Sushi, pasta, and mezza on one Beirut menu

Visitors sometimes ask if an Italian restaurant should also send out California rolls. In Beirut the honest answer is yes, if the kitchen is serious about each station. La Tavola keeps pasta, pizza, sushi, grill, and mezza on the same card because that is how this city actually orders.

How to build the order

Open with hummus, vine leaves, or dynamite shrimp. Put a shared pasta in the middle of the table. Add a sushi roll if someone wants cold fish. Close with grill or pizza so the last plate is hot. Desserts — fondant, fett crepe, chocolate cake — belong after the view has done its work.

The full Sea View menu is on the site as a page Google can read, and as a PDF you can save. Open the menu, then WhatsApp the restaurant if you want a table held.