Naama brings Lebanese cooking, a deli counter and a butcher's focus on quality meat together on Uxbridge Road in Shepherd's Bush. The setting is relaxed and practical, while the menu reaches beyond a quick takeaway with cold mezze, salads, hot starters, charcoal grilled dishes, wraps and generous platters. Fresh vegetables, aromatic marinades and sauces such as tahini, garlic and chilli give diners enough variety to build anything from a light snack to a filling shared meal.
Cold mezze provide an easy starting point, with smooth houmous, smoky moutabal, lemony vine leaves and tomato cooked moussaka all served in a style suited to sharing. Fattoush adds sumac, crisp Lebanese bread and a sharp lemon dressing, while the Lebanese salad keeps things simple with lettuce, tomato, cucumber and peppers. Hot starters introduce more texture through falafel, kibbeh, grilled halloumi, chicken wings and spicy sujuk sausages.
The charcoal grill is the centre of the more substantial choices. Farrouj meshwi pairs a whole marinated boneless chicken with garlic sauce, homemade chilli and salad or pickles, while the shish meal allows a choice of chicken, lamb or kafta with rice or burghul. Diners can also choose a mixed grill, a larger party grill, seven lamb chops or chicken escalope, making the section flexible for one person or a group.
The jumbo wraps carry the same grill flavours into an easier handheld format, covering chicken shish, lamb shish, kafta, chicken shawarma, sujuk, makanek, halloumi and falafel. Vegetarian and vegan platters combine several mezze and vegetable dishes for diners who want a broad meat free selection rather than a single item. Rice, burghul, chips and simple cold drinks complete a concise menu that is especially well suited to casual lunches, takeaways and unfussy group meals.
Address: 384 Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush, London W12 7LL, United Kingdom