Those clever connoisseurs at Cleo have created a simple and flavorful menu with a convivial, shared plates ethos. The menu typically celebrates flavors and cultures from all around the Mediterranean from destinations like Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, Morocco, and the Levant.
While Middle Eastern specialties are the focus of their extensive menu, for the new season, Cleo is bringing to the table an exotic variety of delights including Hummus with Meatballs, Seafood Paella and Grilled Salmon along with a delectable assortment of desserts including Chocolate Chip Cookies, Churros, Citrus Mousse, and Chocolate Mousse.
The Cleo we know and love so well continues to delight us with their delicious assortment of mezzes served with the best steaming fresh bread that you’ll get hot out of the oven anywhere! As well as their selection of sumptuous appetizers that are always perfect for sharing.
Signature dishes are highlighted in an array of pastas, tagines and seafood dishes accompanied by an inventive list of signature elixirs and home-made desserts offering a feast to share and enjoy unlike any other.
It is truly a destination where friends and families can come together to share a celebration of culinary delights, break bread, savor myriad mocktails, indulge in delectable desserts, and trade stories in the surrounds of interiors as varied and eclectic as the menu.
Entering Cleo’s location at The Forum in The Avenues Mall, you are immediately engulfed in an amalgamation of Mediterranean aesthetics with modern brass chandeliers, deep petrol blue tones with luscious greenery, and richly-textured tiles.
A prominent olive tree sits within a spotlit water feature, all classic marble and modern cut, the juxtaposition a metaphor for the menu. Smartly mismatched crockery placed on rustic wood tabletops gives you the feeling like you’re eating at your great-grandmother’s table, and the layers of fulsome flavor can send you straight back to your childhood, and shared family gatherings around the dining table.
The large open kitchen emits intoxicating aromas of exotic yet familiar flavors, and if gatherings while enjoying flavors like these are not part of your past they can be part of your future as you should really be making plans to enjoy these divine Cleo additions; an authentic Mediterranean experience within a modern context.
If patrons wish to enjoy the new menu items while basking in the luxury of feeling like an in-crowd VIP, then the private room with a window out onto the Forum that’s to the rear of Cleo is perfection. There are so many very different spaces to enjoy within Cleo that you can keep coming back again and again to experience something new, like the updated menu!
Cleo is located in The Forum – The Avenues, serving a variety of lunch and dinner items, and open 7 days a week, from 11:30 am to 11:30 pm. Discover a world of Mediterranean delights by following their account on @CleoMiddleEast. DM for inquiries. Featured image courtesy of Cleo.
