Amani’s Lebanese Cuisine

Name changed and not recommended!

Being of Lebanese descent and a former cook, I am an expert on Middle Eastern/​Mediterranean food. The weekday lunch buffet is awesome!!! Tabouli and salads are perfect. Many varieties of foods and soups daily. Everyone I brought in here loves this place as well. If you like REAL Lebanese food (which is the best in the region) then you have to try this place. I am officially a regular here as so many other restaurants that claim «Lebanese food» have been hit or miss at best.

I had the deboned chicken with rice and fattoush salad. It was very tasty this place is right beside my job so it is very convenient to walk over and grab a bite to eat and it helps that the food is really good.

Great place for Lebanese food. Everything tasted extremely fresh and very flavorful. Very nice interior to the restaurant — would be great place for a party/​event. Service was very attentive. I also got a visit from the owner and had a nice chat with him — always a nice touch!

The best authentic Lebanese I’ve had. The dinner platter for two is terrific and reasonably priced. The baba is incredible. I also really enjoyed the tawook and the kafta. Outdoor seating was a nice experience too.

I came in to place a carry out for a fattoush salad. The menu says shawarma can be added to salad for $ 3.95. The lady repeated my order two or three times as she entered it into the computer. Fattoush add chicken shawarma, right? Yes. I waited nearly 15 minutes, which was fine since I hadn’t called it in. As I waited a woman came in to to dine. She waited for probably two minutes, but there was not a single worker in the nearly empty dining room to greet her. She left.
I get my food. The hot chicken wasn’t packaged separately, so by time I got home my lettuce was somewhat steamed and limp. Then I notice no pita in my fattoush? How can this be? Doesn’t fattoush in Arabic translate to crumbled bread? It is the whole basis of the salad. It was iceberg lettuce, tomato, cucumber and very, emphasis on VERY, watery tasteless dressing. The entire container had at least a ¼″ of water on the bottom, probably from the lettuce, so it diluted the dressing. The shawarma was good. I picked it off the salad, ate that, and dumped the rest.
Now, I hate to leave bad reviews, especially of new businesses. I wanted to give them a chance to redeem themselves, so I called and explained the situation. The phone was handed off mid conversation without warning. I explained again that I came in for carry out and ordered a fattoush salad and it didn’t have pita in it, perhaps I got a different salad or it was forgotten. She said no, that I ordered a chicken salad. I said no, I ordered a fattoush plus shawarma. She said it then becomes a chicken salad. I pointed out that the menu says chicken can be added to any item and that she had put the order in as a «fattoush salad, add shawarma.» There isn’t even a chicken salad listed on the menu, just several salads that you can add a meat of choice to. She said she was sorry that is how they do it. She wasn’t rude, but a fattoush salad is a bread salad and it was terrible.
So, if you add meat to a salad expect a diner type salad– and if you do add hot meat, ask for it on the side so you don’t get home with steamy, soggy, limp lettuce.

We recently stopped by this amazing restaurant. We only ordered appetizers. The portions were large and incredibly delicious. I only wish we were hungrier! I wanted to taste everything on the menu. The staff was friendly and hospitable. Looking forward to our next visit!

This restaurant just opened in May 2014. Located just south of 15 Mile Rd on John R. Rd in Troy, MI.
My girlfriend and I went in for lunch and were warmly greeted by the Manager, Jeff. If we hadn’t been the only ones there, I would have never known the restaurant was new. From the high class décor to the wonderful outdoor patio complete with both tables and a second bar to the perfected menu’s, Amani’s sets the stage for a delicious meal. And that lunch was delicious! We both had the meat shwarma and a plate of fattoush to split, all for $ 12.50! I highly recommend the restaurant if you are a fan of authentic mediterranian cuisine!