Zonga’s Mediterranean Eatery

Came here on a Friday night around 9pm. The atmosphere is mellow and the interior is modern. I had the chicken shwarma and my bf had the chicken fettuccine. Both were really good. The shwarma came with a side of hummus that had two flavors and a side of pita bread.
Around 10 – 10:30 the dj started playing. The Spanish music was very mixed.
The hookah was brought out and the fire stones replaced occasionally. I will say that the waiter wasn’t really bringing our drinks in a timely manner. And after a while he completely stopped coming to our table. By this point there were ten of us.
They did bring me out a complimentary baklava for my birthday. That was nice.
The manager was attentive at the beginning then he didn’t stop by after that.
The drinks were just ok. The bartender didn’t really make the drinks that well. They were too strong when they should have been more sweet.
All in all I would go again.

Bartender behaved like she didn’t want to be there. Worst service ever. Nice place but bad personality will certainly ruin the flow.

The calamari is delicious. The chicken tenders are yummy and not greasy at all. The ice cream cake is pretty delicious. The stuffed grape leaves received rave reviews from my friends. The service is pretty good.

I do t like saying anything bad about someone, but this was so bland neither my wife nor my kids enjoyed the food. I ordered the highly suggested, by the waitress, eggplant with steak; it was tomato sauce with a splash of red wine and huge chunks of eggplant and little bitty bits of steak. It was barely palatable. My wife had a gyro wrap and could not tell it was gyro meat. The kids had a cheese pizza and my daughter asked why are we eating here? It won’t happen again. They are more of a bar then a restaurant don’t know how TABC ever pasted this place off as a restaurant.

Beat hummus in area and they have the best family style kabobs no one in the area can compete!

Amazing food !! Service was prompt, and the owner came out and explained the items on the menu. The ambiance was great, with the sliding windows that make you feel as if your sitting on the patio. And the music selection topped off the evening. I will definitely be back !

As much as I hated zongas inside chillin outside with friends was always good but I’m currently here and wtf are they playing. Did they forget we are in north Richland hills??? Goodbye to their business. Took forever to get coals and service! I heard «let it go» from frozen, some bs from Arab land, we made a request and I commend our waiter Hamza because we recc. Kendrick Lamar and it played right away. Also recc. Odesza! Played right away but of course at the end of the night bs music and annoying and super loud ! Side note Ryan amazing waiter if they lost him, sad day!

Such a great patio! Food is incredibly tasty and super fresh. Hookah service always on point… this place has it all!!!

Haven’t tried their food yet, but plan on it soon!
Happy hour prices are awesome and they load up their drinks. Our waitress was super nice and quick to notice when our drinks were empty and kept the drinks coming. We will be heading back to Zongas soon.

Hanza and Gafar are wonderful servers! When you come in please ask for them! I recommend them highly!

Good food, good hooka flavor, but had a bad experience with service. I just want more water man.

Excellent babaganoush. Service was awesome. Highly recommend the kafta meatballs in tahini sauce and calamari.

My sister and her husband are locals and come here pretty often! I came to Fort Worth for a visit and we went there on Sunday ⁴⁄₁₂ at night! The service was poor and we waited more than 20 min for our entrees (they apologized for the delay) only to find out they got my order wrong! We had to wait AGAIN. I’m pregnant, people! I needed my food bad!
When it was time for our check we noticed they did not give ANY discounts! We mentioned it to the waitress and she came back with a $ 2.80 discount (and that’s after she talked to the manager). It was laughable and a waste of time!
It’s very disappointing that they were not even trying to make us happy!
They are not worth my time or money! I would recommend you go somewhere where they have real customer service skills!

Their SERVICE IS great! I was satisfied and thats all i cared about. They had great hookah specials on weekdays and their happy hour were GREAT.

Food is great but the staff is horrible. There is a dress code which is lame! This establishment is a BAR not a Club. Dance floor is SUPER SMALL place is super small. More like a lounge than a bar. Drinks are pricey. I only go here if I have to. Other than that you can catch me at BoomerJacks.

This food is AMAZING! The service
Is great everything gets 5 stars! The best hummus I’ve ever had and I eat hummus on a regular. Gyros are awesome just a great dining experience ! I love the drink specials too. 3 dollar crown and down on Mondays!

I came here for the hookah and the service with changing coals was perfect.
I had the food here, it was just decent. I felt I have had better Meditteranean food in the Fort Worth area.
Will go back for the drinks and for the hookah.

My party and I were invited back by management. The food was actually really good before (something I had not mentioned in previous review). We were more pissed off about the sorry waitress and the fact that it took us two hours to get out of there. The new waitress was still of the timid, «I don’t know what I’m doing; I can’t make eye contact» type, but Primo was awesome. He understands both service and food. The young lady waiting on us wouldn’t be able to answer questions so we didn’t implore much from her.
This review will be more about the food. They gave us hummus and baba ganoush to start with. The cool thing about these two apps is that they come with toppings, including red pepper, garlic, and pesto so you can mix and make your own. Their grape leaves were good as well. Primo closely watched our table and refilled our pita bread, stating that he didn’t overload the dish the first time because he didn’t want it to get cold.
We were all more than happy with our entrees. My husband got chicken kabobs, I got roasted eggplant and garlic beef in tomato sauce and the other couple got a steak and chicken marsala. I really, really loved the eggplant dish (recommended by Primo). The tomato sauce was very savory and the eggplant perfect. I didn’t dig the beef, but that’s probably more of a personal taste thing (re: not a big fan of meat) than something wrong with the dish’s execution. My friend’s husband said the marsala was the best he had ever had. He and I both cleaned our plates. The kabob people had left overs.
In summation, the food is really, really good. Unfortunately, the waitresses are just not up to snuff. They aren’t educated about the menu, and don’t know much about service in general. But if you and ask for Primo, that little problem will be taken cared of.
4 – 5 star food
1 – 2 star service (with regular waitress) – but again, get Primo to look out for your table so this will be a nonissue. I’d give the place an average 3 – 3.5 stars considering both.
Thank you again for inviting us back! I appreciate their commitment to service. We wouldn’t have considered it if the food wasn’t sooo good.

