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122 Jermyn Street, SW1Y 4UJ Full details & map

Restaurant: Lebanese

Time Out says 2 Users say 5/5 Rate it

By Time Out Editors Posted: Oct 28 2011

An oasis of Middle Eastern delights among the Piccadilly Circus steakhouses, this branch of the small, Paris-based Noura chain provides consistently top-notch Lebanese food and gracious service. The restaurant has two aspects. Lunch (shame the set menus isn't cheaper) takes place on the white-walled, high-ceilinged side. In the evening, the action shifts to an area of gauzy old-gold curtains and cushions under the blood-red glass droplets of a massive chandelier.

The lengthy menu lists masses of meze, grills galore and several oven-baked dishes, plus diverse desserts. Silky smooth as a eunuch's chin, Noura's houmous is peerless. Moutabal (chargrilled aubergine purée) comes peppered with pomegranate seeds to offset its richness. It benefited from a very free hand with lemon juice, which was also the dominant flavour in the fattoush salad and tangy chicken livers. Of other hot meze, crisp falafels were better than doughy kibbeh and fatayer. Extra pitta, warm and puffy, arrived unbidden. Pastries, especially a semolina flour and date morsel accompanying fortifying coffee, are exquisite.

Yet although the food is beautifully presented, the serving bowls are plastic, not earthenware, and one white dish was chipped. The banquette looked worse for wear too. We hope these aren't signs that Noura is coasting.

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Tags: Middle Eastern, Lebanese, Business, Groups, Late night, Romance, Central, St James's, Expensive, Restaurant

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Noura details

Address

Noura

122 Jermyn Street SW1Y 4UJ

Transport Green Park or Piccadilly Circus tube

Telephone

020 7839 2020

Noura website

Meals served noon-midnight daily

Main courses £14-£22. Set lunch £22.50 2 courses. Set dinner (5-7pm) £16.50 2 courses

Credit cards AmEx, DC, MC, V

Facilities

Babies and children welcome ( high chairs ), Available for hire, Disabled ( toilet )

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Comments & ratings 5/5 (Average of 2 ratings)

By Medi.M - Nov 29 2011

5/5

I celebrated my 21th anniversary. The staff is professional, attentive. The atmosphere was very good (Music etc..). The food is truly Lebanese, the best I ever had in London so far. All my friends and I enjoyed our night. I would highly recommend it.

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By H Hienzsch - Nov 23 2011

5/5

We came from Germany to celebrate my 70th birthday on a Friday night here with friends. Very friendly and attentive staff (birthday cake!), very good food (we have been to the Near Orient quite often, and the food here was as authentic as could be). The live music again was very authentic with a very good singer. And the belly dancer - just superb! We enjoyed very much the other guests - obviously mostly of Lebanese origin, especially a very distinguished doctor, who sang along with the female singer like a professional! We'll come again!

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By BB Brown - Nov 13 2010

We had a lovely meal here, we reserved via Time Out and when we arrived we were shown to a romantic table with a more authentic look than most of the restaurant. The food was very delicious and the skewered meats in particular were very tender and tasty. The staff were very polite and attentive...but not too much. Recomended