Al Zaytouna

Hate to be the first reviewer, but this place is average...staff is friendly, but the food is nothing special, but it was fresh!

Anonymous

Yelp

Mar 3, 2025

5

Absolutely delicious! Will be ordering again. Food was fresh and yummy, cooked to perfection!

Anonymous

Yelp

Nov 30, 2024

4

First time at this place. At first thought, I was thinking this place is small but when I walked in, it is small but nice. The restaurant is very clean. They have music playing in the background. Nice setting. Ordered the chicken kabob platter. It wasn't what I had in mind. The kabob is not on a stick. It's a stickless kabob but it was very good. The mixed green salad was pretty good too (missing from the picture). Didn't too much care for the rice and I love rice. I would recommend people to try out Al Zaytouna. Forgot to take picture when I got the food. Sorry bout the half plate ?.

Anonymous

Yelp

Oct 10, 2024

5

If you have not had North African doid, this is the place to start. Try the cous cous - the ultimate comfort food. Or taste any sandwich - and see what you have been missing. But everything is delicious. My most recent visit proves that Al Zautouna is a welcome addition to the neighborhood. I feel so grateful that this family decided to plant their restaurant here, in Bella Vista. Until now, this neighborhood was woefully bereft of North African offerings. Every time we buy food here, I am reminded that it is not easy to settle here when you are from another country. And yet the Al Zaytouna family has done just that - and in doing so they have given us the gift of Tunisian cuisine - an exceptionally tasteful and energizing set of options. I urge you to give this restaurant a try. There is nothing like it anywhere else in the city. It is refreshingly different and totally satisfying - and very healthy also. Al Zaytouna prepares exceptional Tunisian food. Their sandwhiches and entrees are fresh, with real vegetables ( not the ho hum kind), and authentic flavors. Their cous cous entrees remind me of meals from my childhood. The owner and his wife are warm and welcoming; this restaurant stayed open through the pandemic serving as long as people needed food. There are few restaurants ( despite all the hype), that really seem to care about the actual quality of the food they serve. This is one that really does care - and it shows. Everything is consistently terrific.

Anonymous

Yelp

Sep 11, 2023

5

I order delivery occasionally (always the same thing-- chicken kebob salad and hummus) and the food is always so fresh. You can tell the lettuce is chopped fresh (and not from a bag) and the grilled chicken on the salad is still warm when it arrives. The hummus is so creamy, my favorite in the city

Anonymous

Yelp

Sep 2, 2023

2

Al Zaytouna is one of the rare Tunisian restaurant in Philadelphia. It’s a small restaurant and their location is just perfect. I was expecting to get really good food but unfortunately I didn’t. I ordered appetizer falafel which was very tasteless and very dry. Falafel had almost no flavor. Main course I had mixed kabob that came with grilled chicken, lamb and kofta. The main course served with grilled vegetables, hummus, rice and mixed greens salad. Chicken and lamb were very average but kofta was good. Rice was cold and it was very dry. Salad was fresh and hummus was just delicious. Their food quality wasn’t good but their portions were very generous. The restaurant’s atmosphere was below the average and it wasn’t clean at all. I was the only one at restaurant and I saw three tables were dirty and this is not acceptable at all. The manager or maybe the owner was very nice man but he wasn’t very good server. They should hire some professional servers which can make really good difference for their business. Their menu was pretty rich and their prices were very reasonable. It’s a BYOB restaurant also.

Anonymous

Yelp

Jun 9, 2023

1

I’m usually a huge fan of this restaurant but today I had a terrible experience and won’t be going back again. I asked for dressing on the side but it was mixed in my salad & the salad was completely warm and wilted. The cucumbers in my salad were inedible. We also ordered wings which are usually our favorite but half of them were just bones with meat on one part of them and very dry and over cooked. Our fries were also very soggy and covered in oil and were inedible. I’m very disappointed considering I have had positive experiences before. We spent $45 on food and could barely eat it.

Anonymous

Yelp

May 30, 2023

4

Our server was very kind and overall attentive. The falafel and hummus were amazing appetizers. The chicken shawarma platter- the chicken, hummus and salad were good the rice was a little disappointing. The restaurant itself was HOT temperature wise, the lighting wasn’t great either.

Anonymous

Yelp

Jun 3, 2022

1

First time. Ordered and paid for fried falafel app to go. Waited over 20 minutes and just left with nothing. Now I'm hungry and cranky. How can 3 people in an empty restaurant take so long to prepare such a simple item? Can't comment on falafel, a lot of reviews say it's not great, maybe I'm better off.