I love this place! The food is amazing. The cakes and sweet goodies are beautiful. The lunch menu lebanese breads are real value for $4.50 each - NOT per slice. The coffee is wonderful with large cups ( bowl size) reasonably price. An awesome place to pick up a box of yummy treats for someone special. The staff are efficient and charming. The beautiful young ladies serving the food are gracious and have mastered the art of great customer service. Thoroughly recommended!
I love this place must try ��
Since I have only tried their dessert, my rating just for their bakery.
Baklava is made of layers filo stuffed with crushed nuts like pistachio and sweetened by syrup.
The round baklava is my favorite🥳
It has crispier flio and not as sweet as the others.
Baklava is very good and very reasonably priced. Got around 8-9 pieces for $8! Had the falafel which was very good and for three people our meal only cost us $20 in total. Although the place was pretty dirty, a lot of dishes/left over food were left on tables for a long time.
Amazing array of baklava's from pistachios, walnuts, cashew and also almonds. Loved every bite of it. Best part was that it wasn't overly sweet unlike others that I've had before. Highly recommend!
We went there for Iftar buffet, absolutely loved it, great food choices and great value, I absolutely loved its meat dishes, highly recommended.
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The most awesome labanese food place in West Auckland. Has awesome food and ambiance. Plus the variety of Baklava!! Too yummy for anyone to resist. A must visit place.
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Top class excellent baklava.
Listed under its business name- however this is Baklawa Cafe which is what you will see from the road. The importing and wholesale business supports it.
Been a patron here many times- the baklava is excellent (although not as expected Turkish styles) and other biscuits and sweets just as tempting.
Their dining is casual and warm.
The girls serving a polite and quiet- don't expect full on mainstream service or speed here. It is very laid back as a family run place often is (yes they manage and work here). English isn't always their first language, so compensate accordingly.
Breakfast style menus of humus and olive oil, tahini with lebanese bread always please. Falafels, mana'ish etc always full flavoured. Coffees excellent.
Weekly buffet on Friday night seems a family and friends affair (local community strong and many Indian and others attend). Great value for $20pp. Would give it 4.5 if I could. Happy to return for full dining, alfresco brekkies or just the baklave for take home desserts.
Highly recommended.
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We came here for the baklava. My oh my! Very impressed at the many varieties of baklava they have! The sight of the huge round pan of baklava is very interesting! We bought one each of the different flavours: pistachio, almond, coconut, chocolate to name a few. Super yummy! And oh yes, they also sell many different kinds of candies & chocolates!
Friendly customer service, very quick delivery of food. Amazing eggs benedict. Food was very nicely presented. Price was reasonable. Will definitely be back!
This place is just amazing. The ambiance of the place is just peaceful. I keep coming here once in a while got the bakalawa and the coffee. Love the authentic flavour and taste of the cuisine
Nice and beautiful traditional Arabic food, if you want proper Arabic style food Shefco is the place to go! Everything is homemade nicely! Just like we have it at home, never go wrong with Arab food
Great place, we went there for their buffet which runs friday and saturday. Everything in the buffet was great, you can fill up as many times as you wish but when you get to the 2nd plate you will be so full it hard to fill up again. Certainly value for money.
On normal days their manish and other food is also amazing.
Pepporini pizza i would stay away from, did not have much pepporni topping.
Drinks are a little expensive.
Place can get busy during buffet but there was no shortage of food or people waiting for food it was always freshly filled up. Nice to see the quality and speed at which they ensure the plates are always filled with food.
And ofcourse baklawa is great, don't leave with out trying some.
Very tasty Labanese food. I did the buffet experience at last Saturday. Nice dine in environment with good services. I really like their desert and pasty items. But needs variety of other main dishes, also food was not hot enough, the kabab items are really cold. The staff should look into this matter. Recommended for family gathering.
Highly recommended.
Great service, good environment ,really decent food at affordable price.
It was my second visit to this restaurant. There is consistency in every aspect of the restaurant 👏 👌
Amazing food with friendly service. Authentic Middle Eastern food and flavor. Baklava is also amazing and fresh. They provide nice breakfast as well and you must try Manaish. They have a nice buffet every Friday and Saturday.
Fantastic! Just made me nostalgic and took me back to the days when I lived in the Middle East. Authentic flavours and prices that don't break the bank. The Lebanese coffee ☕ does have cardamom which we loved but just be aware in case you're allergic etc.
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They occasionally have a buffet but you would need to check their Facebook page for the days. They do recommend booking in advance and it did get quite busy. There are a few parking spaces in front of the shop but plenty along the road.
We paid and were given plates to start our meal. They had quite a lot on offer from the bread and dips, to salads and hot food.
My favourite of the lot was the yellow rice with the lamb. It was quite fragrant and flavourful. Their hummus and other dips were also quite tasty. The stuffed zucchini was also interesting. I also did like the meatball with the pasta. I did find their chicken a bit on the dry side. The desserts were nice too, a tiramisu and what seems to be a semolina pudding.
It was an interesting place for a buffet since I haven't had food like that often. The smell of the cookies was amazing but I ended up getting some baklawa for takeaway since they didn't have those for the buffet. It cost $25 for the buffet and $12 for the box of baklawa.
Great place for brunch. Prepared to order, so it can sometimes take 35 to 40 minutes. Fresh and reasonably priced. Excellent coffee from Lebanese to flat white. Lots of vegetarian options. The menu board next to the cash register where you order has more detailed descriptions than the laminated menus.
An order of foul requires 2 to 3 bread. We shared 4 different types of manaish and they arrived beautifully cut in quarters on a tray. Staff very helpful. Do not leave without taking home a box of baklava- it is sublime!!
What an amazing find this place was lastnight!!
4 of us went for dinner and ordered the Lamb Mashawi with lebanese rice as the side, Chicken on Rice, and the Mixed Mashawi. We also also ordered Falafel and Hummus - All sides and mains came with so much pita bread we couldnt finish it all! The portions were huge, the quality and taste was amazing and the falafel is the best I have ever had.
From the outside/the decor, it seems a very lowkey place, but there is nothing lowkey about the food!!!
Only downside was waiting about 45-50 mins for the food, but not a major issue at all :)
Insanely delicious babaganoush, hummus and that amazing amazing bread, handmade and piping hot. Bit of a wait on food but really when it is that good, you dont even mind. Very unassuming little place with extremely good Lebanese food.
Their baklava is delicious but I can't get my head around the fact that it's a Lebanese restaurant that has space for days and serves buffet options for dinner but won't sell kebabs? No chips? What kind of non kebab selling non kebab place is this! Super clean, staff are very friendly and sweet options are super fresh
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