Nour is a great place to go for a long lunch or a celebratory occasion. The menu draws on familiar Lebanese flavours and jazzes them up in a creative way. Plates are designed for sharing, with a range of mezze, grilled and baked choices to peruse.

It’s one of the prettiest spaces I’ve dined at in a long time. The interior has a pastel colour palette and wooden accents, and is filled with sunlight during the day.

The cocktails are beautiful to look at and to drink. The lychee one is perfectly balanced and isn’t too sweet nor too dry.

The Tamuru Passion is my favourite out of all of the cocktails. It has a fruity flavour, with passionfruit and elderflower liqueur and a fun prosecco granita in the middle of a huge ice cube. The Grape Delight is another winner, it’s shaken and poured at the table with a spritz of orange blossom and hints of vanilla.

This dish was a special on the night we dined and we loved it. The sashimi is paired with a vibrant saffron sauce, coriander oil and the finest chopped pickles. I haven’t had a lot of alfonsino before but I really enjoy its stronger flavour and firmer texture compared to salmon. The flavours work really well together.

This draws on all the best bits of a chicken kebab and takes them to another level. We’re told to roll it up and eat with our hands. It’s so good – each bite has spiced, juicy chicken, tangy pickled cabbage and creamy tarator sauce. I’m a big fan of the thin flatbread, which does a great job of holding everything together.

This is a very picturesque dish, and at first glance it’s hard to tell what’s what. The star of the show is a whole wood fired eggplant in a modern play on everyone’s favourite baba ganoush. A bright red Aleppo pepper sauce goes really well with the silky, smoky eggplant, and the zataar nori crisp is great for dipping. Fried, spiced chickpeas and a herb salad add crunch and freshness. Definitely a must-order.

This is another one of my favourite dishes. It’s yet another pretty sight to see – amalgamation of chopped, grilled octopus, roasted capsicum and creamy whipped roe topped with light, crispy shards of fried potato. The octopus is springy and tender; this is a delicious and well thought out dish.

This lamb shoulder is a winner in our books. The slow cooked meat just falls apart and is a great dish for sharing. It comes with mujadara, a Lebanese dish of lentils and rice and caramelised onion and yoghurt. All of that sweet, sticky glaze soaks into the rice and is just yum.

This is an ideal side dish to go with the lamb shoulder because the fresh vibrancy helps cut through the richness of the lamb. I love the different varieties of tomato and colours in this fattoush. The dressing is well-seasoned and spiced. I could happily eat this for days.

The combination of flavours here blows our mind – there’s charred cauliflower, roasted grapes tinged with wine, a smoky, creamy sauce and almond crumb and ras el hanout. It’s so delicious.

I’ve never had anything like this before. After a bit of research I discover Mafroukeh is a semolina-based dessert that’s traditionally topped with a thick clotted cream called ashta. The mafroukeh itself has a sticky texture that’s a cross between a paste and a dough, with a nutty flavour and rubbles of pistachio mixed throughout. It’s topped with a layer of sweet and sour apricot paste and thick, fluffy ashta. It’s an unusual dessert but we love it.

Sweet tooths will love this dessert. The chocolate parfait is rich and has a slightly elastic texture. Salted caramel and crispy honeycomb adds a layer of extra sweetness that’s tempered with burnt tahini. The most surprising part of this dessert is the Iranian figs – they’re tiny, sweet little things that add a nice sweet-savoury zing.

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