- Convenient city center location.
- Excellent, mainly Middle-Eastern food.
- Sensible prices.
- Helpful personnel.
- Opening times.
- Museum restaurant concentrating on meals eaten along the fabled Silk Road.
- Emphasis is on Lebanese cuisine.
- Helpful personnel or the chef himself will usually assist you in choosing the right meal.
Normally you'll find the chef, a seemingly ever-smiling and slightly rotund character, somewhere near. Near enough to assist you in choosing from his quiet extensive menu featuring some (for West European palates) unusual ingredients in rare combinations. When he describes the dishes he is positively glowing and enthusiastic - which you'll be after the meal as well.
The Silk Road Café has everything - tasty meals, satisfying portions and down-to-earth pricing. Add friendly personnel (that will almost let you forget that this is self-service) and appetizing presentation ... you have a winner here. Miles above the common-and-garden "museum café". And fitting into the general multicultural feeling of the Chester Beatty Library.
If you are not really hungry, stop by for a sweet and maybe an original Arabian coffee - which will kick you into overdrive within seconds. Just mind that this coffee needs to settle first ...
Negatives? Well, this is self-service and not your classical destination to have a leisurely meal with friends and family. And the opening times are restricted.
