Lebanese food, much like Indian, Chinese, and Thai cuisine, is far too often forced to play by the rules of “cheap takeout”. Consumers expect their falafel to stay under a certain price point, but I’ve always found this to be incredibly unfair towards the brilliant chefs who are eager to treat this cuisine with the same painstaking attention to detail that French and Italian cuisine are often guilty of.
Touta should be every Lisbon local’s metric for Lebanese fine dining. From the moment I tasted the hummus with aquafaba I knew that Touta was so much more than another hummus-and-kebab corner shop, but it’s the warmth and love of its staff that really takes it over the edge.
This is a restaurant that wants to show you the underrepresented variety of its nations regions, and with a “home-made ingredients grocery store” in the back, it’s even worth visiting so you can nail these dishes at home.
O jornalismo que a Mensagem de Lisboa faz une comunidades,
conta histórias que ninguém conta e muda vidas.
Dantes pagava-se com publicidade,
mas isso agora é terreno das grandes plataformas.
Se gosta do que fazemos e acha que é importante,
se quer fazer parte desta comunidade cada vez maior,
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