Meze

Set of small dishes from the Levant, Turkey, Greece and the Balkans, served at the start of a meal to be shared. Meze gathers hummus, baba ganoush, tabbouleh, stuffed vine leaves, olives and cheeses, often with flatbread and arak or ouzo. Convivial and unhurried, it structures the eastern Mediterranean meal and opens the dinners of palace hotels across the Levantine basin.