Beyrouths

Restaurant in Streatham
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7 / 10 from 1 review
Address
20-21
The High Parade
Streatham High Road
Streatham
London
SW16 1EX
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Cuisine
Other
Region
Streatham
Nearest Station
Streatham Hill
0.27 miles

All In London Review

A simple take on Middle Eastern food

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Middle Eastern food has benefited hugely from the street food explosion. Falafel wraps, grilled meats with hummus and fried pastries stuffed with minced lamb are perfect fare to be served out of a food truck and eaten on the go, and these are also among the most frequently transplanted dishes from Lebanon and the surrounding areas. Beyrouths, a proper sit-down restaurant, offers them all along with more substantial main courses like grilled fish and baby chicken.

We’re in the Streatham branch (the other two being in Balham and Islington), where they’ve employed the restaurants go-to industrial design look, with a blown up poster of a vintage car covering one wall as a centrepiece. There are a few tables plonked on the pavement too, although this stretch of Streatham High Road is not a particularly scenic one.

We start with sambousak, the Levantine equivalent of the samosa, golden deep fried pastry filled with feta cheese, which is hard to go wrong with. Moutabal is a dip made with grilled aubergines and parsley, sweetened with pomegranate seeds. A fillet of grilled swordfish comes with pomegranate sauce too (a stalwart of cuisine from this region), and a side of chunky chips is included in the £15 price tag. Kafta meshwi are two skewers of minced lamb seasoned with onions and parsley, which we order with labneh, delicious thick yoghurt with a liberal glug of olive oil and sprinkled with dried thyme.

There’s a small selection of drinks but you can also BYO to keep costs down. It’s a simple, affordable take on Middle Eastern food, with a meal for two and a drink coming to around £50.

Reviewed by Leila
Published on Jul 13, 2015


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