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Hands tearing warm flatbread at a communal table
Close-up of blistered eggplant skin with charred marks
Long table shot from above with arms reaching across dishes
Single glass of arak clouding with water poured in

Mezze

Lebanese pop-up dinners
in hidden courtyards

Pomegranate halved and bleeding jewel-red seeds on a wooden board
Courtyard strung with Edison bulbs over a long dinner table
Laughing guest mid-bite with eyes closed in delight
Stack of mismatched hand-thrown ceramic plates

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A meal that starts at the market
and ends when the candles go out

7:00 AM · Morning

The market, before the crowds

It starts at dawn. Hands moving through piles of eggplant, testing the weight of pomegranates, filling baskets with mint so fresh it leaves green on your palms. Nothing from a distributor. Everything chosen by touch.

Sourced same-day, every Saturday

Hands selecting fresh eggplants and mint at an early morning market
2:00 PM · Afternoon

Dough stretched, coals lit

The kitchen is borrowed but the hands are not. Flour dusts a forearm. A vertical spit is assembled. Labneh hangs in cloth from a hook, dripping slowly into a bowl. The coals take forty minutes to reach the right color.

No shortcuts. No shortcuts.

Baker's forearm dusted with flour while stretching flatbread dough
6:30 PM · Golden Hour

The courtyard becomes something else

Linen goes down. Edison bulbs come on one by one. Mismatched ceramics are stacked at each place — no two the same. The arak goes into ice. The smell of charcoal and za'atar drifts into the street and stops people mid-stride.

Location revealed 48 hours before

Courtyard restaurant strung with Edison bulbs at golden hour
8:00 PM · Service

Dishes that don't stop arriving

Motion blur. Steam. Arms crossing over the table. Lamb carved tableside onto flatbread. Fattoush scattered with pomegranate seeds that catch the candlelight. The arak goes cloudy when the water hits it. Nobody checks their phone.

Communal table. Dishes for the whole table.

Motion-blurred shot of plates being served at a busy dinner table
11:30 PM · Last Glass

Crumbs, wax, and a seat with your name on it

The candles are low. The table is a map of the evening — crumbs, wax drips, a pomegranate half gone to seed. Somebody orders a second round of knafeh. The next pop-up date has already been set.

The next one is already filling.

Empty dinner table at end of evening with candle wax and crumbs

Nobody wanted it to end. That's the only review that matters.

— Nour Khalil, attended March 2025

Eight strangers who leave as friends

No separate tables. No à la carte. One long table, dishes for everyone, and arak that keeps appearing.

48seats

per evening, never more

9dishes

arrive without asking

4hours

the table is yours

100%

sold out every weekend

Long communal table with Lebanese mezze dishes spread across it

Every dish arrives unannounced.
That's the point.

“The lamb came off the spit and landed on flatbread still warm from the coals. I stopped speaking mid-sentence.”

Portrait of Yasmine Tabet

Yasmine Tabet

Food writer, attended twice

“We booked as a group of eight and left as twelve. The strangers at the other end became part of our table by the second course.”

Portrait of Marco Esposito

Marco Esposito

Regular guest since 2024

Portrait of Priya Mehta

“The location reveal felt like a treasure hunt. When we pushed through that wooden door and saw the courtyard lit up — I actually gasped.”

Priya Mehta · Food blogger, @priyaeats

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Three dates. 48 seats each. Locations revealed 48 hours before. We'll confirm by text.

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Locations revealed 48 hours before each dinner.
No refunds — but seats are transferable.

Candlelit courtyard table set for a Lebanese dinner

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The address arrives by text 48 hours before. We ask you not to share it publicly until after the evening.

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