Why dine here
Levant occupies a narrow Steinway Street dining room in Astoria’s Little Egypt and makes feteer its defining dish. Bakers stretch dough almost translucent, brush it with ghee, repeatedly fold it and bake the round until the exterior bronzes and the interior separates into delicate, chewy layers.
What to expect
Savory feteer can enclose ground beef, sausage or shawarma so rendered juices season the pastry from within. Sweet versions use Nutella, nuts or Biscoff-style spread, turning the same laminated structure into dessert; plain meshaltet allows honey, molasses, tahini or cheese to be added at the table.
Before you go
This current identity corrects the older record’s generic Lebanese grill description. Recent New York Times and Time Out coverage place Levant at 25-64 Steinway Street and identify its Egyptian pastry program as the reason the restaurant stands apart within an already dense Middle Eastern food corridor.
