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With an increasingly conscious diet and the search for ever new tastes and trends, Levantine cuisine is celebrating a real boom. With lots of vegetables and little meat, the trend originating from the Middle East becomes an eye-catcher in gastronomy and an aromatic-natural taste firework. The variety of spices with intense aromas and bright colors makes Levante rise to a palate feast of the modern age, which also finds an increasingly strong appeal in traditional cuisines.
While many foodies and "star eaters" have been relatively unaware of the Levant food trend, mezze has been on everyone's lips for quite some time as the forerunner of Levant cuisine. Mezze, which actually debuted as an appetizer from the Middle East, is now seeing an increasingly casual approach in upscale restaurants, ranging from appetizers to entrees to main courses. With exotic spices, such as harissa and cumin, Levant dishes from Africa, Arabia and Jewish regions are celebrated and showcased.
Conviviality and hospitality are the hallmarks of Levante cuisine. For restaurateurs in particular, this food trend opens up new hospitality options and new table concepts that offer the gathering of several people a suitable space for the presentation and enjoyment of Levante dishes. Unusual appetizers and small dishes in a variety of small vessels and bowls open up a colourful hustle and bustle on the table. Levante offers a completely new and creative space for presentation and arrangement, which must be staged and played with by restaurateurs and guests alike.
Variety, intense and colorful flavors, and the smallness of Levante require many small bowls, plates and arrangements that set no limits to the creativity of the kitchen and convince with many degrees of freedom in design. Thus falafel or hummus are served in bowls, while shakshuka finds the art of staging on small plates. Lots of small dishes with lots of flavour and even more attention to detail in presentation provide the Levant food trend with a veritable staging script that needs to be delivered and acted out via the catering tableware. With the departure from the classic appetizer game of mezze, the modern trend cuisine is no longer limited, allowing for a very unique touch and creative staging.
Levant Breakfast
Culinary influences from the Middle East inform the young and modern Levantine cuisine. The breakfast - toasted pan bread with labneh, pink quail egg, smoky paprika oil and toasted buckwheat - is shown off to its best advantage on plain brown stoneware plates. The dark color of the dinnerware highlights and allows the fresh and colorful creations of Levante's healthy cuisine to shine. The perfect start to the day!
A harmonious coexistence
Not only the diverse dishes of the Levant intermediate course walk between cultures, but also the tableware chosen to accompany them. A dark grey stoneware plate accommodates the edamame hummus with sprouts and sesame ducca spice, while the mini challah bread finds its home in a contrasting noble white porcelain bowl. The colored glasses pick up on modern and classic accents; the sleek stainless steel cutlery is a neutral companion.
Sweet Levant
Timeless and modern: Filigree white porcelain accompanies this light and airy dessert of filled cadafi pastry roll, white chocolate foam truffle, rose petals, pistachio cream and rose peach gel. A fine hand-blown glass with a retro look gives a home to the accompanying pale pink pomegranate-mint-rose tonic. Two-tone filigree cutlery completes the setting. Noble materials, elegantly arranged and yet staged in a young, relaxed and casual manner. Levantine cuisine at its best!
Levant - true moments of pleasure
Full concentration on the moment of pleasure! A pink roasted lamb carée with colourful olives, olive oil malto and pearls of cous cous gets all the attention in an oval stoneware serving platter with a brown glaze. The deep plate encloses the ingredients and is a surprising alternative to a bowl. The stainless steel cutlery and clear wine glass are also modern and uncomplicated. Simple perfection paired with refined enjoyment.
Mezze
Enjoy together: Many small culinary delicacies are waiting to be eaten in a casual atmosphere. The dishes on which they are served are as varied as the mezze. Prawns in kadaifi dough, beetroot falafel, cod in saffron broth and co. come in deep white plates, dark stoneware dishes or modern black bread baskets. Colourful glasses provide the perfect contrast. What goes together goes together!
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