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Sydney’s roast chicken territories.

El Jannah’s new store redraws Sydney’s ‘Red Rooster Line’

Sydney isn’t just divided by postcodes – it’s also split by charcoal chicken chains. Now, the rapidly expanding Lebanese business, launched in Granville in 1998, has pushed well past the boundary.

  • Erina Starkey
Mixed Business.
14/20

The family-run bar our critic would be stoked to have on his own street

From the fried chicken sandwich on good-on-ya-mum white bread to the puffy salt-and-vinegar potato scallops, Mixed Business Enmore is nostalgia made manifest.

  • Callan Boys
Wood-fired, toum-brushed flatbread with labne soaked in chilli oil.

Isme

A contemporary Lebanese diner with a roaring wood-fire oven.

  • Emily Holgate
Flatbread and lamb are just some of the dishes cooked over the woodfire coals at Isme.

Flame-licked flatbread and HSP bites: Your cheat sheet to a revived Lebanese diner

After closing its cosy Fitzroy restaurant in 2022, Isme is back, occupying a sleek new site in Thornbury and serving a fresh raft of dishes with contemporary flair.

  • Emily Holgate
Yum Yum Bakery owner Najib Haddad with father and founder Toufic Haddad at the new venue in Concord.

It took 35 years for this legendary western Sydney cafe to open a second shop. It was worth the wait

The family-owned brunch spot serves one of the best value brekkies (including wood-fired bread and halloumi) in town.

  • Bianca Hrovat
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Meat is marinated overnight in garlic, lemon and toum (garlic sauce).

Tawooq

Home to authentic, chargrilled Lebanese chicken.

  • Quincy Malesovas
24-hour marinated charcoal chicken with Lebanese pita bread.

Habibi

Wagga’s favourite Lebanese chicken, now in Melbourne.

  • Quincy Malesovas
Ma’amoul.

Smeed

This venue is a finalist for best treats in Good Food’s Essential Sydney Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

Skewer medley with batata bi kizbara and cheese sambousek from Al Aseel in Liverpool.

This restaurant started in western Sydney. Now it’s taking on airline food, stadiums and precincts

The ambitious group began by serving Lebanese food in Greenacre in 2002, but says real estate agents suddenly began calling.

  • Scott Bolles
Georgette Taouk, Najwa Tajjour, Amal Elhani and Randa Fardos at Smeed, the new Lebanese cafe in Belmore.

‘We want to smash stereotypes’: The cooks and chefs transforming Lebanese food in Sydney

From an in-demand Belmore bakery, to pop-ups in Darlinghurst, Lebanese Australian food is rapidly changing.

  • Bianca Hrovat

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