If you’re going to eat at A La Beirut, you have to close your eyes and take a bite. This is according to owner Vartan Mouradian, who explains that it’s the only way to taste the love infused into their family restaurant's take on Lebanese street food.
Against the advice of their local friends and family, the Mouradians have brought their hand-pressed sandwiches and wraps to this desolate corner strip mall in the shadows of the larger Eagle Rock Plaza, a vestigial remnant of our country's peak-mall-mania past.
What was a forgotten corner of Eagle Rock is now home to a loving Lebanese-Armenian family, their contagious smiles, and their delectable sandwiches.