The menu offers a choice of seafood dishes with an ethnic Lebanese twist. With waiters at your side to explain the intricacies of the menu, you could perhaps begin a meal with delicious hot and cold mezze platter or their signature dish “Batata Harra”; crispy fried cubes of potato tossed in finely chopped coriander and chilies, or alternately their “Shrimp Shakshooke” which is succulent prawns cooked in a spicy tomato and capsicum base. A note to the wise: here when they say spicy, they don’t mean wimpy-spicy, but the take-it-like-a-man-and-grin kind! Or of course, you can ask the waiter to tone it down a little if you want (a strong recommendation from this reviewer).
Sennara offers you a variety and control: choose the fish you want, cooked the way you want, and in the sauce you want. The varieties of fish include salmon, sea bass, and lobster to the usual gang of human- friendly sea creatures. You may decide to grill, fry, steam or even barbeque your fish! You could do what I did, and have sea bass grilled with a creamy garlic-lemon butter sauce, and try some batter fried lady fish to make them crispy or, if you prefer a light dish; you could get your choice of fish steamed to such perfection that it melts in your mouth.
Sticking with the Lebanese theme, Sennara offers desserts such as Halawet Al Jeben and Mafukeh with Achta along with your more conventional desserts. These might sound like a mouthful but informed waiters make choosing desserts a piece of cake. Basically made of white cheese and stuffed with nuts and sugar syrup, these desserts could easily be too much to handle but the bite size portions make them the perfect ending to a satisfying meal. Small, bite size sugary delights just enough to satisfy your sweet tooth craving.
