Liza

Liza Asseily opened Liza in 2005 as the first Lebanese restaurant in Paris that read like a contemporary Beirut dining room rather than a mezze cliché — bright, designed, modernist and seriously sourced. Twenty years on it is still the city's reference for contemporary Lebanese cooking: kibbeh nayyeh, fattoush with the right pomegranate, lamb seven hours, the Sunday brunch that draws the Levantine diaspora. The adjoining bakery sells the manakish to take home. Istanbullu visitors who know the Beirut scene will read the room immediately; first-timers get a clean orientation to the cuisine.