Caterham, Lebanese Restaurant Guide

“A great neighbourhood place” – this Tooting café maintains its reputation with “reliably fresh and tasty” Lebanese cooking.

“The best Middle Eastern for miles” – a smart operation, handy for Hampton Court Palace, that offers “bold flavours a world away from many Lebanese places”; there is “lots on offer to explore – if anything perhaps too much”, and also a newer offshoot, Mezzet Dar, a couple of doors down, that turns out Spanish and Lebanese-inspired tapas.

“A very nice selection of Lebanese fare” helps win an early thumbs-up for this three-year-old venue, which occupies a simple, modern café space in the town centre. In his September 2022 review, The Observer’s Jay Rayner was also a fan: “a small but perfectly judged, perfectly run restaurant with… open kitchen pumping out the smells of good things grilling over charcoal” cooker “with an especially light, fresh touch”.