Best Middle Eastern Restaurants in Brickell
3 hand-picked restaurants, critic-reviewed and ranked
Last Updated: February 2026
Our Top Pick
LPM Restaurant & Bar
Wine Spectator 2025 Award of Excellence winner serving refined French Riviera cuisine with ingredients flown in from Mediterranean markets.
Notable Picks
8.4
The Miami outpost of a London-born group that opened here in 2017, LPM channels the French Riviera through a dining room dressed in linens, marble, and Belle Epoque mirrors—plus a terrace that makes business lunches feel like vacations. Executive chef Brian Brumec executes founder Raphael Duntoye's ingredient-obsessed Niçoise menu, with produce flown in from Mediterranean markets and a wine list that earned Wine Spectator's 2025 Best of Award of Excellence. Service runs the gamut from 'best I've ever experienced' to frustratingly slow depending on your server lottery, and the noise level can spike. This is a power-lunch staple for Brickell's finance crowd and a reliable impress-the-client play, though the $35 three-course lunch softens the bill for those watching spend.
Must-Try Dishes:
Escargots de Bourgogne, Loup de Mer Entier, Crevettes Tièdes à l'Huile d'Olive
What Makes it Special: Wine Spectator 2025 Award of Excellence winner serving refined French Riviera cuisine with ingredients flown in from Mediterranean markets.
8.3
Okashah Abdelmonem opened this market-deli hybrid in 1972, and today his daughter Soha works seven days a week baking pita, forming kibbeh, and running the back counter where shawarma and falafel platters come together from scratch. The front aisles overflow with imported spices, loose-leaf teas, and hookah supplies; the back cafeteria serves some of the best beef shawarma in Miami at prices that feel like a time warp. Atmosphere is strictly utilitarian—fluorescent lights, no frills—but that's the point. Regulars who've been coming for 20-plus years don't need ambiance; they need the stuffed grape leaves and a bag of string cheese to take home.
Must-Try Dishes:
Falafel Sandwich, Beef Shawarma Sandwich, Kibbeh
What Makes it Special: Family-owned since 1954 with everything made fresh daily by the same family member who arrives seven days a week to bake pita from scratch.
Worthy Picks
7.9
Dr. Rachid Akiki, a Lebanese-born physician, launched this food truck in 2022 after his grandmother Marie's death—he couldn't attend her funeral due to immigration restrictions, so he bought a $1,000 truck with 700,000 miles and started serving the za'atar man'ouche she used to make him after school in Beirut. The flatbreads come baked fresh on saj, with fillings spanning za'atar, labneh, and muhammara, and the operation now runs 24 hours outside a Brickell parking garage under the Metromover. Recent reviews flag inconsistency from staffing turnover (the business acknowledged hiring problems), and service can feel indifferent. When it's on, the homemade quality shines; when it's off, you're just standing by a truck wondering where your order went.
Must-Try Dishes:
Zaatar Man'ouche, Labneh Zaatar Wrap, Chicken Healthy Bowl
What Makes it Special: Lebanese food truck founded by a doctor to honor his grandmother, specializing in traditional man'ouche flatbreads baked fresh on saj bread.