Ali Baba’s Middle Eastern Cuisine

I’ve been to the Bloor/​Runnymede location a few times and enjoyed the shawarmas so I was really excited to learn that they were opening in the food court of my office building. Unfortunately, this one does not live up to the other location.
These are the items I’ve tried:
Beef shawarma wrap — dry, tasteless, fatty meat and very, very stingy with the toppings. They wrapped it very loose and the pita was breaking apart. Threw half of it out.
Falafel wrap — not that bad but not good either. Again, the girl is painfully stingy with the toppings and said, as a one off, she would not «charge» me for some tabbouleh in the sandwich — like all Middle Eastern places I go to don’t charge — WTF! Kind of felt gross after eating it.
Shish Tawook wrap — got one for me and one for my husband. It wasn’t too bad but they really need to add more sauce to enhance the flavours. When I say stingy, it’s like a tablespoon of tahini/​garlic sauce they add. Also, wrapped loose so food went everywhere. Both of us kind of felt gross after eating this too.
Beef samosa — little meat, extremely greasy.
Grape leaves — ice cold and leaves were not tender.
I saw them making a shawarma platter for someone and they put just a dollop of hummus. I also heard another girl asking for more sauce on her chicken and they only put a drop more — LOL!
Anyway, it always has a huge line-​up but I think that’s mainly due to the lack of good restaurants in the food court. Also, the food looks like it would be delicious but I think that’s where people get fooled.
After trying it a few times and obviously not being pleased, I think I’ll pass from now on.