This sprawling Lebanese restaurant is like a festive party in a banquet hall, all crisp linened tables, gleaming glasses, and large groups of families and friends.

An elevator door opens to a seemingly endless space, reaching from a curtained stage to a patio lined with palm trees, tables and hookahs awaiting to be puffed. In a corner, a lone baker in a glass box fills basket after basket of hot, puffy pita bread. Strewn about are antiques, dramatic chandeliers, flowing silk curtains and an army of servers, all making this Glendale eatery feel more like a majestic palace. The crowd, a mix of Middle Eastern families and younger Westerners, looks just as royal. On most nights, the restaurant is a traditional Lebanese restaurant to sit and dine on hummus, baba ghanoush and schwerma. But on Friday and Saturday nights it's transformed into one big party. On those nights, the entertainment starts late (the first act goes on around 9:30pm, a Frank Sinatra-type who sings Lebanese love songs and, well, Frank Sinatra) and ends late (with a full band playing Middle Eastern disco music while belly dancers shimmy through the room). The best option is to get the fixed-price menu. Servers continuously bring out an array of traditional meze (Middle Eastern appetizers) like mouhamara, a spicy dip made with crushed walnuts, red pepper and pomegranate juice; tangy stuffed grape leaves; basturma, a prosciutto-type cold cut; and kafta nayeh, a beef tartare of ground sirloin, parsley and onions. Of course, you can order a la carte, but you'll be the only one who does.