Le Diwane: one of the better Lebanese restaurants in Genève.

In Genève we find quite a lot of good Lebanese food. For example there is Les saveurs du Liban at la place de navigation in Paquis. But since they renovated  the prices rushed up, while the cuisine didn't change so much. In my opinion it's better to try once le Diwane. You might get scared away by it's old fashioned interior, but we don't eat the interiors and experts should know that we find sometimes the best food in restaurants that lack any form of elegance.

The one time I went to eat at le Diwane I was starving, so my opinion on the food could be blurred by this. Best is to take the mezze,  so you can taste and share together many different plates. If I remember well you can take 6 mezze (cold or hot) for CHF 75,-, which is surely enough for two persons. Also here you can use the asiette genevoise card, which means you get a 50% reduction on the food. The mezze have a quite refined taste and the dough they use for the pastries is very fresh. My favorite plates were the pastries filled with cheese and minced meat and the falafel. The falafel (served with a tahin sauce) were especially a welcome surprise. Being used to the deep fried  tasteless falafel we eat sometimes in the street, this falafel took me by surprise through it's well balanced combination of chickpeas and sesame seed.

Le Diwane, 6 Rue de Zurich, 1201 Genève Tel: 022 732 73 91
Opening times: in winter open from 11.30 -14.00 and 19.00- 23.00, closed Saturday afternoon and Sunday . In summer open every day with non-stop service from 12.00 till 0.00. .