This all-day café in Covent Garden is a great place to stop for brunch, lunch, or a sweet treat.

Chameleon is a high-energy restaurant near Regent’s Park with a lovely garden.

A Lebanese bakery on Uxbridge Road serving up some excellent manakeesh.

A lively Lebanese restaurant and open-air shisha café in Park Royal.

Bubala is a restaurant in Spitalfields with an all-vegetarian Middle Eastern menu that tastes as good as it reads, and even better than it looks.

Persepolis is a BYOB deli-cum-café in Peckham serving excellent Persian meze at fantastic prices.

The ten person counter at Berenjak, a corridor-like Iranian kebab and mazeh restaurant in Soho, makes it the perfect spot if you’re dining solo.

Rovi is a restaurant for the future. It serves excellent middle-eastern inspired sharing plates in a beautiful room in Fitzrovia.

Yalla Yalla in Fitzrovia is all about Lebanese food that’s perfect for sharing.

The Good Egg is an all-day cafe in Soho serving middle eastern inspired dishes.

Yalla Yalla is a Beirut street food spot in Soho that has something for everyone, and is perfect for lunch or dinner with a group of friends.

Le Bab is a kebab spot on Kingsley Court in Soho, and one of Soho's best casual and cost-effective daytime options.

Abd El Wahab is a highly polished and slightly bland spot in Belgravia serving decent Lebanese food.

Chamisse is a Lebanese restaurant serving generous mezze on the Farringdon/Bloomsbury borders.

There are restaurants on the canal, and then there’s Dock Kitchen in Kensal. Great Mediterranean food, and a terrace to sit outside when it’s warm.

This Middle Eastern supermarket, one of the best food shops in the area, has a café where you can eat an inexpensive lunch of wraps or mixed meze.