LAZIZE

3800 Merle Hay Rd, Des Moines
(515) 250-5703

Recent Reviews

Md. Abdullah All Sourav

The mix platter was great. Good enough for two.

Michael Reese

We've walked by this place dozens of times, and never saw anyone around. This Saturday, we decided to ring the bell, and sure enough, a helpful gentleman appeared, and my wife and I ordered two entrees (a shawarma and a kebab).There was only one person working, and he explained that it would take 20 minutes to get our food, but we were in no hurry. It actually ended up taking some time longer than 20 minutes, but the gentleman running the shop let us know, and apologized profusely.When we got our food, it was well worth the wait. both dishes were delicious. Everything was fresh, hot, and tasted great. My wife commented that she could eat the chicken kebab every day.My family loves Mediterranean food, and this is some of the best I've had in the area. It's hard to compete with Vietnam Café, just across the food court, which has great, fresh food, ready almost instantly, but if you're looking for a break from Pho and Bahn Mi, check out Lazize. You'll be glad that you did.

Hellebore Bugbee

Lazize is by far my favorite restaurant in town- I visit almost once a week (and have for months!!) Friendly staff and quick service, the food is absolutely amazing! I can’t get enough of the number 6 ? I’m so thankful to have access to this awesome place

Arun Gupta

So disappointed with the food. The pita bread was a tortilla. The meat was dry, tasteless and reheated. Garlic sauce had no garlic or flavor. Hummus was bland. The actual restaurant is a dump. The food is quite pricey. Shocked with the number of positive reviews.

Emma-Lea Jacklin Warsaw

Satisfied my sudden need for gyro very well. They kept apologizing for the wait which wasn't all the bad since it was just 15min or so. Will be back thats for sure.

Rebuilding The Republic

I love their sheesh tawook and yellow rice. The garlic sauce i buy extra of bc its so good. I moved to floroda and cant find any Mediterranean food as good as this place!

Ahmed Alanki

It needs some works to be good small restaurant.

ja sk

Pita is not fresh. Have to improve the quality for the price charged.

T. D.

The cook/server today made me feel very uneasy and the food was just ok. I would not trust this place again. I rang the bell for service at noon on a weekend. After waiting 5 minutes, someone from the business across the hall ran out to me and said the server would be there in a minute. Why did the employee from the kids play area know where the Lazize worker was? Anyway I waited another 5 minutes, and a very disheveled, frantic-looking man runs behind the counter to take my order. I figured he was just having a busy day, so I wasn't upset yet. I tried to give him my order, but he had me repeat each sentence back to him. He seemed a little out of it. He goes back to make the food and chat with a couple buddies who walk around the back to meet him. After a bit the server comes back out to take my payment. He demands straight cash because he said something along the lines of "credit card will charge you more". Something about the way he talked to me, demanded cash, and put it in his pocket rather than in a register made me feel very uneasy. 15 minutes later I got my shish tawook sandwich for $7.99, which is just ok. Not worth the ordeal ever again.

Response

The food was amazing! Absolutely delicious!We had the sampler as we wanted to try everything. There was not one thing that my wife or I considered "the best" it was all great. It takes a little while to prepare, i thnk it was about 15 minutes, but ot was all made from scratch minus the lamb as it is a rotisserie. Well worth the wait. Definitely will return.

Dean

This was possibly the best, most authentic middle eastern food I have ever eaten. Every dish was excellent from the meats to the falafel. Will be returning soon--Well done!

Abood Alhbarneh

I bought this food for 60$ this is Haram price for this food why you did this with me brother..?

Abdullah Shamail

The restaurant doesn’t even like its open. The food was alright, but the service was non existent. Just ONE person present. They had a total of 1 menu printed on white paper. An ETA of 15 minutes was given and the not so worth it food arrived in 40 minutes.Went there because of the ratings and now we think the reviews are paid.

Kim Mcneeley

Fast and very polite,very happy with them

Kevin Halfpop

Great food, great employees and quick.

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