Price Guide (average entree): $ bargain - $6 or less, $$ inexpensive - $6 - $12, $$$ moderate $12 - $19, $$$$ expensive - over $19.
Quality Rating: Superb is the highest, considered the very best possible. Notes are qualifiers allowing insight into the reviewer's rating. Disclaimer
| Restaurant: | Tribal Grill | Location: | 1808 1/2 W 39th St |
| Cuisine: | Mediterranean | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | tacky | Notes: | |
| Food: | substandard | Notes: | |
| Service: | poor | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | water |
| Comments: | I had the SHISH TAOUK, which was supposed to be a Turkish dish. I lived in Turkey for 3 years and this tasted like nothing I ever ate
anywhere in Turkey! The BATATA KIZBARA was dry and burnt, but I preferred
it to the under-cooked, oddly flavored SHISH TAOUK! Please be hesitant to
try this place! We were also told a reservation is preferred on the
weekends, but there were only about 6 people dining when we arrived. When
we left, (approximately 3 hours later) there were perhaps 12 individuals
dining. |
| Reviewer: | Melissa |
Date: | 7/21/02 |
| Restaurant: | Tribal Grill | Location: | 1808 1/2 W 39th St |
| Cuisine: | Mid-Eastern | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | tacky | Notes: | Dirty Tables and Extremely Rude Owners/Waiters |
| Food: | substandard | Notes: | Seabass (special that was pushed) was nearly raw and cold |
| Service: | poor | Notes: | Begged for everything; Owners picked fight |
| Favorites: | Water |
| Comments: | Never before have I been afraid of a fist-fight between a friend and the owner of the restaurant. The meal started bad and got worse.
It's not funny to be rude when you are a server ... at least not from the
diner's perspective. I'll NEVER go there again and will encourage
everyone I know to boycott Tribal Grill. |
| Reviewer: | Chuck |
Date: | 7/28/02 |
| Restaurant: | Tribal Grill | Location: | 1808 1/2 W 39th St, KCMO |
| Cuisine: | Turkish/Mediterranean | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | tacky | Notes: | |
| Food: | substandard | Notes: | Strange flavor to rice and very dry |
| Service: | poor | Notes: | Pushy and Rude |
| Favorites: | |
| Comments: | We found this restaurant and tried it in an attempt to find a
Turkish cuisine restaurant in KC. NEVER tasted anything like this in
Turkey. Food was dry and did not match the descriptions in the menu.
Strange flavor that we couldn't even describe! NOT a turkish restaurant.
Nor even Mediterranean. |
| Reviewer: | Karen |
Date: | 10/18/02 |
| Restaurant: | Tribal Grill | Location: | 1808 1/2 W 39th St, KCMO |
| Cuisine: | Mediterranean | Price: | |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | The atmosphere is sexy and exciting. Cool and laid back. |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | Unique tastes |
| Service: | **** superb | Notes: | They are so nice and down to earth. |
| Favorites: | Oscar - and the hummus rocks! |
| Comments: | This is the greatest place. I love this restaraunt. The atmosphere is amazing and laid back and COOL. What a great date place. Take your own wine, and have yourself a nice time. |
| Reviewer: | Mike |
Date: | 12/4/02 |
| Restaurant: | Tribal Grill | Location: | Kansas City |
| Cuisine: | Nomadic | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | Cool if you're intersting, weird if you're boring |
| Food: | ** very good | Notes: | Don't judge, try to 'experience' |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | pretend you are at home. not at the Whitehouse |
| Favorites: | be honest and ask for help and they are all great |
| Comments: | I used to work at this place in 1998.
New customers always found it difficult to accept something different but once they had relaxed, allowed it to happen and tried a few new things, it became a favourite. I was really surprised to see the reviews on this site. I think I may have to come back from England to see what's going on... |
| Reviewer: | James |
Date: | 2/25/04 |
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