Beit Elia is a Lebanese restaurant on Mecca Street in Amman,
Beit Elia Restaurant serving breakfast, hot and cold mezze, oven-baked dishes, charcoal grills and Lebanese sweets. Its menu brings familiar Lebanese favourites together with distinctive combinations, including hummus with pesto and halloumi, maftoul tabbouleh with fruit, and savoury halloumi knafeh.
The restaurant’s concept draws on the atmosphere of a Lebanese home, with stone, a garden, bread from the house oven and cooking over fire. Chef Joe Barza contributed to developing the menu, pairing traditional Lebanese recipes with a contemporary approach.
Lebanese Breakfast and Manakish
Beit Elia’s breakfast selection gives visitors several ways to start the day, from individual plates to a shared Lebanese spread. Options include eggs with zaatar, awarma, sujuk or makanek, alongside shakshouka, grilled halloumi, labneh with makdous and shanklish with tomato.
For breakfast together, Elia’s Tabliyeh is offered for two or four people. The spread combines eggs, tomato qalayeh, falafel, labneh with makdous, hummus, foul, potato-and-egg mfarakeh, vegetables, cheese and zaatar manakish, with tea.
The oven section also includes zaatar with labneh, tomato and keshek, kafta with cheese, and lahm bi ajin. This makes breakfast a substantial part of the restaurant’s offering, rather than a small addition to its lunch and dinner menu.
Lebanese Mezze with Familiar and Contemporary Flavours
For diners looking for Lebanese food in Amman, the mezze selection is a useful starting point. Classic hummus sits alongside Hummus Beiruti, hummus topped with beef shawarma, and a version combining basil pesto, tomato and grilled halloumi.
Other cold plates include mutabbal, muhammara, vine leaves, labneh with makdous and bamyeh bi zeit. The beetroot mutabbal combines roasted beetroot with tahini, feta, coriander and orange, offering a different flavour profile from the traditional eggplant preparation.
Salads include tabbouleh and fattoush, while Tabboulet Maftoul Beit Elia brings together maftoul, parsley, mint and cabbage with green apple, kiwi and pomegranate molasses.
Hot mezze range from batata harra and cheese rakakat to meat sambousek and several kibbeh preparations. Fried kibbeh, kibbeh with mint labneh and kibbet sajjyeh provide different ways to explore this staple. Seafood choices include osmaliyeh-wrapped shrimp, Provençal shrimp and calamari with tomato.
For a shared meal, choose a mixture of cold dips, a salad and hot plates before deciding whether to add grilled dishes.
Charcoal Grills and Clay Pot Dishes
Beit Elia’s charcoal section includes mixed grill, beef chekaf, kabab, shish tawook, herb-marinated chicken tawook and rosemary lamb cutlets. Fish tawook uses hammour cubes, while arayes kafta combines meat, mozzarella and garlic sauce inside grilled bread.
Beyond the grill, the menu includes beef, chicken and fish shawarma platters, as well as harra samkeh.
The fakharat, or clay-pot dishes, offer another direction for the meal. Choices include chicken liver with pomegranate molasses, beef ras asfour with mushrooms, and chicken ras asfour in a basil cream sauce. These are worth considering when you want something different from a conventional mixed-grill order.
Lebanese Sweets and Drinks
Dessert options include halawet el jeben, smooth and coarse knafeh, othmallyeh and baklava. A mixed platter of dessert shots brings together muhallabieh, chocolate mousse, rice pudding, Layali Lubnan and karawiya for sharing.
The drinks menu includes Turkish coffee prepared on sand, Arabic tea on charcoal, fresh juices, lemon mint and laban ayran. A separate shisha menu is also published.
Visiting Beit Elia in Amman
Beit Elia’s menu accommodates different dining plans: a shared breakfast, a mezze-led lunch or a dinner built around charcoal grills and sweets. Browse the current menu before visiting and contact the restaurant to confirm table availability, serving times and arrangements for larger groups.
For allergies or dietary requirements, ask the team about ingredients and preparation. Some dishes contain dairy, sesame, nuts or wheat, so a dish name alone should not be used to determine suitability.
Menu and restaurant information checked on 1 October 2026.
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