Al Basha is an Egyptian and Middle Eastern restaurant at 48 Knightsbridge in central London. Its location near Hyde Park places regional cooking in one of the capital’s best known dining districts. The restaurant serves a full sit down meal and is open daily, making it useful for both planned dinners and meals during a day in the area.
Mezze is an important part of the menu, bringing together dips, salads, pastries and other small plates that can be shared across the table. Grilled meat, including lamb preparations, provides a substantial centre to the meal. The wider selection draws on flavours found across Egypt and the Middle East rather than limiting diners to a single style of dish.
Sharing several starters before choosing grilled or slow cooked mains gives a group the clearest view of the kitchen’s range. Breads, rice and vegetable dishes help connect the different plates, while desserts offer a traditional finish. Guests with allergies should discuss their needs with staff because sesame, nuts, dairy, gluten and other allergens may appear across mezze and shared preparation.
The dining room suits families, groups and visitors looking for an alternative to European cooking around Knightsbridge. Warm spices, grilled ingredients and the variety of a mezze table define the experience more than elaborate formality. Al Basha is at its best when diners order broadly and allow the meal to unfold through several shared dishes.
Address: 48 Knightsbridge, London SW1X 7JN, England
Al Basha Restaurant Menu
Cold Mezzé
Mixed Mezza Platter
Hot & cold selection of hummus, moutabal, tabbouleh, vine leaves, falafel, kibbe and cheese rakakat.
Baladi Egyptian Salad
Chopped tomatoes, cucumber, parsley and onion in our special Egyptian dressing.
Fattoush
Mixed green salad with tomato and toasted pitta bread, tossed with vinegar, pomegranate sauce and olive oil.
Salad with White Cheese and Olives
Green mixed salad with chopped special feta cheese and lemon juice, extra virgin olive oil dressing.
Beetroot Rocket Salad
Beetroot & wild rocket with extra virgin olive oil, lemon and pomegranate molasses dressing.
Tabbouleh
Chopped parsley, onion and tomato mixed with cracked wheat, lemon juice and olive oil, topped with fresh pomegranate seeds.
Hummus
Puree of chickpeas, sesame sauce, garlic and lemon juice.
Egyptian Tahini
Puree of sesame sauce, garlic and lemon juice with spices.
Baba Ganoush
Puree of roasted or grilled eggplant, tahini, olive oil, lemon juice & garlic.
Stuffed Vine Leaves
Vine leaves filled with parsley, mint, tomato, onion, lemon juice and rice.
Labneh
Strained yoghurt with fresh mint & olive oil drizzle
Yoghurt Cucumber Salad
Yoghurt with diced cucumber and dried mint. (+ Bread)
Al Basha White Cheese & Tomato
Our special Egyptian salty white cheese with chopped tomatoes.
White Cheese with Olives
Egyptian style white cheese mixed with olives and drizzled with Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Soups
Creamy Chicken Soup
Lentil Soup
served with pita croutons
Orzo Pasta Soup
Add shredded chicken +£1.50
Kawaraa Soup
Beef trotters soup (without the bone)
Hot Mezzé
Hummus Awama / Shawarma
Awamah (Lamb) / Chicken Shawarma Hummus topped with fried diced lamb and pine nuts.
Spicy Potato
Diced potatoes fried with garlic, onion, coriander and hot peppers.
Chicken Wings
5 Zesty grilled wings marinated in our special sauce & served with garlic sauce/buffalo sauce
Grilled Halloumi Cheese
Keema
Cooked minced lamb with peas, onion, tomatoes and Indian spices.
Sujok
Lebanese sausages fried with tomato, onion and chili sauce.
Kibbe
Crushed wheat stuffed with minced lamb. Served with special spicy yoghurt sauce
Hot Mezzé Platter
2 Samosas (chicken, meat or veg), 2 Cheese Rakakat, 2 Kibbeh & 2 Falafels. Served with special spicy yoghurt sauce
Egyptian Hot Starters
Foul Mudamas
Fava bean paste with lemon, cumin & olive oil drizzle, cooked the Egyptian way.
Moussaka
Oven-baked aubergine, onion and garlic with tomato sauce.
Iskandarany Liver
Pan fried liver with green chilly pepper, garlic and herbs.
Mombar
Sheep casing (fawaregh) stuffed with a deliciously spiced rice and minced lamb. Served with special spicy yoghurt sauce.
