"A meal at Carousel scoops you up and plops you right in the middle of Glendale’s rich Armenian community. The Middle Eastern restaurant is the social center of the neighborhood, a gigantic dining hall that’s a party almost every night of the week and filled with massive kebab platters, assorted meze, and shawarma guaranteed to feed a group of any size. It’s all set up like a wedding reception, with tables packed next to each other in uniform rows. Expect meats being lit on fire, lots of gossiping, and at least two or three birthdays being celebrated." - kat hong