Mezza Grill

9.3 Highly Recommended

Food  10      Ambience  8      Service  10      Value  9     

Love lebanese food, found prices competitive to other lebanese restaurants. took me a while to try this place but so happy I did. Staff are energetic and very attentive, chef comes out to talk to customers. Food is amazing, almost fusion lebanese. Open clean kitchen which is great! Highly recommend, especially to have a birthday.

Oct 05, 2011 

6.8 Recommended

Food  7      Ambience  6      Service  7      Value  7     

Best damn hommous I have ever had my whole life. Also had falafels, lamb kafta's, grilled potatoes, and grilled chicken. It was all very good! Belly dancer was amazing too, great entertainment. There were four of us and worked out to be about 25/head. Definitely will be back.

Sep 23, 2011 

7.5 Recommended

Food  8      Ambience  7      Service  7      Value  8     

Went to the Mezza Grill for dinner last night had wonderful time. The staff are also wonderful and attentive and its a really nice restaurant very cosy, the food was amazing!. We highly recommend it!

Jul 14, 2011 

8.5 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  8      Service  9      Value  8     

We were very surprised to find this very good restaurant in the quiet area of Mona Vale. The music is amazing and the food is very very good. I decided to organize my birthday party in this restaurant. They have 2 other function rooms. It was very good party except that the dancer did a very quick show, about 5 minutes and didn't come back.

Oct 24, 2010 

4.8 Average

Food  7      Ambience  5      Service  5      Value  2     

Thrilled when this placed 1st opened, fresh modern alternate food and well priced, we were regulars! Sadly, something has gone terribly wrong. Removed BYO, charging overly inflated prices and calling themselves the best lebanese restaurant on the northern beaches, when there's no competition is a bit rich! All for supporting small local business, but their attempt to re-position has failed miserably. Far superior and better valued eateries abound.

Sep 07, 2010 

10 Highly Recommended

Food  10      Ambience  10      Service  10      Value  10     

I have bee to Mezze Grill many times and love it. Lebanese food is by far my favourite cuisine, and have been to many restaurants and this is definitely the freshest food with the best value! The belly dancer and option to hire sheesha really adds to the restaurants ambience. The staff are also wonderful and very attentive.

Aug 18, 2010 

5.3 Average

Food  7      Ambience  6      Service  5      Value  3     

There were a couple of things I found really wrong with this place that will make me Never go back. Firstly we wanted to order a cocktail each to start the night. The waitress recommended ordering a cocktail jug as you could get 4-5 drinks out of it, we only got 2.5, no joke the rest was mint leaves and ice and for $40 we weren't impressed.

Then theres the rest of the extremely over priced menu. How can some dips, bread and 6 kebabs possibly be worth $70?. Then theres the belly dancer and hideous techno music that comes out of nowhere so bloody loud and the staff yelling out and clapping, never again.

Aug 16, 2010 

9 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  9      Service  9      Value  9     

We are regulars and we absolulely love the food! Staff are very friendly and we highly recommend it! They also have function rooms as well. Their sheisha room is my favourite! Very relaxing when eating in there.

Aug 13, 2010 

4.8 Average

Food  6      Ambience  5      Service  7      Value  1     

I agree with previous reviews, for what you get this restaurant is very pricey. The "cheap"wine was nearly undrinkable.

Aug 06, 2010 

1 Not Recommended

Food  1      Ambience  1      Service  1      Value  1     

Extremely unhappy regular will not be returning!

I do not rate myself as a food snob, however, in my professional life I am exposed to many good eateries, caterers and venues and I find reviews a valuable tool when making my dining choices. I believe that more of the public should write an honest review on web-sites such as Eatability. Restaurant competition is fierce, therefore, restaurants need to be made aware when a patron has had a terrible experience.

At Mezza Grill the food is ok, however, on our recent visit we were bitterly disappointed at the hefty increase in prices and no longer having BYO. The cheapest bottle of wine was $25 and was nothing more than a cheap and nasty $2 clean skin with a Mezza Grill label on it. If this was meant to impress then it fell way short of the mark, and even more offensive was the waiters dumbfounded expression when we asked him if he was going to pour the wine, surely this is not too much to expect when we purchased the wine from the wine list, instead we were made to feel as though we had done something wrong, go figure!

Further, it’s extremely arrogant giving themselves the kudos of being “The Best Lebanese Restaurant on the Northern Beaches” given there is no other Lebanese Restaurant on the Northern Beaches with which to compare them to! They need to come down a few pegs and see themselves for what they are, a small Lebanese restaurant on the corner of a laneway in Mona Vale.

The location is not at all inviting, the inside is cramped and noisy, if you are seated outside alongside the laneway you are exposed to car fumes, pedestrians walk through between the tables and you are subjected to cigarette smoke from the smokers huddled outside the TAB which is next door.

Mezza Grill you aren’t a fine dining establishment, serving your food on a fancy plate and a few minor renovations are not worthy of your over inflated prices. If you aspire to be fine dining then you definitely need to lift your game and make the changes to match the hefty prices. To be honest I was insulted to be charged $45 a head for a few dips and bread with a few pieces of meat on a stick and unceremoniously thrust a cheap bottle of wine that I had paid $25 for.

I won’t be back, my hard earned money will be much better spent at one of the many good restaurants along the Northern Beaches strip.

Jun 16, 2010