Taamia Falafel Al Basha
A mixture of ground broad beans tossed in spices & green herbs and deep-fried, served with tahini sauce and pickles.
Al Basha Stuffed Falafel
A mixture of ground broad beans tossed in spices & green herbs and deep-fried. Stuffed with special blend of finely-chopped pickles, parsley, and tahini sauce.
Hawawshy Al Basha
Seasoned minced lamb with parsley and onion, oven baked in our homemade Egyptian beledi bread. Served with Tahini Sauce.
Hawawshy Cheese
Hawawshy with added special cheese mix, served with spicy yoghurt sauce.
Makarona Bechamel
Penne pasta with béchamel sauce and minced lamb, oven baked to golden perfection.
Pastries
Cheese Rekakat
Deep-fried filo pastry rolls, filled with mixed cheese.
Samosa
Deep-fried pastry filled with mixed vegetables, lamb or chicken mince and onion. Served with special spicy yoghurt sauce
Spinach Fatayer
Baked small pastry triangles filled with spinach, onion and sumac.
Manaeesh
Baked pastry topped with your choice of:
Halloumi Cheese
Mixed (Halloumi with Zaatar)
Zaatar Thyme
Chapatti & Paratha
ADD EXTRAS + £1.50 (EACH): Keema, Chips, Soft Cheese, Eggs, Halloumi Cheese, Honey, Nutella
Chapatti or Paratha Plain
Egyptian Mains
Egyptian Koshary
Egypt’s national dish – made from rice, lentils and pasta, topped with chickpeas, caramelised onion and zesty tomato sauce. Served with spicy tomato sauce & garlic vinaigrette on the side.
Egyptian Stuffed Vegetables (Mahashy)
Mixed vegetables stuffed with rice, tomato sauce, coriander, dill and spices.
Fattah (Lamb/Kawaraa)
An Egyptian favourite, served as a base of crispy flat-bread, topped with fragrant white rice and lamb meat, covered in a special garlic and vinegar tomato sauce.
Kofta Masry
Egyptian kofta in red sauce served with Egyptian vermicelli rice.
Molokhya (Chicken/Beef/Lamb/Veg)
Finely chopped green leaves (nalta jute) cooked in veg stock and garlic, served with Egyptian rice.
Stuffed Pigeon (Rice)
Egyptian Delicacy: stuffed with fragrant rice & served with pigeon broth soup. “Please ask your waiter for price and availability”
Egyptian Tagines
Okra (Beef/Lamb/Veg)
Okra stew with tomato, onions, coriander and garlic, served with vermicelli rice.
Vine Leaves Tagine (With Boneless Kawaraa)
Stuffed Vine Leaves and Beef trotters cooked in clay tagine.
Oxtail Tagine
Slow cooked oxtail in aromatic mix of onion, peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, chillies & herbs, cooked in a clay pot and served with rice.
Potato Tagine (Beef/Lamb/Veg)
A staple of many Egyptian households, this is a stew of potato cooked in tomato sauce and spices, served with rice.
Kebab Halla Tagine
A stew of beef cubes slow cooked with caramelised onions and special Egyptian spices, served with Egyptian vermicelli rice.
Peas & Carrots Tagine (Beef/Lamb/Veg)
A stew of slow oven-cooked caramelised onions, peas & carrots in special Egyptian spices & red sauce, served with Egyptian vermicelli rice.
Egyptian Pre-Order Specials
Moammar Rice
Typical Egyptian rice tagine oven baked in creamy milk and butter.
Goulash (for 4 people)
Filo Pastry layered with minced meat & oven-baked served with salad
Egyptian Colocasia
Egyptian-style Colocasia stew cooked with fragrant green herbs, served with Egyptian rice.
Charcoal Grilled
Al Bash Royal Grill for 2
A selection of 2 pieces tarb, 2 pieces kafta, 4 pieces shish taouk, 4 pieces lamb shish, 2 lamb back chops, 4 wings, served with bread, rice and chips
Mixed Grill
A selection of kafta, shish taouk, lamb cubes, grilled vegetables, served with rice or chips & dip.
Chicken Shish Taouk
Special marinated chicken thigh cubes served with garlic dip and rice or chips.
Kafta Skewers
Minced lamb with onion and chopped parsley, served with rice or chips and a side dip of tahini.
