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Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in CITY Magazine. Updated August 2026.
Sinbad's · Park Avenue
A Park Avenue Lebanese restaurant open since 1994, run by Ziad Naoum and his brother Imad, who joined from Lebanon in 1999; CITY Magazine's reader poll has named it a Best Mediterranean runner-up in 2024 and 2025. The kitchen leads with Lebanese cooking, falafel, tabbouleh, hummus, and kabobs. To order: the falafel or a mixed mezze kabob plate.
Cedar · Monroe Avenue
A Monroe Avenue Lebanese kitchen that CITY Magazine covered at its 2016 opening for fresh-baked manakeesh flatbread and pita pockets of shawarma, falafel, and kabob, with a 585 Magazine feature to follow. To order: the manakeesh or a shawarma pita.
Aladdin's Natural Eatery · Monroe Avenue
The Monroe Avenue original of a Rochester natural-food restaurant that CITY Magazine's reader poll counts among the area's Mediterranean and Middle Eastern standbys, winning Best Mediterranean in 2024 and 2025. To order: the falafel and hummus.