Every mediterranean spot we vouch for, across every town we cover. Cross a town line for the good ones. That's the whole point.
Gyros and souvlaki share the laminated menu with PA Dutch comfort plates, the only-out-here combination that's made this S. Main Street spot a local staple. Omelets come made to order and the portions assume you skipped lunch.
Mediterranean plates from the family behind KC Prime Steakhouse. The first Friday of every month brings live music, 6 to 9.
Home-style Lebanese cooking in the Lincoln Court shopping center, all halal meat and a rotating list of everyday specials. Closed Sundays and Mondays, so make it a weekday.
Mediterranean plates on Skippack Pike, from hummus to grilled kebabs. A change of pace from the Italian spots that line the rest of the strip.
Greek-leaning comfort food a block off the Delaware Canal in downtown Yardley, where gyros and pita sandwiches sit next to burgers and a long list of wing sauces. It's BYOB, so bring your own six-pack and angle for a table with a canal view.
Damascus-style Middle Eastern grill on North Pottstown Pike. Shawarma, charcoal kebabs, and a mezze spread worth ordering wide.
Mediterranean and Italian cooking on Lancaster Ave, with Albanian-inspired plates, house-made pasta and grilled seafood. BYOB, and the state store sits two doors down. Dinner only, Tuesday through Saturday.
A Greek and Mediterranean spot on East 1st Avenue, gyros and grilled plates for takeout or a quick sit-down. Fast, filling, and unfussy.
Greek and Mediterranean cooking on Keswick Avenue, a sit-down dinner house that takes reservations by phone and keeps a separate takeout menu. Elia is Greek for olive tree.
A longtime counter spot on Haverford Ave doing Greek plates, hoagies, and pizza. Order a gyro and eat it on the walk home.
Mediterranean with coastal leanings on Baltimore Pike — handmade pastas and fresh seafood drawn from Italy, France, and the wider Mediterranean. Online reservations cap at five; bigger parties phone for a table.
Mediterranean counter on Greenfield Avenue, where the menu runs from sabich sandwiches and gyro platters to house-made manti and gozleme. They cater too, and say they have been doing it for 14 years.
Mediterranean cooking on West Gay Street, from mezze to grilled mains. A small downtown room made for a slow dinner.
Middle Eastern kitchen on Haverford Avenue in Narberth, named for the pillowy Yemeni flatbread. Runs a busy catering side alongside the dining room.
Mediterranean small plates and tapas on West Gay Street, dim and candlelit. Built for a slow dinner that runs long.
Chef Kosta Karali ran a Greek kitchen in Jersey for 15 years before opening this South Broad Street spot, and it shows in the lemon potatoes and the galaktoboureko he bakes in-house. Come for the lamb gyro at lunch; the room gets a little dressier after dark.
Dinner-only Mediterranean kitchen on East Glenside Avenue from the owner of Dua in Bryn Mawr, drawing on Italy, Greece, Albania and Spain. BYOB, reservations through Resy, and a dress code that rules out hoodies and ball caps.
Greek pita pies with phyllo rolled by hand to paper thinness, then filled. The spanakopita recipe comes from the owner's father, born in the village of Velvendos, Greece. Ordering is online, pickup is round the back at 22 N Bryn Mawr Ave.
Greek cooking on Lancaster Avenue where you bring your own wine. The menu runs the taverna standards, from souvlaki to moussaka.
Mediterranean dinner house on Oxford Valley Road — seafood and steaks, plus homemade pastas that rotate with the season. The wine list runs long, and reservations run through Resy.
Greek taverna on East Gay Street, known for saganaki and grilled octopus. It draws a crowd most nights.
Pizza on South Broad since 1974, with a Mediterranean stretch of the menu that runs to falafel, hummus, and baba ganoush. The burgers are LaFrieda Black Angus, in case pizza loses the table vote.
Mediterranean on Bridge Street — kebabs, mezze, and warm bread that disappears first. The vegetarian half of the table eats as well as the other half.
Halal shawarma, kebabs, and falafel on Market Street, family-run, takeout-friendly, and posting hours as late as 3 a.m. Exactly what you want after the bars let out.
Twenty years into feeding the Unionville side of town from its corner of the Willowdale Town Center, where Routes 82 and 926 cross. Saturday brunch, a bar that stays open through the afternoon lull, and Longwood Gardens a few minutes down the road.
Kosher grill on Montgomery Ave, one of the few on this stretch of the Main Line. Grilled plates and Middle Eastern staples, worth the trip whether you keep kosher or not.
Chef Mona cooks the Levantine food she grew up with in the Golan Heights: hummus, muhammara, maqlubi and stuffed cabbage sold by weight from the case at the Ardmore Farmers Market, plus imported za'atar, sumac and raw tahini to take home.
Traditional Lebanese home cooking on Marchwood Road, with their market next door so you can take home everything you liked off the menu. The house motto is 'Treat Yourself; Make it Yourself' — eat in, then shop your way out.
Mediterranean grill on East Broad doing gyros and falafel plates made to order. One of a handful of kitchens sharing the 116 East Broad address, and the one to hit when lunch shouldn't be a sandwich.
Moroccan cooking on West Lancaster Avenue: lamb shank and goat tajines, chicken pastilla, couscous plates and halal-certified kebabs off the grill. Mint tea comes by the pot.
Greek market and cafe on N Narberth Ave, stacked with imported pantry goods and a counter turning out gyros and spanakopita. Grab lunch or shop for the olive oil and feta you can't find at the Acme.
Modern Mediterranean and halal plates on South Main, in the space that used to be Stephanie's. BYOB, and open past midnight on weekends when State Street has gone quiet.
Philly halal-cart cooking gone brick-and-mortar: platters over yellow basmati rice, with the white and hot sauces made in-house every day. The owners started on the famous food-truck circuit in the city and brought the operation out to Welsh Road.
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