El-Bayeh family opens their second El-Phoenician

If your experience of Lebanese food is limited to meat shaved from a vertical rotisserie, you don’t know what you’re missing out on. Pay a visit to Walsh Bay’s newest resident El-Phoenician, and let them show you the light.

Inner-Sydney’s first fine dining Lebanese restaurant is run by the same award-winning family that has been luring fattoush-loving foodies out to Parramatta for the last few years.

Perched by the waterfront at Walsh Bay, this sleek new restaurant is pumping out traditional Lebanese food in a not-so traditional environment. This ain’t no kebab stop.

And even if you’re planning to drop in on your lunch break you’d better clear the calendar and your belly. The El-Bayeh family want their food to be enjoyed banquet style, and when the Lebanese say banquet – they’re not kidding.

Think soft breads, homemade hummus, pine nut-topped chili fish and oil-drizzled tender lamb tartare. And that’s just your appetizers and mezza. There are, of course, the always-popular shish kebabs, but El-Phoenician’s are cooked with fine skill and served with top-shelf Lebanese wine.

Drop by on the weekend for a true stomach spectacle. Be treated to ‘the lot’ including a belly dancing spectacle.