Darwish Restaurant Bar - Houston

A good place for the Mediterranean food and serivce was ok. Hookah we took was not so great. Food taste is good.

Great food! fantastic atmosphere! Service staff was wonderful! And if you go there at Friday nights you will enjoy a belly dance .This is a very nice place with traditional Ottoman style sofas and old persian fashion decor with hookah smoke.

The service is TOP TIER! The food is decent. Friendly environment. The prices is OVER the hill. It’s overpriced and over charged. Mandatory tip which I understand, but at least give the costumer heads up. For five people, we provided our own drink and we ordered single food plate, beef and chicken and 5 beers…. We were charged 500$ with 87$ tip

Great ambiance, inconsistent food, poor service. No tap water, bottle only, so you WILL be paying for drinks. Our server didn't do a great job at answering our questions or helping us pick items (it was our first time and the menu is all digital and not very well written). She was kinda just there, gave one word answers, took down what we said, and then left. Never really came back around to ask us how the food was and was hard to get a hold of when we needed the check. There were maybe 3 other tables eating at the time, so it wasn't that busy. Also, automatic 18% gratuity for a party of 4 and subtotal of $75. Not cool. The place itself looks fantastic and is pretty clean. The food, while it tasted good, some items were cooked more than others. We got a big platter with chicken, beef, cornish hen, and goat. Everything was great except for the beef some pieces were juicy, some pieces were dry, some pieces were cooked so tough that we couldn't eat them. Could be better with more attentive, customer facing service.

I visited my cousin after 15 years. My cousin and I spent about 2 hours in this restaurant. The bill was $132, and there was a little section to leave tip which I left them $40 tip which is almost 30% of the bill. The total bill was $172 at the end. When I came back to my cousin’s place, I took a look at the bill and saw that the actual bill was $110. They already included 20% tip on that bill and brought me a check for $132 and left another spot for tip. I ended up paying $172. I am not mad/sad about the tip I left, because I left tips even bigger than that. But there is a different story when someone tries to take advantage of me.