The Gourmet Basket

Our family has been shopping here now across generations and their delicious offerings gave me and my children a love of Lebanese food. You can’t go wrong here. It is a great choice for small nibbles for a party of people who like different foods. The cabbage rolls, eggplant salad, lentils with LOTS of caramelized onions and their small savory pastries are our favorites. Don’t leave without the garlic sauce.

Pride of McLean. This place has the freshest and the most delicious Lebanese food. I am surprised of negativity towards the owner. She is one of the sweetest person out there.

Rude owner! We were looking for a birthday gift for a relative who has allergies to certain ingredients, so I was reading the labels of products we thought he might like to receive. The owner kept starting with a displeased face as if we were messing up with the way she had arranged everything even though I placed everything back exactly the way it was when I found it. She then came up to me when I was looking at baklavas and almost snapped at me, saying she had the same items by the counter and if I wanted to look, I needed to go to the counter. Apparently, even looking at baklava in a glass-covered stand is prohibited. She irritated me so much that we just walked out of the store and I saw her shaking her head in anger, going around the store and “fixing” everything where we were standing. Additionally, the store is called “gourmet basket.” There were no baskets of anything, just regular products like dates, pastries, ordinary groceries. I do not recommend this place. The owner’s behaviour is bizarre and it’s not a gourmet place. It’s a grocery store with a small amount of products.

Absolutely love this place, they have a great selection of some of the harder to find items (and better quality of some of the easier to find items) you need for Mediterranean/Middle Eastern cooking!

Always the best Lebanese catering and deli items! The best in DC metro area. I drive from Baltimore to shop here— so worth it!