Weird, quirky place on Highway 26 in North Richland Hills. Looks pretty average from the outside, but inside, it’s kicky and fun!
Hubby and I went around 10pm Tuesday night (had heard of this place and it’s getting some decent reviews here) and were pleasantly surprised. Not many people there, but a group of drinkin and birthday celebratin people who livened up the place for sure! (More on that later).
Started with appetizers, fried calamari for hubby, Babaganoush with pita bread to share and Fried Halloumi Cheese on toasted pita bread for me. Calamari was good but nothing special. Fried cheese was tasty but a little odd — they separated the two halves of a pita bread and put a small piece of this awesomely salty/​buttery/​creamy cheese on top, then toasted it I guess. The cheese slice was matchbook sized as you can see from the pictures and wasn’t spreadable, so you had this whole part of the pita bread that was just plain, toasted and empty. Remedied that by dunking it in the AMAZING babaganoush! This dish was smokey, tangy, spicy and really outstanding. Probably the best we’ve ever had, and I normally don’t like it enough to even eat more than a sample — this was much more complex of a taste, and it was very enjoyable.
Entrees came with fries, which were slightly above-​average, probably frozen, but tasty/​salty fries. My beef shawarma was moist, delish and topped with onions, tomatoes and maybe something pickled, like a beet? Hubby’s falafel pita came with this amazing sauce (maybe tahini) and again, the flavor of the falafel far exceeded other ones we’ve tried.
We split a HUGE Zonga Bowl (one of their signature drinks) and it was sweet, fruity and is normally $ 24 but it was only $ 15 tonight for some reason — our waitress didn’t mention why and I forgot to ask.
Service was pretty good with our waitress Alexandra checking back with us frequently. The bartender even came over to ask if the music was too loud (which it really was) and turned it down — nice touch, because it was that club/​hip-​hop stuff that really doesn’t work for a romantic dinner with the hubby!
Finally, as we were digesting, one of the birthday party guys wandered over, introduced himself and bought he and my husband a shot of whiskey. Funny stuff — that group looked like regulars, which I’m sure this place has alot of!
You can also smoke a Hookah if you want, and they have a pretty extensive menu of that stuff too — we didn’t try that, but will likely return to do so.
Hope it sticks around because I’d like to venture into the other areas of the menu, which also includes pizza, burgers, sandwiches and pasta — weird mix of stuff, but if they do that as well as they did our selections tonight, rock on!
Ooh and they are also open until 2am, so that makes it one of the few places you can actually get real food with an adult beverage after 10pm!

Well if I ever needed a half a star, this is it. On the one hand, Zonga’s was good, but not quite fan worthy good. While 4 stars seems high, 3 stars seems low, so I’m going to round up because I do think it has potential.
Zonga’s is a large restaurant, much larger than I was expecting. It has a very large outdoor bar, TV, and seating… It’s just too bad there’s no view, unless you like watching the traffic on 26 or the patrons at the Waffle House next door (which can be entertaining). Inside there’s another bar and a few TVs. The ambiance is a bit cool, as there’s nothing Mediterranean about the décor. If I’m not mistaken, I thought I saw dance floor lights in one part of the dining room, so maybe there’s more here than meets the eye. The other odd thing is that it was absolutely dead on our Sunday afternoon visit. In the hour we sat there two people came in, and both left without ordering. Not until we were leaving was another table seated.
The menu as expected is Mediterranean, but there are also burgers, soups and a few other not quite Mediterranean options. Maybe pizza too.
For our visit we had fried calamari, baba ganoush and a gyro pita.
Calamari was pretty good. Nice crispy batter, somewhat reminiscent of Panko, but a tad salty. The marina sauce, while thin, was tasty and offset the salt nicely.
The baba ganoush was the star. It had a nice smokey flavor and was quite tasty. It was served with a single piece of pita bread, which was not enough… But another was provided when we asked. If I could change one thing, it would have been nice if the pita was piping hot.
My gyro tasted OK, but it was small for the $ 5.99. The tzatziki sauce was good and did not disappoint. I would have liked to see a bit more meat with the pita, and a few fries (as with the gyro plate) would have been nice too.
Bottom line: Not a bad experience. I would consider Zonga’s again, perhaps on a busier night and when I was in a mood to wash my meal down with a beer.
PS. Who doesn’t have a website in this day and age? With so much going on at Zonga’s, they really need a way to get the word out and keep their customers updated.
[update] Lauren Guetig, Marketing Director for Zonga’s, has provided me with Zonga’s URL… I don’t know why I could not find it via Internet searching. Anyway, here’s the URL and I will also add it to the Unilocal listing: