Where Every Meal Starts
Hummus, and Why Ours Comes to You Free
Chickpeas, tahini, garlic, lemon and olive oil. Four ingredients and nowhere to hide. We bring it to your table before you have ordered anything.
Chickpeas, tahini, garlic, lemon and olive oil. Four ingredients and nowhere to hide. We bring it to your table before you have ordered anything.
Sit down at Mirage and hummus arrives with warm bread before you have decided what to order. No charge, no catch, no minimum. It has been that way since 1998.
It is not a marketing gimmick. It is how people eat in the places our recipes come from - you feed the guest first, and the ordering happens afterwards.
Creamy chickpea dip blended with tahini, garlic and olive oil. Served with warm pita bread for dipping. The full order, for the table.
Your choice of beef, chicken or gyro shawarma layered over creamy hummus, with a choice of fresh salad. A meal, not a starter.
The smoky sibling: fire-grilled eggplant mashed with tahini, lemon and olive oil. Order both and alternate.
Hummus, baba ghanouj, stuffed grape leaves, falafel and Jerusalem salad. The way to start a meal with four people.
Supermarket hummus is engineered for shelf life. It is thick because it has to survive three weeks, and it tastes of preservative and not much garlic.
Ours is blended to be loose enough to pool when you spoon it, with enough tahini to give it body and enough lemon to keep it from sitting heavy. The olive oil goes on at the end, not in the blender. Then it goes out with bread that is actually warm.
It is vegetarian, it is halal like the rest of our kitchen, and it is the single dish our regulars mention most in reviews.
4100 Preston Hwy, Louisville, KY 40213. Free parking at the door, a dining room and an outdoor patio. Open Monday to Saturday 11am to 8:30pm and Sunday 11am to 7pm.
Call (502) 363-7788 for pickup, or ask about hummus and mezze trays for catering - it is the first thing most people put on an order.
The complimentary hummus is for people who eat with us. Bring someone who has never tried Mediterranean food.
4100 Preston Hwy, Louisville, KY 40213 • Mon–Sat 11am–8:30pm, Sun 11am–7pm