If you live in the Baton Rouge area, then I'm sure you are familiar with Arzi’s. Arzi’s has multiple locations around the area and most feature a drive-thru for Greek on the go.

While at the Mall of Louisiana today, I decided to go ahead and review one lucky (or possibly unlucky) place for lunch. My selection was Arzi’s.

As for the usual with all Greek restaurants I visit, I ordered the Combination plate so that I could get a taste of everything. The Combo plate included gyros, chicken, Greek salad with cucumber dressing, humus and pita bread. The portions were nicely piled high on a small styrofoam plate.

I guess I will start my dining experience with the good part. The chicken was pretty good. It was tender and had a good flavor. Not bad at all. The humus wasn’t bad either. It didn’t have the overwhelmingly strong flavor that you find in other restaurants' humus.

Now this isn’t my first Arzi’s rodeo. I have eaten here many times in the past and I admit that I am not a usual fan of their gyros. It usually has a bland, rubbery taste. Today’s visit however seemed to be my best experience yet. The gyros were very tender and had that wonderful meaty combo/salty taste. Hopefully they’ll keep up the good cooking. It definitely wasn’t the best gyros I’ve ever had, but it was plenty good enough to make an enjoyable meal.

My only complaint about the meal was the Greek salad. The salad tasted and looked very old. It seemed every leaf of lettuce had a nice brown color and didn’t taste too fresh either. It was disappointing to find that someone wasn’t too concerned with the quality of the food they serve to their customers.

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Service
Though there was no waiting because we were dining in the food court of the mall, the service was fantastic. The line was a tad long, but they got the food out as quick as the customers could order it.

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Atmosphere
Um, I guess you could say the counter was clean. ☺  Hard to rate this one. I guess the mall food court staff will get the credit for this one since the tables were clean. I guess I’ll call it down the middle on this one.

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Arzi's Café
Mall of Louisiana Food Court
Baton Rouge, LA
(225) 769 – 9998
www.arzisbr.com