Al Ameer

So much good food! I stopped in the Canton location (definitely more of a take out vibe than a dine in vibe, though they do have seating inside for some casual dining). I ordered the Al Ameer platter, with yellow rice and tabbouli as the sides, plus the Sujuk sampler and a medium hummus. The platter was listed as "for 2" but it was huuuge! Definitely going to be enjoying the leftovers. The medium hummus was also really big. Good value for these large portion sizes! All of this also came with a large bag full of pita bread, garlic sauces (yum), tahini sauce, and a tiny thing of olive oil for (I assume) drizzling over the hummus. Also was very tasty, though we did eat reheated instead of fresh (as I picked this up mid afternoon for a later dinner). I think maybe some of the meat dried out a little bit in the microwave. All in all though, good food, generous portions.

I feel misled. Maybe it's my fault for trusting food reviewers but this place sucks. The bread is good, but that's about it. The Schwarma was dry, barely had any sauce on it. All chicken, really no pickles and no tomatoes? Weird aftertaste. They also don't have a description of what's in it on their website and you can't make "special requests" when you order. The garlic sauce was in a mini plastic bag which tells me they don't make it in house. If you're expecting toum type sauce, this isn't it. It's clearly made from chickpeas which I hate. Would've been nice to know but again, no description on their website. Horrible. The reviewer I heard about this place from claimed there was some sort of molasses and a "chefs kiss" technique they use and neither of those things were available, advertised or provided. With all the competition, they need to do a lot better. Won't be back.

TL;DR: The menu prices and food quality are the same as the Dearborn Heights location, but the experience isn't. Food for 3 people came out to be $60 with tip, and I'm not convinced that the cost of the food here matches the setup of this location.---An Al-Meer location in Canton! We're frequent customers of the Al Ameer in Dearborn Heights and were delighted to realize they had opened up a location in Canton.This restaurant is not like the Dearborn Heights location. It's been built to exude more of a "fast, upscale casual" vibe but the menu matches what we've seen before. And the cooking does too! The food tasted exactly like what we were used to, so we were extremely pleased. This is what really counts.So why not 5 stars?Though the menu and quality remain the same, the prices do too. We opted to dine-in and the experience was a bit lackluster. There are a few tables for seating, but this location was clearly not designed for the normal dine-in experience. We sat down and eventually they brought us our food... which was on a tray and everything was just in plastic take-out containers. The expectation was clear that we had to bus everything ourselves after that, though the employees were nice when we asked for some water. Also, if you're going to put everything in plastic take out containers, it would be nice to offer the opportunity for recycling if people choose to dine in. It felt like such a sad thing to throw away.

Been here a few times and want to share my experience. The good: Baba Ganoush was excellent. Beef kebabs were great. The white rice is surprisingly good. Chicken Shawarma was very good. Mujadra was very good. The deboned chicken with garlic and lemon sauce was heavenly. Not so good? The greek salad was very meh. Dressing wan't very greek dressing like. Really bad? The pitas. Supposedly freshly baked but our bag of 12 were all burnt pucks. Would have made a good sub if a hockey game broke out. Overall we are figuring out what we like and will def be back. Hopefully they figure out the pita problem.

Food is just horrible at this location. Never had a decent meal. I got the mix grill tonight, chicken were tiny dried out cubes, kebab hard as a rock and kafta all dried out. Rice had zero nuts or any kind of garnish. What the hell happened?? Been going to Al Ameer for years and as I've seen it decline over the years, I never thought it would be this bad. Fattoush salad is too sweet, and bread was severely undercooked.It's simple, most canton residents don't know what true middle eastern food is supposed to taste like, hence the good reviews....people will catch on and it will be the same situation as last time when they tested this market. Grand opening, grand closing. Super dirty lobby, I hope they take the time to clean the kitchen!

Ordered carry out.. in hopes that this would be the one we are looking for in terms of awesome authentic Lebanese Mediterranean food!!.. oh boy were the insta reviews wrong!! I tend to forget these type of reviews on social tend to be "fake" or paid! We ordered chicken shawarma , falafel, and chicken tawook sandwiches!The falafel was good! But the chicken shawarma tasted chickeney, lacked flavor spice and just tasted off. It did not taste like nor appear to be shawarma.. more like broasted chicken pieces made to appear like shawarma! One of the chicken shawarma had a nice size bone in it, which furthered my suspicion that it may not be shawarma.. don't get me wrong I'm sure this happens but the chicken did not look like nor taste like any shawarma I'd eaten before!!!The chicken tawook had a funky metallic grilled taste and again lacked spice and flavor and very little garlic on the chicken sandwiches! Overall such a disappointment, as we had high hopes that this would be the place to go based on social reviews...Side note the reusable container the sandwiches came in was cool!:)

We had a WONDERFUL meal, and the customer service was awesome! Highly recommend the beef sharwarma sandwich with the pomegranate molasses sauce as well as the sambausek.

This place is more for lunch and a quick pick up on the go. Their other locations are sit down and are more relax environment. Still nicely decorated, I appreciate h learn it was as well as the bathrooms. We went during Christmas day. Everything was delicious.

Absolute worst takeout I have ever had. The canton location is nothing like the one in Dearborn heights. Very overpriced, ordered a platter and the meat was all very dry. Could not even get the beef kabob off the wooden skewer. Garlic and tahini are mass produced and not fresh or authentic. Would not recommend.

ordered a whole boneless chicken white. The chicken breasts were paper thin and DRY! Tasted like a brick. Waste of money.