Going Middle Eastern near Pierce

Opened achingly close to JJ Pearce, this white-tableclothed diner offers both lunch buffet and dinner, with Medi salads and pastas (fatoosh, tabboleh, patra), plus exotic proteins like shawarma, yalengi (stuffed grape leaves), beef, chicken, or lamb kabobs, and the garlic yogurt-sauced balls of fried wheat and ground beef known as "kobbeh", though really, Kobbeh's beef wasn't with how Shaq's balls tasted.