Gitana Restaurant

Waited an hour for the food and it was overcooked and soaked in dressing. The hookah they took 45 minutes to bring out and never changed the charcoal even though I asked no less than 10 times for more charcoal. I regret going back to this place it has turned into an absolute disaster from a customer service and quality standpoint. This is no way to treat a customer and shrug it off when I complain about how bad the service is. There is definitely a lot of improvement in service. Had to revise.

Today's experience at Central Casting was priceless. All the what to do and what not to do that was given today in class will take anyone who is pursuing their dreams as an actor a very long way. I want to say thank you to the entire department at Central Casting that works hard to make sure that these are always available to to ensure that actors like me are successful in this industry. Thank you Laura and Patrick. You two did a wonderful job. I can't wait until the next. I'm working on that Oscar just like Brad Pitt just won.

Terrible! Did not know it was a hookah bar and there’s NO accommodation for non smokers. I asked to be seated away from others who smoked and told the waiter that I have severe asthma and allergies. He said no problem. The restaurant was virtually empty and within minutes he seated 2 people RIGHT next to me who immediately fired up a hookah! WTAF!? I had to keep my mask on between bites of food& drink but that didn’t protect my eyes from puffing up! I asked that the tv be turned up so I could watch the NFL Sunday game. Had to ask 3 times before it was BARELY turned up. When I first arrived I had to hunt for someone to let me be seated. It was nearly 5 minutes of walking around and standing and calling out “hello” before anyone showed up. The younger of the 2 waiters was quite surly. Had to ask for the table to be cleaned before I sat down because there was food all over all the tables. Could not get a refill on my drink because the waiter was AWOL, but he started showing up with charcoal a lot and would rush away without checking on me. I bed to get up and follow him to ask for service. The Falaffal was ok with pickles and only 2 little slices of tomato. The ful medames was HORRIBLE! Overcooked, tasted weird, WAY TOO much salt, ZERO lemon or garlic flavor. Barely garnished with about 1 tsp or less of diced tomato and hardly any fresh parsley which was over minced into mush. The pita bread was so dry and tasted like cardboard. They serve CHARBUCKS iced tea and refills are NOT free and VERY EXPENSIVE to begin with and they seemed resentful that I asked for water with lemon and I got no lemon. . ALL Charbucks restaurants I have ever been to provide free refills and I told the waiter so and he had the lame excuse that “this isn’t Charbucks” The iced tea at Charbucks is the only I thing there I can drink. I cannot gag their burnt “coffee” Swill down. I have NEVER had to sit a negative review, and don’t want to hurt anyone’s business, and my negative review will have ZERO impact as this is really highly rated by most people and that’s great for them, but this is mainly for those who may want to know the things I learned the hard way. I HOPE the management reads this and may be a little more considerate and accommodating for non smokers and people who are vulnerable around smoke. I wish I had left before the smoking incident went down, but was starving and really craving Mediterranean food. Fool me once.

Pros: Food is great! Lots of options and an overall great menu. The hookah is very good too, the people preparing it know what they're doing and do it well. Cons: They seem very understaffed, it takes a great while to get a server's attention since there is probably only 1 or 2 of them for the whole place. It also takes a long time for the kitchen to send out the food you ordered.