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- Comptoir Libanais is the latest venture from Tony Kitous - who is credited with putting the glamour into Middle Eastern cuisine at his Levant, Pasha and Kenza restaurants.
www.levant.co.uk
www.pasha-restaurant.co.uk
www.kenza-restaurant.com
He's bringing his signature style to casual dining with his new canteens and delicatessens, making Lebanese food accessible and affordable on the High Street. - Privacy Type:
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Comptoir Libanais
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- Comptoir Libanais
- Category:
- Common Interest - Food & Drink
- Description:
- Comptoir Libanais is the latest venture from Tony Kitous - who is credited with putting the glamour into Middle Eastern cuisine at his Levant, Pasha and Kenza restaurants.
www.levant.co.uk
www.pasha-restaurant.co.uk
www.kenza-restaurant.com
He's bringing his signature style to casual dining with his new canteens and delicatessens, making Lebanese food accessible and affordable on the High Street. - Privacy Type:
- Open: All content is public.
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- - NOW RATED LONDON'S BEST £10 MEAL BY TIME OUT -
Comptoir Libanais offers healthy and fresh food - with a wide vegetarian selection - at affordable prices in a contemporary setting. It's a place to meet, eat and share, exploring new flavours along with the familiar hommos and pitta bread we've all come to love.
You can try a mezze selection of dips and salads to share - labne, tabbouleh, baba ghanuj - or a hot wrap or tagine. Indulge in patisserie or baklawa with an espresso, cappuccino or fresh mint tea.
Comptoir Libanais is now open at:
- 65 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 1PZ
- The Balcony, Westfield Shopping Centre, W12 7GE
Coming soon to:
- 26 London Street, Paddington, W2 1HH
- O2 Centre, 255 Finchley Road, London, NW3 6LU
Vogue says "We love Comptoir Libanais on Wigmore Street, W1, not only for its delicious Lebanese 'fast' food (hummus, doughy Moroccan flatbread, steaming bowls of chicken tagine) but for its stylish surrounds - blue-and-white-tiled walls, North African straw bags for sale, and fabulous retro packaging."
Time Out has given us a 5-star rating, saying “This delightful shop and café chain looks set to do for Lebanese food what Carluccio’s Caffés did for Italian – give it ‘affordable chic’ cachet. And it’s certainly chic, with its exquisite food packaging, stylish interior and international clientele. And affordable, at less than a tenner per head.”
View London gives us 4 stars and says "Authentic, excellent value and offering an abundance of choice, the food at Comptoir Libanais is the real star."
Magic FM says we are "oozing Lebanese lusciousness" and calls us "the perfect respite to those indulging in a day of shopping, exploring the wonders of the West End or simply out for a stroll" with "mouth-watering trays of fabulously fresh Lebanese food tantalizing you from the moment you've set foot through the door".
Esquire's feeling the love too. They say "Lebanese cafe Comptoir Libanais has catapulted itself into our unofficial list of favourite lunch spots. It takes Leon's fast, healthy, design-conscious ethos and gives it a Middle Eastern twist - and without a sheesha pipe in sight. The menu of wraps, mezze (make sure you try the prawn falafel), salads and dips, flavoured breads and more substantial tagines is varied enough to cure even the worst dose of Pret-A-Manger fatigue."
Terry Durack waxed lyrical in the Independent on Sunday, noting "It's a caff, a deli, a shop, a fast-food outlet – and the cleverest thing about it is that Lebanese food doesn't at all mind being mass-produced. Colourful mezze of dips and lamb-filled pastries, big chunky wraps, tangy salads, trays of honey-soaked pastries... It's a modern way to eat ancient food." He added "You get all this – the style, the fresh, juicy food, the flexibility – for under a tenner each. Kitous has stolen Lebanese food from the ghetto and put it on Main Street by honouring its principles of freshness and generosity rather than trying to cheat them."
Elle Decoration calls us 'Cafe Cool: A Taste Of Lebanon Comes To London', saying "Our latest discovery is new Lebanese cafe and delicatessen Comptoir Libanais, which lured us in with its brightly patterned interior and tasty Middle Eastern treats - think falafel, tagines, rosewater macaroons and fresh mint tea. The concept of Tony Kitous (best known for his opulent Moroccan restaurant Pasha in Kensington), it's an informal space to sit down for breakfast, lunch or tea, but you'll probably want to snap up some goodies to take home too - cookbooks, baklava and embroidered handbags from Marrakech are all part of the mix. Plus, look out for the striking mural at the back of the space by London designer Rana Salam, who's createed artwork for Harvey Nichols and contemporary design store Mint."
The London Word gives us a rave review, saying "All is done with a unique twist that adds flair and just plain cool to the place ... But what Comptoir Libanais does best, as should be the case with every restaurant, is food. The stuff on display at the counter looks absolutely mouth-watering and doesn't disappoint ...Oh, and the staff are friendly. Always a plus. What a great place. Go, go, go."
