Cedar Garden

This is my all time favorite restaurant! The salads are always so fresh and the garlic spread can’t be beat! love it

Cedar Garden, in my opinion is the best middle eastern restaurant in the area. that said the Cedar Garden restaurant that my wife and I frequented was in Dearborn Hts, sorry to say it closed down resently. I live in Westland Mi, it will be well worth the drive for there food.

I’m updating my review and changed it to five stars because I feel that the food has gotten even better in the past year. The schwarma is excellent, and the garlic dip is one of the best I’ve ever had. I’ve yet to have a meal here that wasn’t great. Service at this restaurant is usually fast enough.

This is the best.
Yes, I’m going there.
I’ve been going here for 16 years and it’s always been the best.
The creamier hummus.
The perfectly dressed fattoush.
The affordable prices.
The delicious sandwich options.
The best crushed lentil soup.
The not too intense garlic sauce.
They just slay it every single time. It’s classic and never gets old.
A must try for any East Sider.

I love love cedar garden. Its my favorite place in the world, fresh and healthy Mediterranean Cruise absolutely tasty:) I have been coming here since I remember. The food is absolutely to die for. The stuffs are sweatest people in town. I high recommend this dinner you won’t be disappointed.

Delicious middle eastern food. Our kids — and us — love the dips (hummus, baba ghanoush, «garlic dip» aka toum) and the fruit smoothies. Great lamb/​chicken shawarma and kabobs. Recommend starting with either the crushed lentil or lemon chicken rice soup. You will get inconsistent service but everyone is generally very nice.

The food here is probably my favorite in the entire Grosse Pointe/​St. Clair Shores area. I adore the lentil soup, chicken or lamb and hummus and the smoothies. I typically get take-​out. Prices are fair.
As others have mentioned, the atmosphere is not ideal. When I go out to eat, my #1 concern is the quality of the food and this place knocks it out of the park. If you like restaurants where you have to pay twice as much for perfect décor and a waitstaff that coddles you and boosts your ego, go elsewhere — or get take-​out.

Pretty good. I’ve gotten carry out a few times, never eaten in.
My only complaint is that once I went and was pretty much ignored for 5 – 10 mins waiting to put my order in. And the prices on the online menu are not accurate AT ALL– they are just a bit higher– which was disappointing.
Good is pretty good– salad doesn’t have nearly enough lettuce.

My very favorite middle eastern restaurant. What judge all others by. This is always a stop while we’re in town. Shish combo get you everything you need to try. Love the baba here, smokey flavor makes it extra yummy.

Great food and prices. The Chicken Swarma Salid, Kafka and garlic sauce was fantastic! Sandwich menu is great with most costing only 5 to 6 dollars. A real find in SCS!

I’ve been a fan of Cedar Garden for ages! I have never once received bad food or service.
Their food is always fresh and delicious.
Want to stuff your face with salad and garlic sauce? This is the place to do it. I eat so much of their garlic sauce I offend myself I stink like garlic so bad ahaha!
My fav is the the appetizer trio, it comes with hoummous, baba, tabouli. I get that and a fatoosh and throw down!
The fresh/​raw juices are phenom too! I love a carrot and apple combo, so tasty, refreshing and good for you.
I know this place has gotten some bad reviews or flack but as I said they have never done me wrong so I will continue to go until I see or receive bad food and or service.
Get the garlic sauce!!! GET IT!!!

Was in St. Clair Shores and stopped her for lunch with a friend. Read some reviews talking about the décor.when I want good Middle Eastern food the décor is the last thing I am concerned about.
Having worked in Dearborn I have hit many places. Cedar Garden food was very solid from soup to salad to entrée. Everything was fresh and flavorful. If I did not live so far away I would be a regular.

Decent middle eastern food. Nothing special but not bad. Service, food, and prices were all average at best. Hummus was really good as was the bread. I ordered shush tawook sandwich it was ok but chicken was kind of fatty and mostly dark meat. Chicken shawarma was decent and the boneless chicken with rice was ok but I’ve had better. Dining room is dated. Average all-​around.

I convinced a large group to go here because of the ratings, however none of us had a good experience. The chicken was very dry. Service wasn’t bad but not very fast. Prices are high.

The food is delicious from salads to bread and garlic to entrees. The place could use a little update inside and the prices are a little high. But the food is so good it’s worth it.

I really like the food here, but the owners are always fighting very loudly and it kind of ruins the experience. There always yelling at each other and Arabic even when it’s really quiet in there. It makes for a very awkward lunch.
Their food is so good but I feel like they need Robert Irvine from the food network to come stop in.

