Noura Marceau - Brasserie Libanaise & Salon de Thé — Restaurant in Paris

Is there a cuisine more delicious than Lebanese? Having grown up on a Mediterranean/Lebanese diet, I can safely say I know (I think!) quality when it comes to Lebanese cuisine, and Noura is exceptionally fine. This is its primary location and right across the street from the restaurant is a café and a deli where you can shop for foods, pastries, wines and various Lebanese food products. They also offer catering services, bien sûr. (See my review at Noura Traiteur, a lot less enthusiastic than this review.) I highly recommend their falafel sandwich, one of the best I have eaten in Paris. The hummus and taboulé, two of my favourite foods in le monde, are delicious as well. At the sit-down restaurant, I like the vegetarian assortment dish or the chicken Chiche Taouk with its aioli sauce - and now is a good time to mention that I had to send it backlash time as it was undercooked. The atmosphere is chic yet relaxed. The staff, however, is haughty and not nice. They need to go to the Smile and Be Polite School... Noura is easily recongnisable with its royal purple logo. Even its delivery mini-trucks are purple! Great-quality food and purple? Couldn't ask for more. (Actually, I would like a second helping of...

Disappointing Experience – Poor Service, Cold Food, and Overpriced

This was, unfortunately, our worst experience at a Lebanese restaurant. The only positive aspect was the ambiance.

After placing our order(took 30 mins to just place an order), it took 20 minutes just to receive water, which is far from acceptable. The Mix Grill was cold, the chicken (taouk) was undercooked, and the lamb skewer was burnt. We only complained about the lamb skewer. Things got worse when the waiter took my plate and brought it back unchanged, which is both unprofessional and unsanitary. A different staff member then abruptly dropped a new lamb skewer plate on the table without a word — so disrespectful.

I understand that sometimes things don’t go perfectly in a restaurant — delays can happen, kitchens get busy, and mistakes occur. But service is always within your control, and that’s where this restaurant truly failed. Politeness, attentiveness, and basic professionalism should never be optional.

To add to the disappointment, prices were on the higher side, which made the poor experience feel even...

I was passing by in Paris, craving a Lebanese restaurant before heading back to Beyrouth. I decided to test the famous Noura, to finally be very disappointed ... I ordered the classic dishes that every lebanese restaurant should perfectly master: fattoush salad: it missed half of the original ingredients, it was bland, with bad vegetables, the sauce was absolutely tasteless and seemed completely missing hommos balila: the balila was undercooked, badly seasoned fatayer: it was also undercooked, with a filling badly seasoned as well the rkakat were good, thank god batata harra: badly seasoned, no taste at all, and certainly frozen potatoes that had no texture makanek: poorly cooked, they were hard as a brick, and very badly seasoned I could only find some grains of pomegranate that were absolutely useless In conclusion, it was honestly the worst lebanese restaurant I have ever tried (as a lebanese you can be assured that I have tried some of them), definitely not worth your money and not worth the notoriety of this place ... An absolute disgrace that you should...