Baghrir and Maamol

So this week I’m extend­ing my Medi­ter­ranean food know­ledge, cour­tesy of Laz­eeza (Arab­ic for deli­cious) on Dix­on Street in the former Simply Par­is premises (beside Dix­on Street Deli). Turk­ish, Lebanese, Greek and North Afric­an offer­ings, to name but a few.

The cab­in­et food was edu­ca­tion­al and the brunch menu offered a few dif­fer­ent twists (bri­oche french toast with bacon, red pep­pers and fresh moz­zarella; baghrir – see below; span­ish omelette with diced cho­ri­zo, potato , cap­sic­um and onion filling) as well as sev­er­al tra­di­tion­al kiwi options.

Baghrir are North Afric­an yeast leavened (lightly spongy) semo­lina pan­cakes with orange blos­som honey but­ter (a well bal­anced syr­up not too but­tery, not too blos­somy and not too sickly sweet), which got the thumbs up.

The savoury French toast with moz­zarella and roas­ted sweet cap­sic­um on top was judged ‘not bad’, a def­in­ite accol­ade from him of little effus­ive­ness.

And Maamol (yep spelt that way at Laz­eeza) are stuffed short­bread.  So a date one and wal­nut one accom­pan­ied us home for dessert (I did share, hon­est!).

The décor led me to think Greek Island (blue and white with island pic­tures), the detail­ing on the water bottles was suit­ably elab­or­ate and the staff were friendly and will­ing.

These guys are doing $13 mains Mondays to Fri­days, so you should­n’t go far wrong at that price for sampling some­thing non-kiwi.  Even at the full menu prices, most dishes seem to be pretty good value.

I shall def­in­itely be going back to explore that cab­in­et fur­ther some­time (maybe after an early morn­ing walk to jus­ti­fy the sug­ary deli­cious­ness….)