Positive: Clean location in University City with large screen TVs to watch sports.
Negative: Below average quality and taste.
Overall: Good place to visit for halal food if you are a college student in the area. Otherwise look elsewhere.
Revisit: Nope
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are you a student looking for a quick bite while in university city?
Ed’s is located by University City and is in a great location for students at Drexel and Penn who are looking for a quick halal bite. I have been to this restaurant two times and since my visit earlier in 2011, they have renovated. The restaurant is very clean and has two wide screen tv’s, making it an ideal location to watch sports with friends.
But besides this, the food lacks quality and taste. We ordered curly fries, boneless chicken fingers, philly cheesesteak, and buffalo chicken cheesesteak. Out of these, only the curly fries were good. I do not recommend the other items. The chicken fingers were dry and hard with way too much buffalo sauce. The meat for the philly cheesesteak had a very strong meat taste and no flavor; there was more cheese on one half of the sandwich too. It just was not made well. As for the buffalo chicken cheesesteak, the chicken was dry and tasted too much like buffalo sauce. It didn’t have much cheese in it either. So all in all, I would not go back again and the only reason I went a 2nd time was because I had forgotten how bad their food was. Oh and make sure to ask them for the halal menu because not all their items are halal.
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Positive: Good quality cheese steaks and fat sandwiches in a great location unbeaten by surrounding “halal” restaurants in downtown New Brunswick and Somerset.
Negative: There is nothing exceptional for which I would drive here over and over again unless if I went to school/work in the area.
Overall: Good quality food that you can’t beat when going to Rutgers University or visiting New Brunswick.
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Update (5/14/2011):All in all I am disappointed in Douglass Pizzas decrease in food quality and increase in prices. But, what I can say, their locations are excellent, they still have pretty decent food compared with other similar halal food places, and their menu is pretty expansive.
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Those were the days. Where art thou?
Wow…I miss the days of going to eat at Douglass Pizza on Commercial Avenue. Their cheesesteaks were amazing (especially the chicken cheesesteak which I enhaled almost daily after I worked out)! After they closed down during Rutgers University’s takeover and reopened at two great places in New Brunswick & Somerset they were never the same again. (By they way, I think that these two places have now split but have similar menus).
Maybe it was because they didnt use the same grills they had or maybe its just because they have hired help that doesn’t put as much passion into food as they did. Those were definitely the days..but now they are gone and I dont think they will be coming back soon. There is another place called New Brunswick Pizza & Grill (opened by one of the original Douglass workers) in the area which has a similar menu but probably not as good.
Douglass, however, does have alot more additions to their menus and some are actually very good. Their fat sandwiches (especially the fat zaza if you are into the gyro meat or fat boy if you like cheesesteak) are good and unique to New Brunswick and the Grease Trucks. The cheesesteaks are not as good as they used to be – however they still are pretty good compared to their other dishes. Their buffalo wings were never that good and still aren’t. The meat pizza is decent, but Paulies Pizza (another similar place on Easton Avenue) has better pizza by a long shot. And their hamburgers are either good or average depending on the day. I never tried their random sweet dishes at the counter so I dont really know how good they would be.
All in all I am disappointed in Douglass Pizzas decrease in food quality and increase in prices. But, what can I say, their locations are excellent, they still have pretty decent food compared with other similar halal food places, and their menu is pretty expansive.
I used to go to Douglass Pizza almost every week or two, but now I barely go every few months. Its good for those that live in the area I guess and pretty unique for those who like fat sandwiches from other states – but I think they really need to increase the quality of their food back to the original.
Also, the difference between the George street, New Brunswick Douglass and Somerset Douglass is the crowd. In New Brunswick you’ll see mostly students and the location is fairly new looking. Best place to park is in the deck behind the store. The Somerset location is next to a Halal Meat store and you mostly see families and people from surrounding areas.