Lamb Skewers
Marinated lamb cubes, served with rice or chips & dip.
Tarb
Kofta wrapped in a layer of lamb fat and then grilled to perfection, served with rice or chips and a side dip of tahini.
Grilled Baby Chicken
Boneless charcoal grilled marinated baby chicken served with rice or chips and a side of garlic dip
Lamb Chops
Special marinated grilled lamb chops served with choice of rice or chips and tahini sauce.
Shawarma
Chicken Shawarma Plate
Slices of marinated chicken, roasted on a skewer served with chips and garlic dip.
Gulf Region Mains
Magbous (Chicken or Lamb)
Chicken or lamb cooked with mixed spiced rice, served with yoghurt sauce
Harees
Cooked lamb and crushed wheat blended with special spices & drizzled with ghee.
Gulf Fried Chicken
Lightly-dusted fried chicken in special Arabic herbs and spices, served with chips or rice.
Lamb Shank
Lamb shank served on a bed of fragrant rice and a side of five spices gravy sauce.
Lamb Kabsa Bariya
Lamb on the bone, served with mixed spiced rice and yoghurt sauce.
Biryani
A fragrant rice dish cooked with spices and your choice of lamb, chicken or jumbo prawns, topped with caramelised onions
Lamb Shoulder
Roasted lamb shoulder, served with rice (For 2-3 persons)
Gulf Pre-Order Specials
Madrouba Chicken
Cooked chicken and crushed wheat blended with special spices.
Threed
An aromatic traditional stew made with broth, bread, and vegetables.
Shark Jasheed
Emirati shredded shark dish, cooked in aromatic herbs, onion and dried lime, served with white basmati rice.
Maqluba
Layers of rice, lamb/chicken and aubergines, cooked together and then inverted upside-down and topped with roasted nuts.
Whole Lamb Platter
Must be ordered 48hours in advance. Price is subject to availability and may vary depending on weight of the lamb and the season.
Whole Lamb Platter
We serve two types of whole lamb: 1- Red meat mature lamb 2- Hirfy white meat lamb (approx. three months old). Served on a bed of aromatic rice and garnishes. A 3 course whole lamb sharing menu is available upon special request for dine-in and home catering. Please speak to our restaurant staff for further enquiries. Price: Price is subject to availability and may vary depending on weight of the lamb an
Seafood
Fried Calamari
Deep fried battered squid with onion, green chilly, garlic, herbs and lemon juice.
Al Basha Grilled Fish
Traditional Egyptian grilled marinated sea bass in our secret seasoning, served open (sengary) with syadya rice.
Jumbo Shrimp
Grilled or fried shrimps served with white rice and mildly spicy sauce
Syadya Fish
Seasoned sea bass fillet, served with syadya rice and a side of tahini sauce
Hamour Fish
Grouper fish marinated in special spices, served as kabsa, or marak stew with white rice.
Grilled Salmon
Served with white rice, special red sauce & ghee.
Kana’ad Fish
Fragrant katfish marinated in special spices, served fried or marak stew, with white rice.
Safi Samak Fried
Marinated rabbitfish deep-fried served with white rice, special sauce & ghee.
Mixed Seafood Tagine
A clay pot of mixed seafood in a zesty creamy white sauce with dill & herbs, topped with mozzarella cheese & cooked in the oven, served with white rice.
Seafood Platter for 2
10 Fried Calamari, 8 Jumbo Shrimps, 2 Seabass Syadiya Fillets, Mixed Seafood Tagine (White Sauce), served with 1 white rice & 1 Syadiya rice with Egyptian Baladi Salad and Tahini Sauce.
Wraps & Rolls
Chicken Shawarma Wrap
Shish Taouk Wrap
Kafta Wrap
Prawns Wrap
Falafel Wrap
Halloumi Cheese Wrap
Pastrami Roll
Prawns Roll
Alexandrian Liver Roll
Sujok Roll
Albasha Special Pitas
Moussaka & Fries Pita
Falafel Pita
Fava Beans Pita
Egg Pastrami Pita
Tomato Cheese Pita
Sides & Extras
White/Vermicelli Rice
Kabsa Rice
Biryani Rice
French Fries
Bread Basket (2 pieces)
Pickled Aubergines
Mixed Pickles
Tahini Sauce
Date BBQ Sauce
Spicy Yoghurt Sauce
Arabic Ghee
Kids Menu
Chicken Nuggets
Served with fries
Kids Pizza
Tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese & olives. Add Chicken + £3.00
Pasta White Sauce
Add Chicken + £3.00
Pasta Tomato Sauce
Add Chicken + £3.00
Breakfast Mains
Foul Mudamas
Egyptian fava broad beans cooked in olive oil, garlic & lemon juice and topped with tomatoes (can also be made spicy).
