Wessen Int'l Kitchen

The food was okay. Not a good enough place to dine in. The chicken kebobs were a bit dry.

This restaurant was excellent!! We were really hungry and getting ready for our long drive home last night. This restaurant had high reviews and was nearby so we decided to give it a try for a to go dinner order. The restaurant is near the university in a small strip mall with a front parking lot that is free to park, unlike other spots that we attempted to go to that charged for parking since they were near the university. It's a family-owned restaurant with very hard-working, friendly staff. Our order was made very quickly and when we got home and checked, the order was perfect. To top it off, the flavors of each dish were delicious. Everyone of us four enjoyed our dishes and we all taste-tested each other's. It's too bad that we live an hour away. We would be coming here all of the time. Will definitely visit again when we are in the area.We ordered:Dolmas (this side comes with eight small dolmas packed with flavor)Large hummus (very flavorful, good hummus)Tabouli as the side for Mansaf (nice and lemony and very fresh)Mansaf (a large lamb shank covered with an herb yogurt sauce, and sitting on a buttery bed of golden rice)Chicken Shawarma plate (enough food for hubs. Nice portion of buttery, golden rice and chicken.)Kafta kebab plate (my daughter said this is very good)Vegetarian platter (my daughter loved this. She said the falafel was delicious. I tried a bite and it was very good.) Yummmm! what satisfying weeknight dinner. Seating inside is a bit small. There are two small tables in front of the counter. This seems mostly like an order-to-go type of establishment.

If you like salty, tasteless food then you will love this place!!!!I saw all the great reviews and was excited to try this place.I ordered the chicken shawarma and my wife got Greek salad.The chicken was dry and very salty. The rice has no flavor. The hummus is chunky and not a great flavor. The salad was good enough.The falafel was moist and a nice size but salty.I am disappointed and do not recommend this place.

Very small restaurant without a bathroom! Only 2 tables on the very small dining area. We didn't realize it is a take out place. It was our Valentines dinner fiasco...Kind of expensive $30 dollars for one plate of Molokhia and two appetizers: hummus and vegetarian dolmas. No drinks or desert! All served in plastic containers which turned me off!! Since we requested to eat here i thought they would at least serve us on plates! The server was not very friendly! It was a very mediocre experience

Craving a fresh, veggie friendly, and healthy-ish meal on our way to a picnic in the park, we stopped by Wessen for a takeout order. The shop is small and focuses mainly on takeout orders. If you do dine in currently there is only one table inside. The menu has a wide array of meaty and veggie forward dishes. I love trying a little of everything so I went with the vegetarian platter. It includes hummus, baba ganoush with kalamata olives, tabouli, falafel, dolmas and pita bread. Everything was securely packaged in Styrofoam and they included some to go utensils with napkins.I opened up my container and everything looked so pretty and appetizing. I dug into the falafel first. It had a very hard crunchy outer shell with well seasoned tender falafel/chickpea mixture inside. The dolmas were warm and tasted like they might have been left on the hot holding counter for a long time because they looked shriveled and tasted a bit dry on the outside but had very soft and almost mushy rice inside. The hummus was decent but the tabouli skewed too acidic for me. Out of the whole plate I enjoyed the baba ganoush the most since it had the perfect blend of seasoning and smokiness. The chopped Kalamata olives were a nice additional touch. The pita bread was served nice n warm in some foil. The total for the veggie plate was $12 which was a fair price for the amount of food I got.With a plethora of options for meals on their menu I know this is one place I'll have to try out again!Covid related info: - Staff do not wear masks- Very limited indoor seating

Wessen is now on our favorite restaurant list, because of one particular dish. We have now ordered to-go multiple times and tried a number of dishes on their menu. Here is a list of what we have tried at Wessen so far and our review of each. - Mansaf: the best dish on their menu in our opinion and the one we go to Wessen for. While the way it's cooked and served at Wessen is not the absolutely traditional way to make Mansaf, it is still delicious! - Kouzi: a good meat option with rice. The sauce on the side adds good flavor. - beef Kabsa: meat is tender but the spices used were not our favorite. - falafel plate: it is served with rice which is not a common way to serve it but the falafel itself has the right middle eastern falafel flavor. We had it as part of the vegetarian dish before and it was undercooked and I addressed that on the phone the next time I ordered so it was cooked a lot better then. Slightly dry but good. - Veggie platter: baba ghanouj is delicious, hummus is good. I didn't try the tabboule and the falafel is covered above. We did not enjoy the dolmas - they were dry and the stuffing was mushy and had a taste we did not like. - Moussaka: very good! We wish they had more veggies than meat though, especially since the eggplant is supposed to be the star of the dish. - bechamel pasta: a miss unfortunately. We didn't like it. I have tried many before in the Middle East and this was not the right flavor combination.- full tilapia fish for two - Friday special: not our favorite. The fish itself was over cooked and dry and the spice rub did not hit the mark. It came with a small sauce to top the fish with I believe but we didn't like it either. - baklava: ok but extremely sweet. - Kunafa: just ok. We wouldn't order it again. I think the flavor of the butter or ghee they used to make it is too overpowering and did not work well for us. Some additional details: mains are served with two free sides, hummus and salad as well as pita bread. If you want something else, there's an extra charge. If you want extra sauce for the mansaf, it's an extra charge. The Moussaka and Bechamel pasta are both sides. There are two sizes, big and small. The small is actually a good size. There's a falafel plate with rice and a falafel appetizer. I tried ordering over the phone mostly, and today, online. Prices on the online portal are higher than the menu, for example, Mansaf is $17 on the menu and $19 if ordering online, and this is not DoorDash or UberEats. This is their own ordering portal. I'm guessing the online option has the updated prices. I have never been to the restaurant, my husband has been picking up. We recommend Wessen for takeout. It is not a place to dine in (I believe they only have one table) but definitely an option for some good middle eastern food. There are many more dishes on the menu that we will attempt to try in the future but every time we will order, Mansaf will definitely be at least one of the dishes.

Meh. It was just alright. Nothing great. The chicken was super dry and bland, the tzatziki tasted funny and the pita was stale. I won't go out of my way to come back. I've had better Greek food elsewhere. The portions were decent tho for the money. It was dead inside- literally not a single person was there. The girl who took my order over the phone didn't even ask for my name for the order and she just hung up.

Who won't like a whole tray of grilled meats? They are perfectly cooked them. The meats are tender and juicy. Hummus is delicious, and babaganoush is so smoky delicious. We finished the whole tray, not leftovers!Finally I found the best dolma! I usually do not like it but this dolma changed my mind. The leave is tender and the stuffing is juicy delicious.Tabouli is also tasty and not too sour. Love it!

It's hidden in a shopping plaza down the way from Chicago chicken shack (favorite place just ordered catfish), so I'm gave them a try last week, enjoyed the hummus w/chicken great option and the have many more went back on Friday (6/19/20) got the chicken and a steak shawarma and that was good also.It's refreshing to find an meditreian place with fresh food and took the time to ensure everything was right with my order before I left.If you're in the area, make sure to stop by and give them a shot.#YOUWON'TBEDISAPPOINTED

10/10 spot, I regularly drive 45 minutes to get here. They only have two tables and their phone sucks but that's how you know it's legit. Couldn't recommend more.