Cedars Restaurant
Milton
Cedars Restaurant brings an authentic and delectable taste of the Middle East to Milton's Park Road dining precinct.
With a focus on classic Lebanese cuisine, all dishes are prepared from scratch with fresh quality ingredients and are amongst the best you'll find anywhere in Brisbane.
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Diners can take a seat in one of the many indoor dining nooks or on the outdoor undercover terrace, where you can feast like royalty while watching the world go by.
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The substantial mezze menu is bursting with fresh traditional flavours, and everything comes highly recommended. Choose from hommos, plain or topped with sauteed mince with meat and ghee-fried pine nuts and almonds; mouttable eggplant (chargrilled, mashed with tahini and drizzled with lemon and virgin olive oil); hand-rolled stiffed grape leaves with pomegranate syrup; or batata with kezbara (fried potato cubes with coriander, garlic, spices, virgin olive oil and lemon).
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Other must-tries include rkakat cheese (cheese, herbs & spices rolled in dough), fried stuffed kebbeh, sambusek (house-made dough pocket stuffed with seasoned meat, pomegranate syrup & house-blended spices) or shanklesh (aged dried yoghurt cheese with herbs & chilli, topped with veges and olive oil).
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Other mouth-watering choices include spinach fatayer (house made dough pocket stuffed with spinach, diced onion & spices); grilled chicken wings marinated with house blend herbs & spices, with garlic lemon dip; green beans mousaka (green beans cooked with assorted veges); kafta balls (ground meat with parsley, onion and spices, topped with pomegranate sauce) or makanek (meat, spice and pine nut sausages with pomegranate sauce).
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All bread at Cedars is house-made, baked fresh and served hot out of the oven, and can be enjoyed plain as an accompaniment to the mezze, or as a dish in its own right, stuffed with traditional flavours, such as cheese and herbs or ground meat, herbs, tomato, hot pepper paste, herbs and house-blend dressing.
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Whilst it would be easy to feast on the huge variety of mezze alone, the house speciality is the char-grilled kebab mains, including signature dish Cedars Shawarma Platter - a mixed wrap platter of lamb and chicken kebabs in Arabic bread, served with veggies, pickles, tahini sauce and chips.
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Also highly recommended is the chef's special, Chicken Moussahan: markok bread filled with grilled chicken, sumac, onions, almonds & extra virgin olive oil. And for groups of four, worth ordering is the Cedar Chargrilled Mixed (4 skewers each of lamb fillet, shish tawouk and kafta and 4 lamb cutlets, wrapped in oven-baked dough and spicy hot bread, served with chips and vegies).
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Drinks-wise, Cedars offers a range of classic and Middle Eastern flavoured cocktails and mocktails; Lebanese, Mexican and local craft beers, an extensive selection of spirits and liqueurs, a concise menu of boutique wines.
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And, for those who wish to try the full traditional dining experience, there's a hookah hut on the terrace so diners can indulge in a hookah pipe after dinner as is the custom in the Middle East.