If you want to experience the best hospitality and deliciously authentic Mediterranean food, Lavash Café in Clintonville, a Columbus, Ohio neighborhood, is a great choice! Our waitress and the owner truly made us feel at home by checking in with us to make sure we were happy with our food more than once. The owner has a great sense of humor too. In conversation, I informed our waitress that we were celebrating my brother’s birthday, so she and other staff members brought out a free chocolate cake with a candle on top while singing “Happy Birthday”. The waitress even very discreetly asked me my brother’s name, so they could sing to him directly. I was enjoying their celebration of him so much that I forgot to sing along.

The diverse menu boasts a mix of fresh Middle Eastern and Mediterranean dishes. I selected the gyro, which is a mixture of ground lamb and beef with tzatziki sauce and served with lettuce and tomato. My brother chose the kefta with ground lamb and beef with tahini sauce and also served with lettuce and tomato. We both asked for the Lavash bread made in-house instead of pita bread.

The veggie combo with hummus, tabbouleh, baba ghanoush, lettuce, and tomato with tahini sauce was my husband’s choice. We all three enjoyed the deliciously perfect hummus and pita bread as an appetizer and our baklavas for dessert; two of us picked the pasticcio and one chose the homemade walnut. My brother also opted to order Turkish coffee and liked it so much that he ordered a second. He let me taste it and it’s dark with a hint of mint aftertaste- very tasty! One would assume the costs would be high for such authentic and scrumptious food, but we found the prices to be most reasonable. This was our first visit to Lavash Café, but it most certainly will not be our last.