Al Amir Restaurant

Garbanzo beans blended with garlic, tahini, and lemon juice. (vegetarian)

Ask whether the pita is made with milk or butter, and whether the white sauce is tahini rather than yoghurt.

Charbroiled eggplant with a smoky flavor, blended with garlic, tahini, and lemon juice. (vegetarian)

Ask what comes with it, and what each part is made with.

Vegetable patties of garbanzo, fava beans, and a blend of Lebanese spices. (vegetarian)

Ask whether the fryer is shared with meat, and if there is egg in the batter.

Sautéed cauliflower, zucchini, and carrots topped with garlic and tahini sauce. (vegetarian)

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Grape leaves filled with tomato, parsley, basmati rice, and chickpeas. Simmered with lemon, olive oil, garlic, and herbs. (vegetarian)

Ask whether it is cooked in butter or a meat stock rather than oil.

Platter of hummus, baba ghannooj, tabooli, grape leaves, and falafel

Ask what is in the baba ghannooj and tabooli, everything else on the list is a plant.

Lebanese salad with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, and parsley. Mixed with lemon juice, olive oil, sumac, garlic, and toasted Lebanese bread

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Lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, and parsley mixed with Al-Amir's special garlic dressing. (vegetarian)

Ask what dressing comes on it, oil and vinegar is the safe swap, and to leave off any cheese.

Lebanese salad with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, and parsley. Mixed with lemon juice, olive oil, sumac, garlic, and toasted Lebanese bread. (vegetarian)

Ask whether the pita is made with milk or butter, and whether the white sauce is tahini rather than yoghurt.

Traditional Lebanese salad of chopped parsley, dry mint, bulgur wheat, and tomato. Mixed with lemon juice and olive oil. (vegetarian)

Ask what dressing comes on it, oil and vinegar is the safe swap, and to leave off any cheese.

Skewer of grilled cauliflower, zucchini, onion, pepper, and tomato. (vegetarian)

Ask whether it is cooked in butter or a meat stock rather than oil.

Sautéed cauliflower, zucchini, and carrots. Topped with Al-Amir's magic garlic and tahini sauce. (vegetarian)

Ask what else goes into it besides what the menu lists.

Hummus, baba ghannooj, warak enab, tabooli, and falafel. Choose one: vegetable shish kabob, warak enab, khudar-wa-riz, or batinjan. (vegetarian)

Ask for the vegan or vegetarian version, the menu says they make one.

Delicate layers of phyllo pastry filled with walnuts and pistachio, moistened with a light syrup and orange blossom

Ask whether it contains butter, milk or egg.

Traditional Lebanese pudding flavored with Lebanese syrup and orange blossom

Ask whether it contains butter, milk or egg.