 Desert Rose Restaurant Restaurant Review: This charming Los Feliz eatery offers sophisticated food at moderate prices and a nice blend of casual elegance. A smattering of Lebanese émigrés, Silver Lake cocktailers and local families make themselves at home on the verdant patio garden, which makes up the greater part of the restaurant, sheltered alternately with market umbrellas and heat lamps, amid blooming roses, fountains and a rather jaw-dropping giant glowing rose sculpture. Inside, crimson Murano lamps lend warmth to a sleek, modern glass-walled room and bar. Owner Ziad Richa draws on his family’s Beirut restaurant experience and recipes to bring refined, upscale Lebanese specialties to the table. Tender stuffed grape leaves are a good foil for the rich, spicy velvet of roasted eggplant soup topped with a tiny falafel, drizzled with lemon-tahini and mint. First-rate beef tenderloin carpaccio offers a rustic Mediterranean tang of capers, Reggiano and wild arugula. Sophisticated mains include a nice lamb duo of rack and crisped braised shank “cake,” and horseradish-herb crusted salmon with pomegranate. But locals flock for the grilled kebabs---tenderloin or chicken---that you can wrap in a thin herbed “Lebanese pizza” with thick homemade hummus. Signature cocktails, a lengthy wine list, organic brunch and an extensive vegan menu deftly broaden its Eastside appeal.
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