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Layalina Restaurant – Bluemont

$20 for $40 Worth of Middle Eastern Fare

$20
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No Longer Available
Wed Apr 13 03:59:59 UTC 2011
Value
$40
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50%
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Highlights

  • Delicious Middle Eastern fare
  • Friendly servers
  • Authentic ambience

The Fine Print

  • Expires Aug 13, 2011
  • Limit 1 per person, may buy 2 additional as gifts. Limit 1 per table. Limit 1 per visit. Valid toward alcohol. Dine-in only. Tax and gratuity not included.
  • See the rules that apply to all deals.

Ever since World's Fairs were outlawed in 1986, many have had to resort to reading or amateur cartography to gain an international outlook. Global awareness is delivered through grub with today's Groupon: for $20, you get $40 worth of food and drink at Layalina Restaurant, located in Arlington. Layalina Restaurant is closed on Monday.

Layalina derives the lamb's share of its fare from the secret recipes of owner and executive chef Rima Kodsi's grandmother. Layalina ably represents its Lebanese and Syrian culinary heritage, with an extensive menu of freshly made specialties. Layalina's six lamb-shank dishes have cartwheeled to the top of many carnivores' culinary canons with a fall-off-the-bone flavor that comes from simmering in saunas of oils, herbs, spices, and vegetables ($21.95 each).

Herbivores and herbivoyeurs get the meatless red-carpet treatment with more than 25 vegetarian dishes, including traditional hummus ($6.95) and bamieh bel zeit, a sautéed okra dish served with rice ($15.95). Kodsi also puts together acclaimed daily specials that can only be discovered by cracking a series of coded numerical patterns in the year-to-date pollen count, or by showing up at the restaurant.

Layalina Restaurant's interior transports patrons to the Middle East without the appetite-suppressing transatlantic swim. Authentic artifacts line the walls, with ornate rugs swooping down from the ceiling and elaborate lighting fixtures shining like kaleidoscopic mini-suns overhead.

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The Groupon Guide to: Wishing Opportunities

Though everyone makes wishes all the time, such as for sandwiches or for their car to not veer into a misplaced piano, very few wishes actually come true if not made via a respectable and agreed upon wishing venue. What are some reliable day-to-day opportunities for wish making?

• Wishing upon a shooting star
• Wishing upon a penny tossed into the mall fountain, or if available, mall volcano
• Wishing any time a digital clock reads 11:11, 12:34, or W1:5H
• Blowing out birthday candles, or in the event of inextinguishable “trick” candles, trimming off the wicks with scissors
• Free wish negotiated via talking fish who apparently couldn’t grant his own wish of “not getting caught in a net”
• Cracking a wishbone in half (wish is granted to the person who felt the most power at the sound of a tiny bone breaking)
• Holding your breath for as long as it takes to learn how to play the game bridge
• Earning a wish by rubbing Frasier’s head
• Working hard and staying honest while dedicating yourself to improving the skills that will allow you to act on real-world opportunities you make for yourself, and also, buying a $600 rabbit’s foot
• Making a wish every time you see a dog, tree, or car, just in case

Can you make a wish upon a car?

Layalina Restaurant

4.15 out of 5
117 Reviews

Reviews From Other Sites

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4.0 out of 5
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Google Places
5216 Wilson Blvd.
4.0 out of 5
(20)
TripAdvisor
5216 Wilson Blvd.
4.5 out of 5
(66)
Urbanspoon
5216 Wilson Blvd.
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    Bluemont

    5216 Wilson Blvd.
    Arlington, Virginia 22205
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Reviews

  • I recommend this resturant [_sic_] to anyone with a taste for Lebanese food in the DC area. I will sure go back there when I get a chance.
    Reviewer, Google Maps, 3/28/10
  • I love going to Layalina, the food there is almost as good as what you'd get back home (Lebanon).
    J P A., Yelp, 2/18/11