OCCO Restaurant

OCCO Restaurant is a stylish restaurant-and-lounge that balances a modern dining room with a serious shisha programme, positioned comfortably between a conventional restaurant and a proper late-evening lounge. The interior runs contemporary and considered - dark timber, textured walls, warm pendant lighting, deep lounge seating - and the outdoor terrace is the preferred seat through the cooler months, where much of the shisha service flows. The atmosphere is conversational and composed, pitched for a long, unhurried evening. The kitchen works a broad international menu with Levantine and Mediterranean leanings. Mezze arrive properly layered, the grilled mains cover tawook, kofta, and a selection of steaks and seafood, and pasta and pizza options give the menu the reach expected of a lounge format. Portion sizes are generous and the plating carries genuine care rather than hotel-shortcut presentation. Close with a house dessert selection led by kunafa and chocolate-based plates. Shisha is the property's real reputation. The lemon-mint build is the most recommended signature and arrives smooth, properly balanced, and long-lasting; the wider flavour list runs deep, and the shisha attendants treat the work with the care of a speciality programme rather than as an add-on. The drinks list runs non-alcoholic, with well-constructed mocktails, Turkish coffee, and a considered fresh-juice programme. Service is warm and welcoming across the day. The floor team handles groups, couples, and late-night bookings with the same composure, and the pacing of shisha refreshes and drinks top-ups stays tight even when the terrace is full. OCCO is priced in the mid-to-upper casual bracket, with value holding up particularly well on the combined dinner-and-shisha session rather than on a single-course dinner. For a relaxed Levantine dinner with a genuinely excellent shisha programme, OCCO is one of the more dependable bookings in the neighbourhood. Reservations are worth making for weekend evenings.