Blue Garden Lebanese Restaurant Review!

On a work trip with my dad, we went on the hunt for a gluten free dinner near are acommidation pretty late at night so are options where limited. This is a resturant that we happened to stumble upon and thought that we would check out the menu, and suprisingly found loads of gf symbols all over the menu which gave me loads of choices to choose from.

Before our food arrived, are waiter bought out a mezze of small nibbley bits to start which included pickled vegtables, a whipped yoghurt and honey which I was'nt a huge fan off but my dad absolutly loved, a hot sauce which I was obssesed with and some hummous and bread. Initally they did'nt bring out any gluten free bread, but went out to especially buy me some warbotons rollls which was so kind! They were super soft and great to dip in the different sauce options.

In order to try a range of food options, I chose a range of three starter options which where a board of falaphels with a tahini sauce, a fava bean stew and a spicy potaoto with grilled pepper mix.

My faveirote of these dishes has to be the falaphels, they were super crisp and full of a herby chickpea flavour. The tahini sauce was a perfect accompinmant as it was creamy with a slight sesame flavour. It was perfect when mixed with the inital spicy sauce that was bought out as it created a combination of the crisp falaphel, spice from the sauce and creaminess from the tahini. These falaphels where definety the best that I have ever tried so if you do visit the Blue garden lebanese resturant these are a must try dish.

Another great acommnimant to the tahini and spicy sauce combination was the batata harra which is cubes of fried potato with garlic, sweet pepper, coriander and chilli. This dish was packed with flavour, with the soft potatos takeing up all the flavour of the ingreidents it had been fried with. This is one that I am definelty going to try to recreate for a quick uni meal to go with something like a piece of salmon.

The last dish that I tried was a fava bean stew in a tomato based sauce with a creamy topping. I loved the flavours of this one as it was a mix of herbs, spice and rich tomato flavour but I was'nt sold on the texture as I have never had anything like it before. The beans were'nt entirely whole, with the beans being ground up into the stew. However due to the strong flavours it acted as a great dip for the gluten free bread, falaphels and cucumber slices that where given to us.

Now being pescetarien I can't tell you much about the meat dishes other than the fact that there was a lot of gluten free meat dish options includeing shawamas and soups. My dad had the chicken shawama which he really enjoyed and we could see through to the kitchen makeing it fresh! There was even a few gluten free dessert options includeing fresh fruit, a choclate tart and ice cream.

Let me know if you try out this resturant and if theres any dishes that you try that you think I should try! Head over to my instagram @rubysgfkitchen to comment and keep up with my regular posts.

Thank you for reading,

Ruby x