Beirut Restaurant - Halal — Restaurant in Torremolinos

I have eaten Lebanese food all across the world, so in a town where every other restaurant is a tourist trap, I was reassured by the presence of Beirut.

We were a decent-sized party. We ordered our food. It came in a reasonable time, within about 15-20mins. The waiter didn't speak great English or Spanish, so getting basics like the appropriate plates/sauces was confusing and required lots of asking. Not a huge issue, we were all hungry.

The food looked...good!

Then, possibly the most off-putting experience in dining history. The two owners got into a huge fight with a customer. The shouting match stopped the whole neighbourhood. I've never seen such pure range. Grown men, totally lost control. They were screaming in Arabic. It looked like it might turn violent.

It was outside dining, and they were shouting so loud that it made a couple of the kids genuinely scared. Nobody took any notice of the crying children. The men walked away. It really was a scary and intimidating two minutes. The customer had children and an elderly lady in his party.

Regardless of rights and wrongs...the owners angrily marched away, returned a few minutes later, as if nothing had happened!

We were faced with a full table of food. We only didn't get up and leave out of a sense of genuine fear that these men are psychopaths. It put us in a horrible situation.

There were several tables and several children - neither of the men, none of the waiting staff behaved as if anything had happened. It was shocking.

No apology, no acknowledgment. Nobody checked to see if our food was okay. I guess for completeness I should add what the food was like - it was reasonable. The fattoush and tabbouleh were both lovely and fresh, and the pitta was fresh. The houmous wasn't great, which was a surprise. The waiter brought us a tablespoon of chilli sauce and garlic sauce (after asking) for a table of plenty. The falafels were ordinary and didn't taste authentic...though they weren't necessarily bad. The falafel seemed to be rather overpriced, though I suppose at least the meal wasn't terribly expensive overall.

But it was hard to care about the food - I'm glad we got out alive.

We didn't ask any questions, we stuffed our faces and left.

We read the prior reviews about the restaurant not taking card, so we made sure to pay the exact amount in cash.

The waiter seemed surprised to be there, and he seemed surprised at every aspect of our dinner. At least the bill was correct. Though honestly if we had been charged extra, I'd have just paid and left. I wouldn't have argued.

Of note, I saw one of the restaurant owner the next day in his car - he was driving, and using his mobile phone, and made a dangerous overtaking manouevre at speed.

It's a real disappointment to use the word "Beirut" in this - many people will think that all Lebanese restaurant are like this. In my experience, Lebanese restaurants know their food perfectly and there's simply never any hassle. The food is fresh, consistent.

To the owners - you made children cry, and you made adults feel deeply uncomfortable. You have anger issues and you need to seek therapy. You thought the best decision was to shout and scream in front of your customers and potential customers...this is no way to behave.

I'm not expecting a positive response to this, but forgetting the restaurant experience, i hope that some people in your life will explain to you how not to behave. To upset adults is one thing...I can deal with an average falafel...your life is going wrong when you're making kids cry while they're...

After spending the day in Malaga Google directed us to this humble location where we greeted in a variety of languages and very warm and after carefully studying their menu we opted for the House Menù which consisted of:

2 Meat Samousa (Tasty but the Dough is too thick)

2 Cheese Samousa (Tastier but the Dough is too thick)

2 pieces of Falafel (Tasty but regrettably garnished with what should have been a Tahini Sauce but I was not impressed as I couldn't identify)

Hummus (Very tasty and very well made, presented and garnished)

Baba Ghanouge (Regrettably tasteless and need far too many ingredients to perfect)

Labneh (Brilliant and beautifully made, presented and garnished and i sincerely hope it was house made)

Tabulah (was regrettably not very fresh. I tried garnishing with additional Olive Oil but it just didn't work)

Mixed Grill was presented on Pizza Dough beautifully garnished with Onions mixed with Parsley and Sumak. The skewers were a magnificent and very tasty large chunks of both Tender and very well Marinated Grilled Meat & Chicken.

Exceptionally good service and the and very friendly too be it the owner or his hired help.

I wish such restaurants would Adda and advertise to their clients of a certain weekly or monthly Middle Eastern speciality that would attract their customers to come fro afar...

Location is very near coastline Waiter and owner could speak english Food looked good, see pictures Portions could be a bit bigger, especially the servings of rice.. Food tasted ok, no issues afterwards

Two of us ordered quarter of a chicken each, served with rice and small pieces of fried bread. Part of the chicken was cold for both servings. Did let owner know after, he said you should have let us know, we would have warmed it up a bit longer.

Asked owner if they microwave the chicken to reheat, he replied they put it in the oven to reheat.

Whilst there was no bread or hummous, these dishes averaged out at 16 euro (included a drink) / 13 gbp. I think we could have gotten better if we really looked around torremolinos.

Would I visit...