Middle Eastern food
Come eat Middle Eastern food at A Beautiful Mess. Here, the flavours and aromas of Middle Eastern cuisine come together in the heart of Amsterdam, Utrecht and Arnhem. At A Beautiful Mess, we work with people who have fled their homelands, and serve the dishes from their countries of origin. All of our food is 100% halal.
Middle Eastern
At A Beautiful Mess, we work with people who have fled their homelands, and we serve dishes from their homelands. These are mostly Middle Eastern countries such as Syria, Iraq or Lebanon, on which the menu of A Beautiful Mess is thus also based.
Middle Eastern food is mainly based on ingredients that grow in this area. This is why you will often see ingredients like chickpeas and pomegranate often in our dishes. Middle Eastern spices, like za’atar or harissa, are also commonly used. One of our most popular dishes at A Beautiful Mess is our
Mezze
Typical Middle Eastern food found at A Beautiful Mess are mezze. Mezze is not one dish, but a selection of several, small dishes that you share with each other. Hummus is perhaps the most famous mezze, but muhammara and moutabal/baba ganoush are also very popular mezze.
Ideal to eat with mezze is flatbread. We make the flatbread fresh on our saj, an iconic Middle Eastern hot plate. Tear off a piece of the flatbread, and use it to eat the mezze with.
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