Jerusalem Restaurant

My first experience earlier this year was amazing. Specially their monday lunch deal was superb, they served kabab and the quality was decent. My recent two visits with large group have been bad to worse. They are serving stale and foul smelling chicken, the owner stopped serving kabab for Monday lunch. The food tray is filled with dry food, it just went south. I am never going back.

I only went because I bought the groupon, but after getting there I regretted wasting my money on the groupon. The food was terrible and definitely over salted. The service was meh, and overall the atmosphere just had a weird vibe. I wanted to leave as soon as possible. The only reason I give it 2 stars is because they had a belly dancer perform for a bit. There are so many better options in the area. Don’t waste your money here.

Not a fan. Decent prices, but the food quality could be better.
Enjoyed the bellydancing & the service was polite.
The place itself is a little run down & could use improvements.
More meat dishes would be great (didn’t have enough variety).
Food needs more flavour, I found it quite bland.
2 stars because the service was great, but food not so much.
Would not return.

Excellent Mediterranean and MidleEast cuisine. Even better good atmosphere pleasant staff, Clean and tasty food. Enjoyed the entertainment the belly dancers.

THIS IS NOT at all like the North York location. It’s completely different. The food was mediocre and as a vegetarian, surprisingly, all I could eat was falafel and cabbage salad. The foods looked grey, old, oily and never got refilled or cleaned up. The waiter was disgusting… he kept feeling me up ever time he came over to talk to us and kissed me on the cheek as we left… I felt really uncomfortable. The only reason we came here was because we really enjoyed the North York location and we had a Groupon for the Mississauga one. The waiter told us to not use the Groupon in the end because it was more money than paying regular price or something? Anyway, if you want to experience this restaurant, go to the North York location and don’t bother with this one.

Went here for lunch… friendly service. Good variety for a buffet style.
Lot’s of greens and meats.

This review does not echo for the N. York restaurant, as this restaurant apparently a different owner, however, could learn from the older more successful restaurants.
I visited Jerusalem Mississauga last year with family and had a very good experience.
I visited last night with family again and it was a $ 225 waste of money.
The good points were:
The service which was prompt and cordial, the roast lamb, the bread/​pizza, the chicken liver, the kebabs, and the baklava
To balance this the negative points were:
a shrimp dish that was perhaps 3 days old of reheating, absolutely awful. The whole ’tilapia’ which I had to spit out, something was very wrong with it as it had the consistency of jello. the «Basa» turned out to be over cooked and dry squid. all the rice dishes looked weathered as well and no one in the family touched them.
House wine was some of the poorest wine I had ever had, tasted of sugar and chemicals, I couldn’t believe this was being served in a restaurant.
Hardly anything on the buffet was labelled properly.
Other dishes looked old and reheated, family was not impressed with anything.
Overall cleanliness was lacking.
I left and later felt ill and needed to take a lot of digestives and bitters to calm my system, I am a world traveller with a rock hard system, hardly anything rocks me but something there obviously did.
For a $ 26 pp dinner buffet, this was atrocious.
My entire family will never return to this restaurant, and likely never visit any Jerusalem restaurant again.
I hope the other two Jerusalem restaurants do not slip into this abysmal stated, as their quality has NEVER been a question like the Mississauga location is.
I hate giving bad reviews, but I really had to here and warn others.

Good food — lots of rice dishes and fish, chicken, misc. things I did not know but I tried and it was good. The lunch prices are totally worth it! Good salad bar too. Baklava is extra tho. A must try — excellent service too :)

* Beware of payment scams from these guys. They have overcharged me with proof and was dealt with unpleasantly.
It’s hard for me to give this restaurant any more stars than it should. Personally, I was so distraught on how I was treated that I don’t recommend anybody to go in this restaurant at all.
Office gathering occurred in this restaurant. Eager to try out the restaurant and the type of food (middle eastern) in the area. Food was nothing special, maybe it’s just not for me. The food was too salty and missing the flavourful food that I was expecting. The weird thing, they have images of food that was posted in their websites and restaurant that wasn’t even served in the lunch package, things like shrimp and other beef stuff. Oh well, no biggie it is what it is.
The real issue is when it came time to pay. The receipt machine is not working and could not write me a written receipt. Instead they give me a sheet with the total cost without any breakdown. Anyways I was generous to agree with everything in assumption that lunch was 12 bucks per person plus drinks plus tip. The cost is about 154 including tip and paid the bill but had to come back to get a printed receipt so I can claim the bill. I later found out that the lunch menu is 9’dollars a person and the total cost didn’t make senses. The total bill would’ve been just over hundred bucks. I was overcharged 40 bux. I spoke to manager and he agreed and called over the waiter. I spoke calmly and just wanted a proper payment and get refunded the extra no big deal mistakes happen. But these guys didn’t wanna do it, and at first they just gave me 5 dollars back and confused me. Eventually they gave me 20 dollars more, threw me the money and left me standing alone.
Beware of this restaurant. If it happened to me, it might have happened to many others unknowingly. There’s no need to post food pictures. Bad service can’t even enjoy the food.

