{"id":2718,"date":"2010-10-16T00:54:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T05:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2011-09-19T00:23:40","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T05:23:40","slug":"tabouli-2930-devine-street-b-early-october-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2718","title":{"rendered":"Tabouli, 2930 Devine Street #B: Early October 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I've written about this spot on Devine Street in the Momo's<\/i>, Half Moon<\/i>, Za's<\/i> plaza two other times, first for Al-Amir<\/a>, and then for Saffron<\/a>. Curiously, all three were middle-eastern restaurants.<\/p>\n

I liked Al-Amir<\/i> (which is still around at 3 other locations), never got around to Saffron<\/i> and generally liked Tabouli<\/i> though from time-to-time it had some rough edges. It was a little variable, and over the last few months they made some odd choices -- for instance, their namesake salad used to be served on a flat elliptical plate with a nice slice of leaf lettuce on top and a lemon wedge for squeezing, but the last few times I got it, it was glopped into a cereal bowl with no lettuce or lemon. I do have to say that the last time I went there, in late September, I had the feeling that there was some kind of staffing problem ongoing in the kitchen and there seemed to be a lot of to-and-froing to produce a plate of falafel. That said, it was a nice place for long lunches on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. (And often, the owner, or manager perhaps, would take a personal interest and offer a free sample of something or bring out hot tea).<\/p>\n

I'm not exactly sure when they closed. As I said above, they were open in late September, but I noticed the place dark Thursday night when I stopped by Za's<\/i>. As it was fairly early in the evening, I suspected the worst, and going back at prime-time Friday confirmed it. There's no note of any kind on the door, but calling the phone number gives a \"this number has been temporarily disconnected\" message. Perhaps the \"temporarily\" is some sign for hope, but in that case I would have expected a explanatory note on the door...<\/p>\n

UPDATE 19 September 2011<\/b> -- Well, I didn't see this one coming! Al Amir<\/i> is to return to this spot:<\/p>\n

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I've written about this spot on Devine Street in the Momo's, Half Moon, Za's plaza two other times, first for Al-Amir, and then for Saffron. Curiously, all three were middle-eastern restaurants. I liked Al-Amir (which is still around at 3 other locations), never got around to Saffron and generally liked Tabouli though from time-to-time it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[111,348,347,27,3,687],"class_list":["post-2718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-devine-street","tag-lebanese","tag-middle-eastern","tag-pizza","tag-restaurants","tag-sims-avenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}