Photo Gallery: Far From the Lebanese Crowd at Mantee
Need a visual aid for your print edition? Jonathan Gold visits Mantee Café in Studio City ("Mantee isn't where you come for a falafel plate or roasted chicken; it's where you go to watch a stunningly beautiful waitress set a plate of sausage aflame"). Click through for Anne Fishbein's spectacular photos and read more in Gold's Counter Intelligence, "Far From the Lebanese Crowd: Mantee, via Beirut, on Ventura Boulevard."

Anne Fishbein labneh at Mantee Café

Anne Fishbein muhammara at Mantee Café

Anne Fishbein flaming soujouk at Mantee Café

Anne Fishbein from left to right, Gaston Gallo (line cook), Rego Fernandez (assistant chef), Jonathan Darakjian (chef/owner) at Mantee Café

Anne Fishbein za'atar for dipping at Mantee Café

Anne Fishbein hummus with pine nuts at Mantee Café

































