Welcoming:8/10 Menu Choices: 9/10 Food Presentation: 9/10
Food Temperature: 9/10 Food Taste: 18/20 Service: 8/10
Ambiance/Music: 9/10 Architecture/Interior: 10/10 Air Quality: 9/10
Total: 89/100
Sunday or what can be considered a family day can beautifully be enjoyed at Al Mandaloun Dbayeh, where good food, joyful and pleasant ambiance, professional staff meet. And to top things off, there’s a play area for the kids who never seem to stay at the table for more than ten minutes.
Today, accompanied with the extended family, we decided to go out for lunch at Al Mandaloun. We reached at 2pm to discover a place fully packed. Everyone seemed jolly, happy, smiling, mingling and eating in a pleasant ambiance we often miss in our country.
Lunch started with homemade chips followed by some Lebanese specialties we ordered specially from the salad bar: mashed potato with olive oil, baba ghannouj and fatayer. What I thought would be normal appetizers turned out to be superb. The baba ghannouj is better than many Lebanese restaurants around, the mashed potato is close to the one mezze restaurants offer and the mini crunchy fatayer are simply WOW! All of this is accompanied with two baskets filled with a selection of homemade French bread.
We enjoyed Lebanese bites in an international restaurant, without the Lebanese restaurant feel where waiters run like headless chickens as they throw plates on the table one on top of the other.
To tell you the truth, I was looking hard to find one single negative comment to make, with no success.Salad bar time before moving to the interesting stuff. In the middle of the space, a long salad bar fridge displays fresh items. Plates are refilled on the spot as each finishes. There’s a variety of bread and a large choice of sauces. A rich bowl of salad with a slice of Marguerite pizza and on it’s way, the main dish was coming. The pizza is very, very good. Thin and generous with a round and slightly crunchy border.
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