and helped me with my selection. The menu is fantastic, as it offers a wide variety of dishes. I ordered a greek salad and the lamb shish kebab (wrap), with Lentil soup on the side. The lamb meat was juicy and fresh, perfectly prepared and spiced. Greek salad was also great (amazing dressing) and so was the soup. Portions are a good size. I highly recommend this establishment and will defenitly return soon. Better then Aladdin’s based on my first experience.

Love this place! Better than Aladdin’s and they try to locally source as much as possible. More affordable than Aladdin’s also.
Only negative is that they are very under staffed so you may end up waiting a while.
Wish they did smoothies and fresh juice like Aladdin’s. Then I would be a 100% convert.

My partner and I just discovered this place and have been there twice in as many days. Its fantastic!

What a great place to enjoy Mediterranean style or Middle Eastern style foods.
The food is excellent quality for the price, the service is good, and the owners are friendly and enjoy their customers. The lamb dishes in particular are outstanding.
This is one of the best restaurants in this area of Parma/​Seven Hills for the price, and a welcome change from the fast food junk in the area.
We also used them to cater our son’s wedding rehearsal dinner, and they did not disappoint! The food was outstanding for that.

Got carry out. The food was good. Fast, friendly service. The hummus wasn’t my fave but loved the Kafta Burger and Greek Salad.

Love this place, they have great selection of Lebaneese food, so fresh and made me feel like I’m at home and my mom cooked the food. My kids are so picky and I was surprised how much they loved the food. Service is great, super friendly.
The best stuffed grape leaves I’ve ever ate.

Wonderful food! Excellent hummus and the lentil soup is a great side. Very clean, relaxing environment and great service. This place is definitely worth checking out.

The space is very new and very clean and tidy. Friendly staff greet you and make you feel welcome right away. They were also helpful with recommendations on lunch specials. I had lentil soup and the grilled salmon pita. It was good. I didn’t jump through the ceiling after eating it but I would have this again. For some reason I didn’t feel that the salmon was very fresh. Nonetheless it was still good with the veggies they put along side it. I’ll review again when I have a full dinner. I would recommend to give this place a try.

I’ve eaten food from Tarboosh 4 times now, both dine-​in and carry-​out. I am a big fan of this place, and I hope it does well and sticks around. I am a big fan of Lebanese food in general, but my husband is not so he refuses to ever eat at Aladdin’s. But he will agree to get food from Tarboosh because they also have American foods on the menu (philly sandwich, burgers, popcorn shrimp, french fries, etc.)
I’ve sampled a lot of different foods here, and I’ve liked everything I’ve tried. Some of the standouts were: curry sambosas (4 large egg roll shaped samosas served with a yogurt dipping sauce for $ 4.95), Tarboosh salad, lentil soup, and Koshari (try it!). My family had the Greek roll, vegetarian appetizer sampler (they’ll substitute falafels for the kibbeh), gyro, and shish kebab, and everyone was happy with their food.
The place seems clean, the service is always friendly, and the prices are very reasonable. I like that they offer some healthier options for a quick take-​out dinner.

Had a great experience here. Our waitress, which was the owners wife I believe, was extremely friendly and accommodating. The restaurant was clean and had a great ambiance. Since middle eastern food is our favorite, my boyfriend and I get excited and order way too much food! Well who really cares, everyone loves leftovers and stuffing their faces right?
We loved the grape leaves and lentil soup, both tasty! The chicken kabobs I ordered were flavorful and moist! Their hummus has a bit too much tahini for my liking. This may be random, but the salad dressing they have was delicious whatever it was. Very light and just perfect, I’m really not a huge dressing person so it was kind of a BIG deal ha.
We finished our meal with dessert. Our waitress/​owners wife recommended her specialty, which she makes fresh daily! I can’t recall it’s name, but it was delightful! Not too sweet, custard cake sort of, with crunchy grated pistachios on top. It was simple and perfect! Next time I come here I will figure this little gem of a desserts name.
Tarboosh will give you that warm and inviting family atmosphere. Enjoy!

If you’re heading down Pleasant Valley Road past Normandy High School heading east and toward civilization, you can fight your way over just past the mr. chicken and hang a left across from the squalid marc’s shopping center and eat in this place.
I went there slightly desperate and anxious. I needed to self-​medicate and they didn’t offer beer or liquor. I brought my own and swilled it from a flask. Don’t judge. I ordered a lot of things from here that you’d like. Things like hummus and samosas and zatar with a spoon. The people were so nice. They aren’t jaded or bitter or out to squeeze a buck out of you. It was refreshing to actually meet real people who want to sell good foreign food and make a living off of it.
The food was really good and sitting alone in a great restaurant with a scary name in a really foul town like Parma can be cathartic. You know you get to leave and if you do so with a good meal for less than an ass-​piercing price, you feel like you stole one off of the ugly side of reality. You know how it is supposed to work and you know you’re supposed to be a little bitter and a bit angsty about the restaurant-​patron interaction but here you get none of that.
I really like zatar. I imagine you can put it on anything and up the taste factor –boom– just like that by dipping it in zatar. You can dip anything in it and it sticks and adds crunch etc. and you’re glad you did.
Thanks, Tarboosh. You reaffirmed my hope that there are still real people doing honest things in this ugly, sorrowful world where people eat at red lobster and dip things in butter that ought not be dipped in butter.