The best Lebanese restaurants Dubai

The restaurant's name is taken from the street that housed the chain's first restaurant in Beirut, and which is an institution in Lebanon. Located in the heart of Souk al Bahar, the restaurant offers one of the most beautiful terraces for admiring the dancing fountains and the laser show at the Burj Khalifa. It's best to book in advance to enjoy a few mezze between the various shows, as the restaurant is very popular and the Levant-inspired interior lacks the charm of the exterior. Good food and reasonable prices.

Protected by the Heritage Department, the building, which dates from 1935, was the first trading centre in the city, serving as the headquarters of the Gray-McKenzie trading company. The low-ceilinged rooms are decorated in the traditional style. In this fairly typical and cool setting, the kitchen served is simple and unpretentious, but appropriate. A good address when visiting the museum and the souk, especially since restaurants are rather rare in this part of town. The wide shaded pontoon over the water is very popular.

Located in the heart of the superb Wafi souk, it is a very lively open-air patio and often crowded on weekends. In the same spirit as the shopping mall, the architecture and the menu are of Arab inspiration, the waiters are in traditional costume. A mile-long menu of Egyptian, Persian and Lebanese specialties. The desserts and the Moroccan tea are also very famous. The atmosphere with hookahs, the music and the quality of the menu, as well as the clientele, willingly local, make it a very recommendable place in a decor of oriental soap opera.

In competition with the eastern garden of the Ritz gardens, Al Khaima is a very good table. We cross the tree park of the hotel, on a gentle slope to the beach, to stop "under the tent", in fact a charming terrace lined with palm trees. Photophores, sky of lavender, elegant plates, superb, taste the wide selection of mezze. In the appetizer, too.

Here is the Lebanese fast food chain, created more than 20 years ago and which has more than 20 outlets in the Emirates. It offers fresh and healthy products and it will especially avoid you to consume macglobalized trans fats. Phoenician wraps for the digital generation based on markouk cooked on the rounded saj. We like the decoration, the very contemporary and bold logo. It's quick and easy before leaving when you want to eat well and as quickly as possible. They are present everywhere in Dubai and especially in shopping malls.

On the corner of a busy street, in the district of tailors and cloth merchants, Al Mallah has been delighting passers-by for almost forty years. It all started with a modest juice bar until it became a reference in this neighborhood. Today, the Lebanese restaurant serves classic dishes such as falafel, manakish, grilled meats and mezze, but it's the shawarma that has made it famous and for which it's most popular. According to Time Out Dubai magazine, it is one of the best in the emirate!

It's in the residential area of Jumeirah, a little off the Jumeirah road, that we enter this Lebanese restaurant with tables set up with red and white checkered tablecloths. Here is a "bistro" of traditional Lebanese neighborhood cuisine. The menu is full of humor and tells, like a scratch book, the story of the owners who own two establishments in Beirut. Everything is delicious, and the world comes flooding in especially after 1pm: mezze, grills and a large section of Manakich. Good value for money.

Wafi Gourmet has a very nice terrace well situated at the Rez du Mall in front of the fountains. A good address also for gourmets, and we are all in front of these Levantine victuals. It is the occasion to taste the mezze or to order a shawarma. It's hard to look away from the pyramids of pastries and baskets full of oriental sweets that occupy a large part of this delicatessen. Tastings on the spot or to take away, large choice of dates, dried fruits, honeys. The best hummus in town.

Located in the heart of the Grand Hyatt, here is an excellent Lebanese restaurant with the Grand Hyatt touch. Wood-fired grilled lamb, delicious shish taouk and kebabs... The mezze are innovative and the fresh salads crispy to perfection. The Arabian-influenced décor is particularly striking with its colourful glass lanterns: it feels like dining in a Bedouin's opulent tent with orchestra, belly dancing and guaranteed atmosphere, but you can also choose the terrace. Finally, you can extend the evening with a shisha.

The bright facade with colorful letters looks a bit like a Foire du Trône, but the interior is more in line with what you would expect to find in a Lebanese restaurant. The long room has two arcades and small private tables for families are provided at the back. One comes here especially for the mezze (Lebanese appetizers) and the various brochettes. Mezze baskets to take away. The terrace is pleasant in winter: it overlooks the popular and lively street.

The Dubai International Financial Centre, a nest of banks and investment companies, also presents a different, more festive, gourmet face, in a highly successful New York-style setting. Good value addresses include Cafée Bateel, Au Bon Pain, Caffé Nero, Al Mandaloun (hookahs), Yo Sushi and its electric train, More and Starbucks. The best time to go is at lunchtime, so you can admire the surrounding towers at the same time: a lovely stroll along the tempo City, neck-and-neck at lunchtime with traders in striped suits.

The oldest Lebanese of the city in a kitsch-cool setting, both on the terrace and in the room with the stone walls and the Arab benches. In the evening, music and belly dancer. The dishes are simply tasty: Try in particular the kishkash kishkash, the speciality of the house. Very animated weekends.

A welcome stop in this restaurant which offers a large terrace with a rather nice view on the Burj al Arab and the canals of Madinat Jumeirah. This Lebanese restaurant offers good value for money and we recommend the delicious minty lemonade, some mezze like humus and spinach fatayer and the Mixed Grill Al Makan. The service is attentive and fast. Why not a little shisha to finish the meal? This restaurant, whose name means "The House" is a sure value in the souk of Madinat Jumeirah.