"The quality of every dish was full of flavor and absolutely delicious."
"Excellent food! The meat was cooked perfectly and the flavors in every dish were amazing!"
Cons:
"The food is always cold and they take forever to come to your table."
"The food was good, not the best experience of lebanese food."
"This place is so pricy, food was not all that."
"The food is no where near lebanese, expensive for paterson."
"Food was bad.. the French fries were so thin they felt like I was eating plastic.. the taboule was so salty."
"Very disgusting the food was dry, old and burned."
"Kofta is very dry. My beef shawerma is very chewy and dry."
Service
Pros:
"The owner and management treat you like family."
"Manager and waiters are very courteous too."
"Delicious food, awesome ambiance and great service."
"The service was great."
"The owner and staff are incredibly friendly and welcoming."
"The staff and management truly make you feel at home and are extremely generous."
"The service staff were friendly, kind, and attentive."
Cons:
"The service here is horrible. Plain and simple."
"The service is trash."
"Service is ok but the old arab guy who runs the place is nice and makes exceptions for you if you are not satisfied."
"Horrible service. I got to the restaurant before it was busy, ordered my food & an hour later still no food."
"They have the bad service ever! We order 4 hookahs 2 of them even didn’t come to the table! One of them is not working! Server was so poor and gratuity was included! We payed 116$ for nothing!!!"
"Service was slow and disorganized."
"Waited 20 minutes to be served, waitresses seem like they were upset or mad."
Ambiance
Pros:
"Great outdoor area to chill and enjoy company."
"Love this place! They offer three seating areas: outside (when it's warm obviously) and two indoor. One indoor area is more of a cafe style and the other is more of a lounge with a DJ and belly dancer."
"The ambience in the outdoor seating area was also great, with lots of plants and fun music."
"This is a wonderful place for outdoor dining. The garden is beautiful and very clean and the ambiance is lovely."
"The environment here is relaxing and calm which I liked."
"It was a very nice atmosphere."
"Excellent atmosphere and very good service."
Cons:
"The place is small, the food is not good, very little portion too, very overpriced."
"The show we saw seemed like we were in a strip club, seriously??"
"Bad experience food was cold and the waiter was so ill-mannered."
"The DJ played a variety of music, mostly rap, which really sucked, there was no dance floor."
"Dj and vibes were good until we started seeing like 3 mothers with 3 different babies with them."
"The place is nice but honestly I didnt like the atmosphere."
"And floor is vary sticky the glass has never been cleaned 🧼."
Management
Pros:
"Compare to before a great staff service and very improved 'well managed' clean & safe(specially due to pandemics)."
"Mazaj is led by Rola who is accommodating, caring, and friendly who always makes sure every experience here memorable that will keep you coming back!"
"Thank God to the lady manager she knows how to run the business."
"New management! Improved service and great food and hookah."
"Great service and management especially Roula she's beyond kind."
"They went above and beyond to make sure we got everything we needed."
"The staff is super friendly and went above and beyond to meet all of our needs."
Cons:
"Management? nowhere to be found!!"
"Their quantity of the food is changed... manager (lady) is not ready to face the guest hiding behind of wall..."
"Disrespectful staff I went in for a birthday party and the security guard at the front door started touching one of the girls."
"The manager is very rude."
"Owner was rude as hell and let people in, in front of me and told me it was closed after letting numerous people in."
"Rola the manager has a terrible attitude."
"Their manager also got into an altercation with the people sitting next to us which lead to a lot of profanity and obscene language from her part."
Value
Pros:
"The prices are also very good considering Jersey is an expensive place."
Cons:
"They use way too much plastic! Plastic cups for every sauce. All the bread comes in plastic bags. And they give you plastic water bottles."
"This place is so pricy, food was not all that."
"Crazy expensive. Just for the fact of going they already charge you a lot of money."
"Parking is hard to find on the Street that's why they charge 5 dollars to park in their parking lot."
"Does this look like a 4 person serving? Overpriced food with small portions and taste was bland."
"Overpriced food with small portions."
"This place is an absolute scam. I came with my family of 4, we ended up paying more than $200 for the worst experience."
Hygiene
Pros:
"The food is the best Middle Eastern Restaurant in the Paterson and they are very clean."
Cons:
"Place is not sanitized by any means."
"They gave me my hookah and I can see it all dirty from not cleaning them."
"Found hair in my food twice!"
"Cleaned our table with wipes and the whole entire wipe turned black from how dirty they table was."
"And floor is vary sticky the glass has never been cleaned 🧼."