Al Waha (Bayswater)

• Moorish moutabel (aubergine dip) and fantastic hot sambousek (a pastry stuffed with cheese or meats) melds well together to make for a brilliant taster of the best of Lebanese cooking
• The dining room is in two sections
• The walls adorned with art by a Syrian painter
• The exposed brickwork and hard floor combined with music playing would have meant for a noisy room had it been busier
• On this weekday lunch was very quiet
• The latter was still warm when served
• Hummous was served with a few chickpeas as garnish
• Was flavoured with sesame paste
• Salad made with crushed bulgur wheat
• A pair of vine leaves stuffed with rice avoided the dryness that can afflict this dish (12/20)
• Falafel stuffed with ground chickpeas and broad beans were very pleasant (13/20)
• A sambousek pastry stuffed with lamb was well seasoned
• Finally kibbeh maklieh was fried ground lamb with crushed wheat
• The seemed reasonable for what was simple but very pleasant food
• The food that I ate was all competently made
• So when my mother said that my hummus was great but there was an even smoother hummus out there in one little Lebanese restaurant in Bayswater
• A very humble corner location and no loud indications that they make the best hummus in London (pfffft we shall see
• We sat down on a solid leather sofa at a small corner table which was covered with a perfectly ironed white table cloth
• I was content with the first page &ndash
• A mixed vegetarian mezze with all the trimmings
• So she took matters into her own hands and cut them all into manageable pieces whilst we chatted away with mellow Arabian music in the background
• T help that all of the other dips on my mezze were also so pumped with lemon
• Are soft little parcels of dough and cooked with spinach inside
• As the little falafels had a little half hole in them and were sprinkled with sesame seeds
• This is a staple food in the Mediterranean countries and is made pretty much the same way wherever you go
• In between the rainbow of food in front of me I was having sips of the delicious lentil soup
• T need to add as there was more than enough lemon going on in my mezze
• I was back to happy me and satisfied after finishing all my food with a little cherry on top

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