Tun Lahmajo, a restaurant in Burbank, is famous for its lahmajo, a thin flatbread topped with a seasoned beef and tomato paste mixture. This dish, embraced by the local Armenian community, is consistently excellent and comes straight from the oven, served crisp and bendy. The restaurant’s menu has gradually expanded, offering both comforting traditional foods and insight into the rich history of the cuisine. Customers frequently enjoy the lahmajo with a squirt of lemon to enhance the taste, complementing the already popular offerings within the vibrant local culture.
The primary draw at Tun Lahmajo, a restaurant in Burbank lined with grainy woods to resemble a summer cabin, is right there in the name. A mottled, golden-edged lahmajo lands on nearly every table - or maybe three or four of them, for every person in a group.
In Levantine Arabic, the dish is known as lahm bi ajeen: literally, 'meat with dough.' Armenians shortened the phrase and adapted the flatbread as their own.
Always, a server rushes them straight from the oven, when they're at once crisp and bendy, on plates where the crusty circumference hangs just over the rim.
The signature at Tun Lahmajo, consistent and excellent, has already been embraced by the Armenian community of Los Angeles, the largest diaspora population outside of Armenia.
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