Phone: (02) 9708 2219
Fax: (02) 9708 3223
Opening hours: Mon-Sat: 10am -12am Sun: 10am - 10pm
OK - try to take the name of this restaurant seriously for a minute. It is a casual dining, semi-fast food charcoal chicken shop - with a twist. The twist is that the Lebanese like to eat their chicken with flat pieces of Lebanese bread, pickles and the famous HABIB's garlic sauce.
For reference purposes I have photographed my takeaway meal - clockwise from left: habibs charcoal chicken, pepsi, lebanese bread, tabouli, french fries and in the centre - 2 puny containers of garlic sauce. If you eat it instore you will get pickles - purple ones and gherkins which are on the salty side.
How to eat Lebanese Chicken (my bro's Leb friend taught him like this):Step 1: Peel slice of Lebansese bread in half, and then half again. Use this piece of bread to pull the meat off chicken.
Step 2: Roll up your chicken-wrapped-in-bread and dip in garlic sauce.
You might/might not see people doing this already if you eat-in. Alternatively, you could be a snob and use knife and fork and eat all your bits separately - but try all combinations as you will find it saves effort using your hands. Try putting fries in your "roll", tabouli, hommus (separate order) and dipping your fries in garlic sauce.
Garlic sauce has quite a pungent smell, is milky in colour - but the flavour is quite complementary to the harshness of the charcoal chicken. The only warning I have for you is that should you wish to take a serving home, don't eat it the next day because the garlic sauce will taste completely different (it needs to be fresh).
The other heads up I'll also give you is, garlic sauce is great if you fight vampires for a living, but if you wanted to be in the presence of another human being, also better to carry with you at least 2 packets of gum to chew because you will have a lingering garlic sauce aftertaste in your mouth for the next 24 hours.
