I took some friends to this restaurant for their 40th birthdays - and I have to say, we didn't have the best time.
The atmosphere is an exotic mixture of belly dancers, incense, eastern decor within an extremely busy and loud party ambience. If you are looking for somewhere to talk, this is not really the place.
The food is fresh and mostly good although a little oily and often cold within a minute of arriving. One particular annoyance is that on seating, we were told that we could only order from the preset menu at £40 per head and so we did not really have much of a choice. We had a particular problem as we had 3 vegetarians and 1 meat eater and were initially told we could only have 2 veg and 2 meat set meals - after some debate, they finally allowed us to have 3 veg, 1 meat.
For £160, we had a few tasty dishes (meze style) - all fresh and well presented but rather small - moussaka and lamb main dish, again tasty but not hot - a rack of deserts, fruits, nuts and mint tea. We also purchased some wine which was too young and fizzy and asked for this to be changed - the staff seemed rather surprised and short tempered - so why allow you to taste the wine? At £21 a bottle, I would say that I expect a good wine.
Overall, the food is great but grossly over priced and the lack of choice in individual dishes (because they said they were just too busy) forces you to spend £40 each. The service is poor, unfriendly - we had to wait nearly 1/2hr to get someones attention to get the bill! If you want to spend a lot of money of reasonable food, the sight of the odd belly dancer and some pretty unacceptable levels of service, then this might be the place for you. I personally would not recommend this place.
Levant Bar & Restaurant combines the spices and colours of the Middle East to produce a restaurant with a warm hue that serves a variety of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean dishes including mezze.