Sliema scores a new Lebanese restaurant that’s the real deal

Colourful, cosy, quirky, comfort food - just some of the ingredients that makes this new Lebanese restaurant in Sliema so hard not to like.

Beirut Bay opened around two or three months ago and in my humble opinion, the food from Lebanon it offers ticks all the boxes.

Poke your head in the door, and you’ll pretty much be able to take in the entire venue in one quick sweep. It's the kind of place you can go for a quick lunch, stay for hours or for a casual date night.





The cold mezze section offers baba ganoush, vine leaves (stuffed with rice, parsley, onion, lemon), motabal (grilled stuffed eggplant), and two kinds of hummus. All are beautifully-plated and prepared with love. 

Makanek (homemade Lebanese sausage with spices), Kibbeh (a Lebanese national dish made with spiced ground meat and bulgur wheat), and hummus with shawarma or ground beef are some items from the hot mezze section. 

The next rung on the menu’s ladder involves veg friendly fattet and foul. 

Choose fattet hummus (a famous Levantine dish usually served for brunch consisting of boiled chickpeas covered with thick yoghurt and tahini), fattet zeit (toasted or fried bread, boiled chickpeas and a special sauce made in-house) or foul bil zeit (fava beans with lemon juice, olive oil, garlic dressing which is topped with tomato, parsley and cumin).

On the sandwich front, Beirut Bay invites you to try their shawarma (chicken or beef), shish taouk (pita bread stuffed with well-marinated cubes of chicken), kafta arayes (pita bread filled with ground beef and lamb tossed with spices, parsley, onions, which is then baked in the oven).

Falafel or grilled halloumi pita bread sandwiches are also on offer. 

A plethora of the above dishes can be made into a meal where you will get rice or fries. To end your meal, bite into traditional Lebanese desserts such as kennafeh or maamoul.

The dishes are as colourful as the decor, most certainly authentic, freshly-prepared and full of saliva-inducing flavours. 

Beirut Bay
Triq San Francis Street
Sliema
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