When a restaurant gets things consistently right, you know that you have found the place that deserves extra merit and respect. Well, that’s what I have found at Sabas Mediterranean Restaurant on the corners of Bell Rd and Tatum Blvd. Today, I ordered a salad and asked my server, George, to kill the cucumbers. For my appetizer, he delivered the proof that he had, in fact, honored my request. Dead and bleeding from its nose and mouth, the lifeless cuke-corpse was served to me on a platter. To taste the sweet victory over this ugly vegetable that is of little use to the likes of me, George poked a toothpick into its eye allowing any of my tablemates a clean grab and devouring of its now lifeless bitter wretchedness. Before our very eyes, this pathetic member of the gourd family started turning green, rotting right there on the table.

Little did I know that the best was yet to come. A filthy little cucumber cousin of the dead guy above tried to hide in a nearby salad, probably thinking it would find revenge by jumping into my dish. George was right there on top of things. With all the professionalism I would expect from such a reputable establishment, in a flourish of stealthy action, George moved in and with frontier justice, dispatched this errant cylindrical menace with a quick fork through the eye and into the feeble brain of Mr. Pickle Head. Score two for George!

Three guys at the next table, obviously impressed with the special service I was receiving enquired if I were a celebrity or famous writer; I had to tell them the truth, “This is the honor all customers of Sabas receive when placing special orders, we are all celebrities here.” The guys handed me their card, they were working undercover as investigators for their website; Sammich.es – that’s right, just the way it sounds Sammich.es, skip the dot com, they are dot es, as in Sammiches. Not to be confused with Sandwiches. They told me how by day they work as mild-mannered graphic something or others, but I didn’t buy that, they all looked like foodies to me, professional full-time kind of foodies. Anyway, they said, visit our site, we know all the great stacked dead veggie restaurants. Next stop, Sammich.es.