Eat Out London!Arabesque
Arabesque Restaurant
The countries bounded by the Mediterranean Sea produce some of the finest food there is to offer.
They have provided us with a vast and wonderful repertoire of recipes, ancient and new respect for good food that is celebrated in this restaurant.
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Arabesque returns in a blaze of glory | Camden New Journal
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The food – Middle Eastern and Mediterranean – at Arabesque is simple but good A DRAMATIC fire is a key chapter in the story of Arabesque, a neighbourhood restaurant in Swiss Cottage.
This small two-floor restaurant is tucked away near Hampstead Theatre, marked by a few tables outside.
The menu spans Middle Eastern and Mediterranean classics, from falafel and Greek salad to kebabs and calamari.
“Tabsi”, a main dish, is a classic Iraqi recipe of layered potatoes, aubergine and other vegetables baked in a rich tomato sauce.
One shows a camel grumpily turning a wooden water wheel; the other an Egyptian family in Luxor huddled together outside.
Arabesque, 23 Winchester Road, Hampstead, London, NW3 3NR ...
Restaurant review: Ishbilia | Life and style | The Guardian
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The owners of Lebanese joints understand this cute psychological ploy better than most: walk into any decent Leb, and invariably greeting you on the table is a bowl of giant salad vegetables and a dish of olives.
But it seemed to suggest that, regardless of Middle Eastern traditions of warmth and generosity to guests, whatever the restaurant lays out will be factored into the pricing structure in the way that Michelin joints treat you to impossibly fancy petits fours with a £6 cup of coffee.
A moment of tension when we asked for a bigger table was grudgingly resolved, and we were reseated at the rear of a small, square room closer in spirit to the utilitarianism of cheap and cheerless Chinatown (off-white walls with the odd squiggly abstract) than to gaudily Arabesque Knightsbridge, but the place was packed with moneyed punters all the same.
Generally with Middle Eastern cooking, main courses tend towards the uninteresting and samey (scores of near-identical lamb dishes, the odd fish and chicken dish).
And if you were to cleave to the salad bowl, and be the first person in recorded history to polish off a mutant pepper, you could eat for nothing.
Fort Arabesque, Hurghada, Egypt | Travel Republic
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