Cosy restaurant with fast service. The Lebanese specialties offered are good and tasty and the staff very friendly.
Restaurants in Ticino are changing, ethnic cuisine is becoming more and more present, and Ticinese appreciate that they no longer have to go abroad to taste dishes from around the world.
Beirut is a great example of this phenomenon; it is located in Paradiso in a pleasant pedestrian alley on which several restaurant tables are located.
The menu is composed as follows: on the one hand a very long list of mezzè, or tapas-like appetizer dishes, then a well-stocked list of main courses consisting mainly of grilled fish or meat accompanied by fries or rice with vegetables and spices.
The main courses are good but the real goodies are to be found among the middles: we tasted tabuleh (a salad made with parsley and vegetables), typical Arabian bread, babaganoush (baked and seasoned eggplant to be spread on bread), falafel, hummus (a kind of chickpea pate seasoned with oil) and sweet and sour prawns. Really nice discoveries, indeed we advise you--but the waitresses in the restaurant also say so--to have dinner only with mezzè so you can taste as much of the Lebanese cuisine as possible!
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For a full menu consisting of 3/4 mezzè expect from 40 to 60 francs per person.