
To the abundant offer of spaces in Seville dedicated to brunch there are some exceptionalities, culinary rarities capable of giving an added value to this intermediate meal between breakfast and lunch. Beirutina is one of those stimulating spaces that you will not hate.
Restaurant, cafeteria, gastrobar. There are several epithets that can be given to this honest business that you can go to at almost any time. The smell emanating from Fernán Caballero street makes you suspect that in its interior they cook food that is both distant and appetizing at the same time.
Beirutina is traditional Lebanese cuisine revisited in a selection of Mediterranean recipes. The menu condenses about twenty dishes and all of them share the fresh, herbaceous and spicy flavors of the Middle East.
With a rustic look and exposed brick, Beirutina announces a meeting between the Lebanese cafés of the 70s and the Sevillians.
In the lounge or on the terrace you can enjoy a specialty coffee(they include a unique recipe with orange blossom, the Beiruina café blanc), a wine (they also have them, of course, of Lebanese origin) or two suggestions: Lebanese lemonade or ayran (a yogurt-based drink).
The menu includes breakfast or brunch and lunch (with manoushes and oven-roasted specialties). In addition, the proposal incorporates desserts and small sweet treats with pistachio as the undoubted protagonist.
What the Beirutina menu is like
Lebanese Fourat El Achkar Gharios settled in Seville more than a decade ago and ventured last fall with this project that embraces the flavors of Lebanon.
Going into detail, the diner has before him bites to spread. Such as muhammara; labné, conventional Lebanese yogurt with black olives; several varieties of hummus; or eggplant mutabal. It is followed by salads (you have several fatush and tabbouleh) and fatté, layered yogurt bowls.
Heartier dishes are fueled by man’oushe baked on the spot with akkawi cheese and halloumi or accompanied by beef kafta or chicken shawerma, among others. Another popular choice is the eggplant, tomato, onion and pomegranate vinegar tartar.
And the counter, a prelude to their open kitchen, is an elegant display of sweet specialties. Namely: knefeh (a kind of cake with melted akkawi inside), pistachio and almond cookies, baklava or ma’moul, Lebanese pastries filled with dates.
Thus, Beirutina is natural, close and very tasty to broaden our gastronomic horizons in the city.