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Lebanese Taverna Restaurant – Bethesda

Lebanese Cuisine (Half Off). Three Options Available.

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In a Nutshell

Green-herb sauce enhances grilled lamb sharhat and lemon-cilantro-arak sauce washes over shrimp amid colored glass lanterns

The Fine Print

  • Expires May 1, 2013
  • Limit 2 per person, may buy 1 additional as a gift. Limit 1 per table. Valid only for option purchased. Not valid for OpenTable reservations. Dine-in only. Valid only at Bethesda location. Happy hour option valid only for happy hour menu M-F from 4pm-7pm.
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Dining out can be a great change of atmosphere, especially if you're used to eating your meals hastily in an unguarded meat locker. Have a seat with this Groupon.

Choose Between Three Options

  • $5 for $10 worth of happy hour fare
  • $20 for $40 worth of Lebanese cuisine
  • $35 for $70 worth of Lebanese cuisine for four or more

The menu reads like a fairytale of Lebanese flavor, where a three-green-herb sauce elevates the grilled lamb sharhat ($21), a tomato-cilantro-pine nut sauce casts a spell over salmon harra ($18–$20), and tahini sauce guides chickpea fritters to housemade flatbread for a falafel sandwich ($10).

The happy hour menu is served in the bar and lounge Monday through Friday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., and includes a selection of $5-and-under drinks and small plates, such as falafel with tahini ($3), wine by the glass ($4), and baba ghanoush or hommos (each $5).

Now that the restaurant is open all day, the new, condensed menu features sandwiches, entree salads, and a wide selection of local, craft beers.

Lebanese Taverna Restaurant

In the dead of night in 1976, the Abi-Najm family boarded a cargo ship bringing only what they could carry; an escape from Civil War in Lebanon called for a quick getaway. They traveled across the ocean to safety in Arlington, Virginia, where they were able to open a small restaurant in 1979. To save money, they changed the eatery’s name from “Athenian Taverna” to “Lebanese Taverna” so that they only had to update one word on the eatery’s marquee.

From these modest beginnings grew a series of eateries that today comprises of six restaurants and four quick-service cafés, all still operated by the Abi-Najm clan. One look at the menu explains the success: chicken shawarma, spicy hummus, lamb tartare—all Lebanese staples that helped the restaurant earn a spot on Northern Virginia magazine's list of 25 Iconic Eats. There's even kibbeh, or stuffed meatballs, which blend ground beef, lamb, almonds, and pine nuts into fried spheres suitable for felling miniature bowling pins on top of the table before entrees arrive. The decor is as striking as the cuisine; inside the Bethesda location, light filters through the colored glass lanterns that decorate the dining room.

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Lebanese Taverna Restaurant

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    Bethesda

    7141 Arlington Rd.
    Bethesda, Maryland 20814
    (301) 951-8681
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