★★★☆☆ Went in for the Thai but got tempted with the shawarma. It is disappointing that they charged me more when I asked to have water instead of pop in my combo (99 cents extra); this seems to be a pattern with Villa Madina franchises. The shawarma was good, garlic potatoes that came with the combo were really good. However, I would go to Ali Baba's before I go there because at least they don't charge me extra for switching to water in my combo. Posted on June 11, 2014

★★★☆☆ We went here last night. Even though a "halal" sign is visible on the front door, unfortunately not everything is halal. We asked a brother who works there whether everything was halal, he said yes Alhamdulillah (by that he meant "meat only") However, when we asked the manager, he clearly told us that the chicken broth used in their tom yum and regular soups is NOT HALAL!!! Yes the meat is halal but not the chicken broth :S I was glad he told us that because we had tried the soup earlier (not knowing about the chicken broth) and we went back last night to order it again. Nevertheless, the food that we ordered was pretty good. We ordered rice noodles with beef, mango salad, cold shrimp roll, and fried vegetable roll. Not a big fan of the cold roll but mango salad and the noodles were pretty good. I enjoyed the salad dressing as well and the mangoes were sweet. I would definitely go back but it's a shame that we cannot order the soup which was the best thing they had. So please do yourselves a favour and ASK about each and everything whether it's halal or not. Just because a "halal" sign is displayed doesn't mean it's true in its entirety. Posted on September 12, 2013