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….)