Foul with eggs
Egyptian fava broad beans and boiled eggs, with a drizzle of olive oil.
Taamia Falafel
A mixture of ground broad beans tossed in spices and deep-fried, served with tahini sauce.
Al Basha Stuffed Falafel
A mixture of ground broad beans tossed in spices and deep-fried stuffed with special spicy blend of herbs and spices.
Al Basha Baladi Cheese
Al Basha special aged Egyptian salty cheese mixed with chopped tomato, parsley & olive oil.
Kebda Iskandarany
Pan fried liver with green chilly pepper, garlic and spices.
Feteer Meshaltet
2 slices of Egyptian traditional layered flatbread served with bee honey & cream.
Bialyet
Cooked vermicelli with saffron, cardamon and served with optional omelette.
Keema
Cooked minced lamb with peas, onion, chillies, tomatoes and Indian spices.
Labnah
Strained yoghurt.
Dates in cream
Pitted dates served with clotted cream.
Molasses Tahini
Traditional Egyptian sugarcane molasses mixed with Tahini.
Shakshoka
Fried eggs with tomato and onion
Mixed Shakshoka
Fried eggs with tomato and onion (scrambled).
Sujok Egg
served as omelette.
Basterma Egg
served as omelette.
Minced Meat Egg
served as omelette.
Plain Omelette
3 eggs cooked omelette style.
Sunny side up eggs
2 eggs cooked sunny side up.
Eggs Medahrag
2 boiled eggs pan fried in salty ghee.
Breakfast Chapatti & Paratha
ADD EXTRAS + £1.50 (EACH): Keema, Chips, Soft Cheese, Eggs, Halloumi Cheese, Honey, Nutella
Chapatti or Paratha Plain
All Egyptian English Breakfast
Includes free tea or coffee.
All Egyptian English Breakfast
2 sunny side up eggs, foul beans, 2 falafel, halloumi, sujok, chips, roasted tomato & rocket.
Desserts
Om Ali
Egyptian bread pudding with milk cream and topped with nuts
Lokaymat
Traditional deep-fried dough balls soaked in honey and topped with sesame seeds
Creamy Konafa
Traditional oven-baked dessert made with layered konafa string dough, filled with a thick vanilla cream filling and topped with nuts and drizzled generously with sugar syrup.
Basbousa
A traditional oven-baked Egyptian dessert made from semolina, yoghurt, cream & sugar syrup. Topped with nuts and clotted cream.
Muhallabiah
Milk pudding with rose water, mixed nuts and drizzled syrup
Rice Pudding
Creamy mastik flavour rice pudding with cinnamon on top
Qatayif
3 Traditional pancake-like dough pillows, filled with your choice of cheese or mixed nuts, deep-fried and drizzled with syrup. topped with nuts.
Aasida
A traditional dessert made with dates, carrots, flour, sugar, ginger, saffron, cardamom and ghee butter, served warm.
Sago
A traditional sticky pudding made from sugar, cardamom, saffron and rose water.
Fresh Juices
Mint Lemonade / Mango (from concentrate)
Orange / Apple / Carrot / Pineapple
Watermelon / Avocado
Al Basha Mixed Fruit / Pomegranate
Price: Ask waiter for availability
Hibiscus Drink
Soft Drinks
Coke / Coke Zero / 7up / Fanta
Mountain Dew / Ginger Ale / Vimto (Still)
Ayran
Still Water Large
Still Water Small
Sparkling Water Large
Sparkling Water Small
Teas
Loose Black Tea (Koshary)
Loose Tea Fel Khamsina (Egyptian Style)
Green Tea (+ mint optional)
Black Tea (+ mint optional)
Karak Tea (Indian Style)
Sahlab
Milk, cornflower, vanilla, sugar, nuts
Saffron Milk
Red Seeds Drink
Price: Ask waiter for availability
Coffees
Arabic Coffee in large pot
served with dates