Abla’s, Carlton

Started by Abla Amad back in 1979, her family recipes help ensure an experience of authenticity and warmth. Still strong after over 35 years, Abla’s has become a Melbourne institution for homely and traditional Lebanese food. We visit in a group and have to take the banquet menu. It kicks off with plates of mixed dips. All the favourites grace the table, and the labnee, hummous and baba ghannouj is greedily scooped up with torn pieces of pita. ...