Comptoir Libanais Poland Street

I wanted to like this place. The staff were lovely and the place itself was cute. Maybe eating in is a different experience to taking out. But I was very disappointed with the steaming hot salad in my take away wraps. Who in the history of eating has ever wanted hot salad? I appreciate that they maybe need to get food out the door quickly. But the way to do that is not to heat up the salad along with the meat in a wrap. That is frankly disgusting. I wonder if the owner/manager has ever eaten on of these preprepared reheated in the microwave/oven wraps? I should have realised when I saw the preprepared wraps and the microwave/ovens behind. What an idiot I was. Oh well. I imagine eating in is much nicer. Don’t know why people are complaining about value for money. I thought it was keenly priced for soho. Even if the take away wraps were god awful.

The meze platter had variety and was very tasty. Recommend highly. The fish and rice was also delicious. Didn’t like the lamb balls… something about the texture. Could done with 2 platters really! Service is friendly and casual so do not expect fast service. I’d definitely this cuisine.

Not sure what happened during our dinner, seem like typical case of one table where everything goes wrong. Huge delays to get food, drinks, bill... waiting staff keep forgetting to bring flatbread for example. Bottom line 3 hours for a meal shows how long delays were. Glad I was in good company with friends I have not seen for long time. Still rated 3 stars as team tried to make up for shortfalls with comp round of drink and 1 free dessert.

My friend and I shared the mezze platter. It was tasty and the perfect size for 2 or 3 to share. Good value too.

Overall we had a lovely experience. The food as usual was gorgeous. The only slight let down was the table we were given (you couldn't get out to go to the loo without nearly knocking your neighbours drink over) but this was due to how busy it was. This also meant service was rather slow it took a long time to order and our drinks took a while to arrive. Again, this was all due to the fact the restaurant was so busy as it was Friday night. Would recommend!