I have never had Lebanese Pizza before until last week. I read about a new restaurant on rue Saint Martin, near the Pompidou Museum and was intrigued by a new kind of pizza I had never heard of. I went with Vincent and our friend Lisa Anselmo, author of the best-selling memoir My (Part time) Paris Life, for lunch on a cold, blustery day with temperatures in the 30s Fahrenheit, perfect weather for comfort, and stick to the ribs food.
There’s a high glass counter in front, stacked with rows of some of my favorite Lebanese delicacies including kibbe, falafel, lahme bajin, kefteh,and manouches (Lebanese flatbreads) and I was tempted to order a mezze platter of them, but didn’t want it to get in the way of my pizza. We each ordered the same thing, the Halloumi Zaatar pizza, and we settled in the dining room in the back while we waited. We had sides of baba ganoush and hummus for starters and they were both authentic and delicious, especially the hummus which was laced with sweet pomegranate seeds. We watched the bakers in the open kitchen rolling dough with rolling pins and behind them was a grill and pizza oven with a copper hood. It took less than ten minutes for the pizza to served, and they were humongous. We agreed that we could have just ordered two and it would have been enough. At first, the taste was almost identical to Italian pizza, but once we each ate a few more slices, we could distinguish a different taste because of the intense and flavorful zaatar and the halloumi cheese, which had a different texture than mozzarella. It turns out the pizza was so good, we ate almost all of it, so the three pies didn’t go to waste. The crust was so crispy, I kept dipping it into the baba ganoush and hummus.
Also, at the front counter were cake plates of mouth-watering Lebanese pastries but were too stuffed to indulge. Our bill including a half-bottle of wine was a mere 39€, a super bargain considering the size of the portions and the quality of the food.
Other menu items at Faurn include oven baked lemon chicken, kibbeh, and kefta, galettes with zaatar, labneh, and spicy lamb and chicken kefta, plus baked goods such as Lebanese cookies, babka, cheesecake, and carrot cake, made on the premises.
Faurn
212 Rue Saint-Martin, 75003
https://linktr.ee/faurn_boulangerie
https://eyepreferparistours.com/
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