Restaurant Al Diafah Middle Eastern Cuisine

Situated on the first floor along Jalan Radin Anum is this Middle Eastern restaurant made for grand dinners. It’s an extravagant-looking place – think thick curtains, glossy porcelain and gold furnishings. Get your appetite rolling with the super smooth Hommus (RM10) served with bread for dipping and Sambosa Lamb (RM18). For the main event, dig into the signature Mendy Lamb with Mendy Rice (RM48) that's good for sharing between two. Pair that with the refreshing Taboola salad (RM18) to balance the rich flavours.
Photo by Burppler Ali K

Fav fav fav! Smooth chickpea drizzled with oil and spring onions is so good when mixed together! Big love for the puffy white bread, the perfect vehicle to scoop it all up.

Cold, sour and super refreshing! Such a great salad to have to alongside the might meat dishes. This sees a blend of mint leaves, parsley, tomatoes and olives, with a a dash of lemon juice.

A huge plate of aromatic mendy rice topped with an even bigger piece of lamb – this portion is too generous! The lamb is break-at-the-fork tender and so flavourful, and tastes even better when dipped with the tangy tomato sauce. So good.

I think this is my first time tasting a really satisfying Arabian & Lebanese food in Malaysia. Located at the busy street of Sri Petaling, Al Diafah Restaurant looks fancy and classy from the outside, the restaurant is located at the 2nd floor where you can actually take a lift to go up there. Once you step in to their compound, you’ll feel as if you’re in some Middle Eastern country with all the glossy porcelains, thick curtains…

The restaurant was rather quite empty, so food in here come quite fast. While waiting for my Falafel Sandwich (RM12), they told me that they have free soup to grab. The soup was really good although I couldn’t really tell what soup is that. To me tasted like curry, soupy porridge which they provided wedges of lime to go with. I squeeze some lime to the soup and it gave out the zing that combined very well with the “curry” taste. To be honest, I wouldn’t mind eating that soup whenever I fall sick… hahaha

Back to the Falafel Sandwich, it’s a quite simple looking dish, nothing fancy about it but the taste is definitely amazing! The rolls are packed with deep fried chickpeas with finely chopped salad and tahina sauce, wrapped altogether in pita bread wrap. They serves it with more tahina sauce and fries. To me the rolls are good on its own, but a little kick of chili sauce might make it even better XD It was a satisfyingly filling dish in general :) Price wise it is actually very affordable for this kind of restaurant ambience and service 😁

For the drink, I chose to have Vanilla hot drink (RM10), it sounds fancy in the menu but actually nothing to shout about. It tasted rather like normal vanilla milk to me, except with the dash of cinnamon powder on top.

Airconditioning: Yes
Smoking: No
Good for group: Yes
Parking: Depends on your luck (it’s Sri Petaling… hahaha)
Children friendly: Yes
Payment: Cash & credit card