Excellent Restaurant and they would call it a fast food restaurant as their sister restaurant is…read moreacross the street and Grill is added to the name and much more expensive but I have to admit if we were in Geneva longer we would visit as they had some menu items that we really love. We ordered the mixed platter, one kibbie, and a small tabouli salad. The Kibbie was so good that we finished before we were able to take a picture...sorry. The Mixed Platter was great. It had chicken, lamb, kofta with a bit of labne, hummus, and a salad of lettuce, tomato and onion. The tabouli was beautiful and it also eaten almost completely before we got a picture. All of the food was some of the best Lebanese food we have had. Service was great. The atmosphere was hopping with lots of locals enjoying their Sunday lunch. No reservations taken. The place is large so if there is a wait it won't take long. Highly recommend.

My fiancé and I absolutely loved the food here. It's a no frills restaurant serving amazing…read moreMediterranean food. Food comes out fast. I wish I could eat here everyday. My fiance had the mixed plate and I had the falafel wrap and we shared the grape leaves. Everything was delicious and food portions were good. It's also very reasonably priced compared to other establishments around the area. This place is a must go!

I visited la Caravane hoping for a tasty, quick meal, and I was NOT disappointed!…read more After consulting with my server I went with a traditional plate that featured a mix of warm and cold mezes; to this I added one additional choice from the menu, as I was very hungry. The food was served very quickly, and all the tastes and flavors were outstanding; even the marinated pieces of chicken were tender, flavorful, and juicy :-) While I enjoyed the entire meal, the best of what I tried was the falafel and the kefta. Service was friendly, efficient and quick, and the prices were surprising reasonable for Geneva. Highly recommended!

Excellent kibbeh. The spices in it are wonderful. I also had the traditional and tasted a ravine…read more Recommend all. Falafel was subtlety flavored.

Skip the couscous and you can eat like a king here…read more Much of what will be on your table will be extraordinary. * * * Le Hoggar is a North African restaurant with couscous, tangines, and grilled meats on the menu. The people who work here are amazingly nice. The room is a stunner. Paintings of an oasis in the Sahara on the walls. Beautiful mosque like abstract Arabic design work on the ceilings and the upper echelons of the wall. I stared at those abstract designs all night. My mind flew away on magical carpets. * * * Among the dishes to remember: 1) Amazing house made marinated olives using a special house made aromatic oil. The olives are put on your table on arrival. My first olive led to pure happiness. The owner was happy to show us the oil that is the secret ingredient. (He would also be happy to sell you a bottle.) The bottles come pricey - but the oil is totally worth it. 2) The best baklava I have had in my life. Frankly, most baklava is disappointing stuff ... shredded wheat with honey dumped on it. The owner showed us one of the secrets of his baklava ... An absolutely superior honey. But the real trick is rethinking the consistency of the dish to make the dish overwhelmingly a nut dish with a little bit of phyllo for texture. The nuts made the dish. 3) A very nifty non-alcoholic house fig cocktail. 4) Superlative eggplant and tomato salad. Now 600 million Middle Eastern restaurants make a superlative eggplant and tomato salad. Eggplant and tomato salad is just good. He served me a natural version and then brought some harissa to the table to give the salad extra kick. The dish was wonderful both ways. 5) A tagine with chicken, the wonderful olives referred to above and preserved lemon. The chicken itself was pleasant enough. The olives make everything good. Preserved lemon is as strong an ingredient as lemon pickle is in Indian cooking. It is massively strong and commands extreme respect. It is a perfect foil for a chicken dish with chicken fat. But watch how much lemon you eat at a time. The tagines here are really wet. There is a lot of liquid and not that much solid food in the tagine. But we had more than enough to eat for the night. And the sauce made fine soaking up with the bread that had been brought to the table. 6) An extremely superior orange with cinnamon. Orange with cinnamon is a classic North African and Spanish dessert. The concept is simple. Take an orange. Slice it up. Put cinnamon on it. I have never been to North Africa ... But in Spain what makes the dish click is that Spanish oranges are insanely good. You could put zero on those oranges and have a dessert to die for. Here we are working with French oranges that are not so insanely good. BUT Le Hoggar has some sort of kitchen trick to make these the most cinnamon-y oranges one can possibly imagine. Not that much cinnamon is in powder form on the orange itself. The orange is firm and well textured - so it was not allowed to macerate forever in some sort of cinnamon bath. But something extra and wonderful was done to that orange ... Maybe a brief and carefully considered pass through some very strong cinnamon water. Regardless of how it was made, it was a fascinating dessert. * * * My wife was not all that keen on her couscous. Given the fact that my chicken and the braised vegetables that came with it were just okay ... I could see where a couscous could go flat. * * * But appetizers and desserts here are amazingly good ... Given the kitchen's natural affinity with fruit and with flavoring - My suspicion is that the tagines that have fruit in them Are likely to be absolutely stupendous. They have a couple of those on the menu. And there is grilled meat galore if you want to go that route too. * * * Overall there is a lot to like in this kitchen. And if you want to take the cook's famous kitchen tricks home, They will be happy to sell you their secret ingredients. Frankly, if I lived in Villeurbanne, I would think about that offer very very seriously.

Arabesque is located inside Hôtel President Wilson. I quite like this place. It's rather small and…read moreintimate. The decor is kind of a whimsical theme of Arabian Nights. The food is flavorful. Staff is nice. Love the tea. I'd go back if I'm craving for Lebanese. The price is pretty reasonable IMO for Geneva standards.

Really beautiful restaurant with great service and some of the most delicious food! The staff is…read moreextremely nice. Loved the desserts too, which is surprising because usually we don't enjoy Arabic/middle eastern dessert.

Why is this place so expensive?? It's an OK restaurant in an arguably undesirable part of town…read more Yet we find ourselves here when we want to have lunch "under the sun," as if Saveurs du Liban has some sort of proprietary rights to the sun that we can't get elsewhere. The plat du jour is about CHF19, which usually gets you a generic salad and a passable main dish. The plat du jour on our first visit was two approximately 2 inch ground beef medallions in passable tomato-based sauce and rice, and on our second visit four small meatballs in some sort of passable almond-based sauce and rice. If you haven't noticed, there's a common theme here. Everything is simply "passable," and just slightly too expensive to feel like I've gotten my money's worth. The mezze platter which is usually CHF38 is CHF22 during lunch, which is, again, a "passable" bargain for a "passable" platter. Rather than thinking CHF22 is a great discount, though, I couldn't help wondering why on earth I would normally pay CHF38 for what looked like a plate of food, comprised mostly of dips (such has hummus on yogurt) from a "passable" middle eastern buffet. Oh, and you can smoke hookah in the outside terrace for CHF35. CHF35 for hookah at a mediocre restaurant, in my opinion, is NOT passable.

Oh wow that sucked! I came in because there were so many Arabic customers outside and I assumed…read morethey must know the food is good. I didn't have reception to check the reviews so I saw the rating only after I had ordered. My salad and main course were served at the same time. Only fast food places do that, I assume, since I don't eat fast food. My pita breads were leathery and cold served in a nylon bag. What's the point of the nylon? I asked for warm ones and they brought me another cold leathery batch in another nylon. The hugely overpriced salad was soaked in oil. My "Lebanese sampler" dish was all cold (despite supposedly having some warm bits) and was half hummus type stuff. I had asked if there were greens (or I wouldn't have ordered the salad) and they said no, but yeah there were. I barely ate half I said I wanted a piece of meat and was considering ordering one and they just cut me off that they serve them in 4. Horrible. Couldn't have offered me one. Don't go to this place. Absolute rip off of fast food (as I imagine fast food)