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“What a delightful surprise!”
Review of Adana Restaurant

Adana Restaurant
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Ranked #14 of 597 Restaurants in Glendale
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Reviewed 1 August 2018

Amazing Armenian/Persian cuisine. Delicious appetizers, and the most tender beef I have had on a kebab. Try the albaloo polo (rice with cherries)! Can bring your own alcohol.

Date of visit: July 2018
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Thank polarbell
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Reviewed 19 March 2018

Superb cornish hen and barg.
The cornish hen was meaty, the white meat was a moist as the dark.
On the bone is the way to go.
The barg was thick, soft, juicy cooked to perfection.
The raw onions accompanying the barg were spiced just right.
Sides that accompanied the entrees Hummus, yogurt cukes, Persian salad, roasted whole tomao were fresh and yummy.
The pita and crunchy pitas chips will fill you up if you don't stop yourself.
The Cheese platter was 2 types of cheese and platter of raw persian cukes, bell pepper, radish, tomatoes with an spiced olive garnish...so good to combine as you like in a pita quarter.
The rice fluffy.
Lentil soup tasty and seasoned right.
The chef came to table to welcome us and ask how we were enjoying our meal.
Service is good.
Weekend night didn't need a reservation if you dine early...before 8pm.
Much better food than their more well know counterparts that have the weekend entertainment by the malls.
Food is first rate because the quality of the ingredients are superb.

Date of visit: March 2018
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Thank travelpillow
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Reviewed 27 November 2017

You could drive past this place a million times and not notice it. It is just inside Glendale in a semi-industrial area just east of Burbank. The building itself is definitely pre-WWII. The current photo above is definitely not Adana.

But the food is absolutely great. It is a Persian-Armenian restaurant which is much better than the more expensive ones in the rest of Glendale.

We had a great beet and pomegranate salad which does not appear to be on the menu. The avocado salad was good too. There are all the regular kebab dishes of beef, lamb, or chicken, in chunks or ground. Every dish has a choice of two sides such as hummus, yogurt cucumber, pickle, barbecued tomato, or Persian salad.

The portions are good and the prices are reasonable with only a couple of dishes over twenty dollars. This place is a real find.

Date of visit: November 2017
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Reviewed 19 September 2017

We needed somewhere for a quick lunch on the way to a Sunday outing in the mountains, and knew that Glendale was known for Armenian food, which my wife had a yen for. The first pick from the listings on Google Maps proved to be closed all day, so more or less at random we opted for Adana. When Wayz announced that we had “arrived at our destination” in the middle of a wasteland, we almost gave up trying to find it, but we persevered… and even on the second go almost missed it, because Adana’s frontage is discreet to the point of invisibility on a particularly barren stretch of San Fernando Road. Once inside we were a little disconcerted to find the menu more pan-Middle Eastern than specifically Armenian, but as time was getting short we stayed and went for a dish of mixed appetizers – stuffed grape leaves, falafel, hummus, Shirazi salad, rice and something very piquant made with stewed red peppers – plus an extra order of Kashk-e-Bademjan (fried eggplant in condensed yogurt topped with fried onions and mint). The appetizers were uniformly fresh and as good as we’ve had anywhere, but the eggplant dish was just sensational – one of those times when you encounter a flavor combination you never knew existed and now never want it to end. I actually felt guilty that we had to stop at appetizers and leave quickly so as not to be late at the destination.
Just a week later there was another event in Glendale, so this time we allowed plenty of time to try Adana’s main courses. We weren’t disappointed – my wife’s Khoresh Bademjan was thick with tender beef, eggplant, and split peas in tomato sauce, topped with a liberal scattering of french fries, and served with rice and a choice of two other sides from hummus, yogurt cucumber, pickle, barbecued tomato, Persian salad – all unsurprisingly adding up to enough spare to take home for a decent-sized meal the next day. My three succulent slabs of salmon, just blackened and spicy enough to add to and enhance the flavor of the fish without flattening it completely, was similarly accompanied. Just marvelous…

Date of visit: September 2017
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Reviewed 2 August 2017 via mobile

The best restaurant in Glendale/Burbank and one of the best in all of SoCal. Have eaten lunch and dinner here dozens of times and it's always perfection. Fantastic kabobs and super fresh salads and sides. Little know secret: The burger, which you would never think to order, is spectacular. Edward is a magician in the kitchen. In terms of food quality to price ratio it may be the very best restaurant I've encountered.

Date of visit: July 2017
Thank jeffhJ6170ZM
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