Lidaar Mediterranean Grill

Lidaar runs a Mediterranean grill on Archibald Avenue in Alta Loma, the residential north where restaurants are scarce and anything good becomes a neighborhood fixture by default.

The format is the reliable one — shawarma, kabob plates, the salads-and-rice architecture that feeds omnivores, vegetarians and halal-observant tables from one menu. That flexibility is the genuine advantage of the cuisine, and in this part of the city there is no competing version of it.

Alta Loma's 91701 side is a drive from the Foothill corridor; this is the kind of listing that saves someone that drive.