Sahara Taste of the Middle East, El Cajon CA

Nothing special. Food lacked flavor. There are plenty of Restaurants in the area provide better and different quality. Customer service was okay, could be better. The restaurant was clean, the restroom too. Maybe I'll give them another chance later, it depends.

A fly dropped from their lemonade/soda machine, then i just threw the drink and filled it with water. Now about my order, while my friends got their orders they gave my order to another table, they swiftly tried to argue with me even after i showed them the receipt. Eventually I had to wait another 15 minutes. When my order arrived (lamb mansaf) the lamb was dry; it had mostly tough pieces of meat. So i left without eating.i hope that was just a bad day on my end.

Omg! Looking for something to beat those boring hum drum dinner vibes? This is the place to be. Delicious middle eastern food, reasonably priced. Dine in or take out, it travels well.

One of the very good middle eastern restaurants in the area. Food delicious and service great. Big shout to Bobby for great service and knowledge of menu.

Greatest Mediterranean cuisine in east san diego. Family owned and operated with authentic dishes. Sammy is the best goes out of his way for all customers. Garlic sauce is a must and they even sell it in bottles if you'd like to have their dressings at home for your home made salads. Spicy hummus is addictive and I have yet to find another place that sells chipotle hummus.

The Mediterranean salad with a side f salmon is my favorite but everything on the Keanu is great and the staff is super friendly! I love this restaurant

The food is so good. The staff is friendly! They will take custom orders with a smile. Good parking.

The customer service there was not very kind and they're running out of sauce or something cause they make a face when you ask for sauces.

Best middle eastern restaurant in east county and san diego they have great customer service great food everything taste great like home cook and all fresh and there manager Sami is great been going there for years and always same taste I recommend them if someone like arabic food.

Good place for a family
Food is delicious
Great customer service except for one lady
Needs to offer a sit up menu instead of the customers stand at the cashier to order then sit down

I am giving this one star for the flat chicken bread that i had once and it was good. Other than that NOTHING was I accepted. One day, I ordered Chicken Shawrma on phone and because I trusted them they gave me BURNED bread which means I should NOT ever trusted them. For the owners, PLEASE do NOT put chicken skin to the Shawrma. I am writing this review hoping they will improve their service and add some integrity and honesty to it [to their service ].

Outside nice, clean, comfortable. Inside even better cool AC very professional, fresh and delicious. You can also see as they cook your food through the glass. Very quick and attentive finally decided to give a review.

LITERALLY THE WORST! They don’t make their UberEats food. NOT GOOD AT DELIVERING AT ALL! We starved waiting for our food and it never came.

Friendly staff and good food
4th time visit this wonderful place. I highly recommend this middle eastern resturant to any one looking for the best meals in Iraq and middle east. The manager is very friendly person and he knows what the value of good customer service. Thanks Bobby for your great hospitality.

Never going to go there again after it was our favorite restaurant, it's definitely so disgusting experience to find "hair" in your plate, and the team didn't even seem to care at all when they saw us leaving for this reason. That's so ridicules.

Love, love, love their food. Come here about every 1-2 weeks. I work close by which is a bonus! Today was dolma and flatbread with cheese and zatar.all lip smacking good.the flavors, spices.decent prices, always enough to make 2 meals. Sometimes it is very busy and you'll need to wait, 30 mins. I try and visit off peak times.

The worst service I ever been into restaurants, they don't even greet people once they get in. I was amazed today when we got in and nobody paid attention and nobody prepared a table for us. I guess they need to be trained for good customer service.

This is the most best resturant in all over San Diego, I can’t express what a delicious food and appetizers they provide.
I’ve been there few days ago with my family we enjoyed eating yummy food.
I recommend this resturant for everyone to visit it and taste the real Mediterranean food.

It's great to have so many great places nearby and Sahara is one of the best. The location is not the greatest.think stripmall next to busy highway, but you couldn't ask for better Middle Eastern food.in southern California.

Lots of families with kids were having dinner on the Thursday night we were there, so it was quite noisy, so we opted to eat outside on the small covered "area" in front. It's actually just a wide part of the sidewalk, but it was fine.

Ordering was easy since there are large photos of the main entrees on the wall. I'm always a bit quick to order in a new place so I chose one of the specials thinking "if I like it I'll be coming back often. " My partner is a bit slower to order in a new place, but settled on a falafel plate and we shared the chicken shawarma pitas that I ordered.

The service was friendly, the price wasn't horrible, and the food came pretty quickly. We really enjoyed both the plate and pitas.exactly what you'd want in a place like this.

We'll be going back. Probably often.

Food is always delicious. Might be a bit of a wait during peak times but that's bcus it gets packed.