Restaurant Review: Noura Lebanese Restaurants

Earlier this week, a friend took me to a wonderful Lebanese restaurant, Noura. This is so far the best Lebanese restaurant I've tried in London (better than the other Lebanese restaurant I reviewed earlier). This is a restaurant that provides excellent food, good service, and a lively atmosphere. I went to the Belgravia Location. For the French folks and the travelers, they also have locations in Paris.

In Lebanese restaurants, the best way to eat is to order a lot of mezzes for everyone to share and that's exactly what we did. We ordered labneh, tabbouleh, grilled jawaneh, kebbeh, lahm bi ajine, and sojok. Now for the translations:

1. Labneh is a slightly sour white cheese dip. It was delicious eaten with the fresh pita bread!
2. Tabbouleh is my favorite salad. It's made with minced parsley, crushed wheat, tomatoes, onion, lemon juice and olive oil. For my personal recipe, click here. The salad was wonderfully done at Noura, even though I prefer my own version. 
3. Grilled jawaneh are charcoal grilled chicken wings marinated in lemon and garlic. They were amazing!
4. Kebbeh is a fried oval shell made of lamb and cracked wheat filled with minced lamb and pine nuts. The description probably doesn't sound too appetizing if you've never tried, so I recommend to just try it and see. The kebbeh here was so fresh and was perfectly cooked. 
5. Lahm bi ajine is a Lebanese flatbread pizza made with minced lamb, tomato, onions, and pine nuts according to the menu. However, ours had coriander added to it. It was very good, but gave the dish a different flavor. For my own home recipe, click here. 
6. Sojok is a spicy sausage. It wasn't spicy in an tabasco sauce way, but rather it was made with all sorts of fragrant spices which gave it an extremely exotic and pleasing flavor.

For dessert, we ordered Halawat el Jebn, which is a cheese roll filled with ashta clotted cream and served with syrup. To drink with it, we had white coffee (called Orange Blossom Coffee on the menu). It's a very good digestive that consists of hot water and a bit of orange blossom water. Although, now that I'm looking at the dessert menu more closely, I suddenly have an urge to try all of their other desserts!! I highly recommend a visit here for some wonderful Lebanese food. They have 4 London locations and they can even deliver to your house or office, so you really have no excuse not to try it.