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14.5/20

Bayti

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Mahalabia milk pudding.
1 / 5Mahalabia milk pudding.Jennifer Soo
The 12-hour lamb shoulder.
2 / 5The 12-hour lamb shoulder. Jennifer Soo
Mezze including eggplant fatteh, fatoush, hommus, kingfish and kofta.
3 / 5Mezze including eggplant fatteh, fatoush, hommus, kingfish and kofta.Jennifer Soo
The dining room.
4 / 5The dining room. Jennifer Soo
The large venue includes semi-private and private dining rooms.
5 / 5The large venue includes semi-private and private dining rooms. Jennifer Soo
14.5/20

Bayti

Lebanese$$

Set menu delivered wedding banquet-style, with live music.

Eating at Bayti is like attending a wedding. The only decisions you need to make are what to drink and whether to dance.

It starts with an onslaught of mezze – many upgrades on typical offerings – such as zaatar-crusted whole spatchcock, and hummus topped with charred cubes of wagyu and roasted cashews.

If the night stopped there, you’d already go home satisfied, but then – unless, regrettably, you booked for a dinner Tuesday to Thursday – the entertainment starts. It could be a T-shirted singer that didn’t miss arm day, or a belly dancer who shimmies to every corner of the room. Either way, it’s loud, interactive and fun – inescapably so.

A pause comes only so you can face down the heft of a lamb shoulder so tender the bone slips straight out. When the music returns, it comes with a dessert course so sweet and generous, you’ll regret not having danced more.

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