Just over two years old, Bhar is the new icon offering local Lebanese on a steaming hot platter. Small, simple and splendid, Bhar does it fresh.
Lebanese cuisine requires tenderness, vocational forethought and passionate cooking.
From your very first bite, you make up your mind about Bhar’s food. Bhar encourages you to delve deeper into tastes of its zest. Their USP is livid in their fresh feel and flavors.
Bhar's executive chef practices culinary art in Jeddah, with the rest of their commendable chefs reigning from Syria. It is evident in their packaging that their focal is to maximize quality and preserve the novel and authentic taste of their foods to please customers. Bhar incorporates the best local ingredients for their recipes and imports 20 percent from Lebanon for authenticity of Lebanese piquancy, especially their olive oil. Furthermore, the meat they use is local and astonishingly nothing is frozen “to be served later.” Their chefs are always ready to prepare your meal from scratch even salads.
Bhar offers a range of typical cold and hot appetizers depicting fresh flavors you have to discover on your own, such as tabbouleh, fattoush, rocca zaatar salad, hommos, labneh with garlic or zaatar, mohammara and makdous. They also serve hot hommos with meat and pine nuts in a generous serving of all aforementioned items. There is no finesse when it comes to quantity; it is share worthy, but the finesse in quality is evident in flavors of vegetables like juicy red cherry tomatoes and fresh exuberant cooked meat like their shish taouk and kababs.
Grills are offered in a platter, such as their Bhar meal, which includes a salad and soft drink. Other items include grilled beef, soujok, kabab halabi, intabli, kheshkash and orfali — all warmly cooked in light steaming flavors that are well done and leave you feeling good, not greasy. Arayes are tenderly cooked, minced meat baked between enveloping bread, which offers a homemade, unique taste that takes you back home. They also offer lamb chops, grilled chicken and a mixed grill compromising of kababs, meat and shish taouk, aside from their signature grilled chicken wings and quails.
Their packaging and delivery is not only fast and spot-on, but indentation along the paper basket used to deliver these items helps retain arayes and meat items fresh and tender.
Their hot selling delicacies are primarily shish taouk, kabab halabi, tabbouleh, hommos and fattoush. As for sweets, they only have oriental sweets, specifically Lebanese. For drinks, their laban Ayran tops the list among their selection of other generic beverages.
Far from a pretentious and hunky dowry spot in town, Bhar definitely hits the spot. If your emphasis is quality food rich in juices and flavor, then you can’t go wrong with Bhar.
Location: Al Salamah Street and King Abdullah Economic City, Jeddah
Seating capacity: up to 76 people at King Abdullah Economic City. The Al-Salamah branch is for males only and offers 16 seats, mostly convenient for take-out.
Pricing: SR 50 to SR 70 per person
Opening hours: Al-Salamah Street: 11 a.m. to 12 a.m. (weekdays) and 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. (weekends)
King Abdullah Economic City: 12 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
For reservations call: 02-6916674
Mobile Number: 0567856750