The food is good, your standard middle eastern dishes you can order anywhere. The hot baked bread is a plus plus. I smother it with the fresh garlic mayo. This is where I go to eat lemony crushed lentil soup, streaming hot bread, fattoush salad and a sandwich. .ALWAYS delicious.
Another review mentioned the decour, yes it is tired but it’s clean. It could use new carpet but like the owner says. If I change everything I have to raise prices. If I raise prices people will go somewhere else.

Fattoush salad. Garlic dip and bread is the best around.
Love the chicken shawarma.
Service is great.
It’s clean.
I didn’t like any middle eastern food until I tried Cedar Gardens.
Family is very nice that owns it.
Don’t pass up trying this place.

This place has in average very good reviews, and that’s what drew me in in the first place. However, all I can speak for is my own experience today, and it wasn’t all that great at all. I love all kinds of Middle Eastern food, from falafel, to tabouli, to kabobs, hummus, fatoush salad, chicken and lamb shwarma, etc… but I usually start experiencing a new restaurant via their fatoush salad with lamb shwarma. That’s what I ordered today, and unfortunately it was the blandest fatoush salad I’ve ever had. The ingredients were actually very fresh and crisp, but the dressing makes or breaks a good fatoush salad, and this dressing was mostly oil and not much else. A good fatoush salad dressing has a fun balance of oil, vinegar, lemon, sumac, parsley, etc… This dressing again was mostly oil, with not much flavor… so it was very unimpressive. The lamb shwarma meat was also not the best I’ve ever had. It was hard, a bit dry, and not as savory as I expect, but it was nice and warm when served on my salad so I’ll give them that. One good thing to mention about the salad was the size of the salad, I think it’s of a good fair quantity for the price. On another note, it was nice to get a basket of pita breads quickly upon sitting down, but these pita breads were very «un-​middle eastern». they don’t have that nice warm split, relatively thin layer, and comforting taste of a good pita bread, instead it was thick and cakey, and tasted very much like a dinner roll… So it’s more like a dinner roll in the shape of a pita bread… disappointing… And what made my experience really uncomfortable was that the waitress and the cook were arguing and yelling over if an order were 2 chicken shwarma sandwiches or chicken shwarma salads or whatever that was about… you don’t do that in front of your customers… The ambience is ok standard, but a bit dirty, though I feel the place is probably nice and quiet most of the time… However, I was very tense during my lunch because of the arguing in front of me, and because the food was just not up to par. I finished my meal wishing I could get another lunch hour from work to go to a good restaurant and actually enjoy my food… but alas my lunch hour is over, and I’m actually full. so it’ll have to wait for another day.
I would not recommend this restaurant. Try Sahara’s down the street on Harper =)

Huge disappointment.
I went here based on local St. Clair Shores people telling me how great it is, and numerous Unilocal reviews bragging about the quality. I was hugely disappointed.
The atmosphere is horrible. It’s drab, tacky, and distasteful. The place reeks like a greasy spoon. I almost left when I walked in, but figured I was there, may as well give it a shot. Wish I would have left…
The menu is a cluttered mess, and doesn’t really explain what you’re getting. I ordered the hummus and lamb entrée, and my date ordered beef tenderloin shish kabob, and a fetush salad.
The salad was decent, nothing special. Her tenderloin shish kabob were horrible. Over-​cooked, dry, and bland. Nothing else on the plate, horrible presentation. My «hummus and lamb» was disgusting. It was literally a pile of oily, tiny, over-​cooked lamb bits in the middle of a huge pile of hummus with some pine nuts.
The hummus was actually good, but everything else was disgusting. My «entrée» was $ 14, and seemed much more like an appetizer. That said, I felt like I had to order something with hummus as they don’t really include it with their meals. I’m used to Middle Eastern places PILING you with hummus and tabouli, but not this joint. Everything is extra here. Go to Ikes in Warren. They include one or the other with every entrée (I love that you can go to Ikes with two people, one order tabouli and the other hummus and get everything with your meal, and there’s definitely enough to share at Ikes).
Our waitress was terrible. She talked incessantly to the table behind us, ignored us the whole time, and complained about «working 5 days a week»… She literally said the phrase «do you know what it’s like being here 5 days per week» 7 – 8 times to the table behind us, as if it was such a tragedy that she had to work for a living. Maybe her parents owned the joint or something, but sorry Dollface, most people work 5+ days per week, and they work a helluva lot harder than she does. Get a new job if all you’re going to do is complain about your current form of employment.
This is a place I won’t be returning to. I’m looking forward to trying Hummus Grill in Eastpointe, and I absolutely love Ikes, my go-​to East side Middle Eastern spot. Never again Cedar Garden, your food is garbage. I feel bad for people that actually think this place is good. They’re probably comparing it to Steve’s Back Room down the street on Jefferson, another huge Eastside Middle Eastern food fail…