My family and I went here for lunch as we wanted to try some middle eastern food. When we got there, it didn’t look very impressive. Their selection of foods was sub par and like some of the other reviewers, many items were too salty. There was little selection of desserts and a pathetic variety of «fresh fruits» which looked like they weren’t even washed.
What really turned me off was the cutlery and glasses were NOT washed. I could actually see hand prints on my glass cup as well as each of my family members’ cups. Should have taken a photo as anyone could clearly see the palm prints. SO gross.
I would not come here again.

I came here with work colleagues and was excited to try a bunch of dishes at the lunch buffet AYCE. However, there’s some dross here amongst the good stuff. I think the most enjoyable was the well-​trodden path of hummus, etc. and the sesame cookies.
Complimentary breads come — pita and herby and cheesy bread. The last 2 were surprisingly bland. I grabbed a plate of eggplant, farro with beef (too salty), brussel sprouts (why were the stalks still on?) Roasted chicken in several varieties were good, but you can’t go wrong with chicken. There were several fish dishes which might not look appetizing to some, but I tried 2 fish dishes and they were tasty even after being under the grill a while. The stuffed chicken dish was a bit dry and I was not sure if this was actually a regional dish. There were some dishes with cream sauces which didn;t try to save my heart. Everything seemed lukewarm may be because it was after the lunch rush.

Spacious. Nice place for a social gathering. Halal, perfectly cooked beef, lamb, mutton. Plenty of baba ganoush, hummus, different pickles, salads to complement the meat items.
We went for a friday night dinner buffet and it was an amazing experience. The staff was very friendly. Enquired about our food and drinks couple of times which we found really pleasing and humble. Such cordial inquiries is hard to find in a buffet place.
I would surely recommend this place to my friends and colleagues.

We bought the deal on groupon for four person. The food was very bad, with a lot of oil and salty. kebab, the most famous middle eastern food, was very dry and over salted. Even the service wasn’t good, they brought a jar of water and didn’t ask if we want something else to drink!
The Worst restaurant and service I’ve ever seen.

Totally meh. Salads were ok but frequently over salted. No veg options in hot food and no hot veg dishes other than potatoes. Deserts were totally underwhelming, especially the hospital cup jello shoots.
Markham location is so much better.
Quite disappointing.

Food was good, but not worth the price. Meat kebabs were pretty dry but there were a lot of other options and the service was very friendly. CAUTION: groupon not valid Saturday’s! Ended up paying full price but server was nice enough to use the groupon cost towards that nights dinner. ($ 30/​person — more expensive than most ayce or buffets). Otherwise good experience, had belly dancers and music for entertainment. Would only come back here with a groupon.

Friendly and relaxed atmosphere. Wonderfully multi-​cultural family run. It’s our second visit and both times have been great. The food has been fresh and tasty. Tonight’s waitress was attentive and welcoming. This is a great Middle-​Eastern buffet and would recommend it. Great last minute dinner choice when you’re looking for something different.

The food here is healthy and freshly made. They keep it coming all night.
However I dont find the flavours particularly exciting. The potatoes and chicken kebabs were dry and the beef ones were undercooked.
The nice thing is when I told the staff about the improperly cooked food they werent defensive. They wanted to know exactly which foods needed improvement and they told the chef what was wrong right away and asked them to correct it.
Nice staff. I recommend it if you like middle eastern food.
But the desserts are limited and are lame.

Nice place to have a meal and if you have Groupon like Bernie C did then its even awesomer place to eat. Ok Lets get down to logistics:
I went their on a Saturday as my friend was having a bachelor party so we wanted diner with entertainment.
The Food: They have a lot of variety as it was a buffet. there lamb was soooo tender and tasty. their grill fish was quite good as it went well with rice and hummus. Their desert choices were quite decent as well.
Service: Our server was really great and accommodating with separate billing. She was give with bring drinks to the table. Gave us 2 free bottles of water for the groom to be as he was out of it on his first stop: D
Entertainment: the singer was quite good and was sing some in Arabic and some of them were quite famous as I have heard them as well. The belly dancer was quite good and was interacting with the customer pulling them to the floor to bust some moves with her.
Washrooms: were kept quite clean.
Price Point: compared to other similar providing restaurant its quite cheap.
For my fellow Muslim Brother and Sisters — they serve halal food and it states on their site as well.
All in all I would come here again but would love to pay with groupon for that time ;)

The buffet is extensive but like a lot of buffets the food sits out for too long and gets a little dry. Some of the items were very pleasant to my pallet others less so.
A friend and I got the dinner buffet Group-​on, so it was very affordable.

Disclaimer: Had a Groupon to come here and visited with a fellow Unilocaler (actually, he doesn’t qualify in my books yet, so he’s my 3^rd party Unilocal associate).
Good: Most meat is fairly good, especially the leg of lamb. I also loved the Turkish kebab. Other decent food items was the hummus, rice and eggplant. Great selection of desserts, which I thought were amazing.
Bad: Naan bread and garlic bread was hard and tough to eat.
Not so good, not so bad: Decent selection but not as good as the Jerusalem in North York. Salad selection was not as big. The ambiance is okay, but they had the lights off when we first got there and it seemed a bit drab. Also while they have alcoholic drinks, they don’t have a drink menu. Reasonable price for Heineken — $ 4.95.
Verdict: I would visit again, but not sure I would pay full dinner for $ 19.95. Would visit for lunch at the lower price though. Still better than Paramount (yes I’m a Paramount hater).