The useful answer to a search for Mediterranean food near me in NoMad is not a list of vaguely nearby restaurants. It is a choice between a polished Lebanese dining room, a hotel-based mezze restaurant, a business-lunch brasserie and a charcoal-fired Levantine room farther west. Start with Ilili at 236 Fifth Ave, where the specific search-worthy dish is an $18 hot mezza of Lebanese crispy Brussels sprouts with grapes, fig jam, walnuts and mint yogurt. Then decide whether you want a tasting menu, an early breakfast, a quick weekday lunch, or a lively dinner built around bread and fire. The four options below make that decision without pretending they are interchangeable.
Ask Karpo in the app which of these Mediterranean restaurants fits your preferred meal time, budget and neighbourhood. You can also ask for the best order at Ilili or a practical route between the NoMad options.
Mediterranean Food Near Me in NoMad: Ilili's Crispy Brussels Sprouts
Ilili is the clearest answer when your search begins in NoMad and you want Lebanese food rather than a generic Mediterranean menu. At 236 Fifth Ave in NoMad/Flatiron, the polished modern restaurant is built around shareable mezza, grilled meats, shawarma and large-format plates. The concrete reason to go is its Lebanese crispy Brussels sprouts, served as an $18 hot mezza with grapes, fig jam, walnuts and mint yogurt. There is also a $34 stuffed-brussels main called Choux de Bruxelles Mahchi. The double-height room is wrapped in a red-cedar grid with glass, mirrors and copper mesh, creating a warm amber lantern effect around the bar-lounge area and elevated dining alcoves.
Ilili serves Monday to Friday from 11:30am to 2:30pm and 5:30pm to 10:00pm, except Monday dinner, which ends at 9:30pm. Saturday service runs 11:30am to 3:15pm and 5:00pm to 10:00pm; Sunday runs 11:30am to 3:15pm and 5:00pm to 9:30pm. The $18 Brussels sprouts make sense as a shared first order, while $15 hummus and the $27 Chicken Taouk Duo give you a fuller route through the menu. If you want more structure, Ilili advertises a Lebanese Journey tasting menu every night alongside its regular à la carte menus.
Zaytinya, NoMad — a second crispy Brussels sprouts order
Zaytinya at 1185 Broadway is the closest stylistic companion to Ilili: a hotel-based, full-service mezze restaurant from José Andrés that spans Turkish, Greek and Lebanese traditions. Its current crispy Brussels Afelia gives you another version of the vegetable, this time with coriander seed, barberries and garlic yogurt. The room is more hotel-facing than Ilili's, with blue and gold Mediterranean cues, exposed wood ceiling beams, woven textile pendant lamps, blue banquettes, patterned flooring and a glass-fronted setting. It covers breakfast, lunch and dinner, so it is useful when your meal does not fit a conventional dinner slot.
Zaytinya opens unusually early for this category. Monday to Friday hours are 6:30am to 10:30pm, Saturday is 7:00am to 11:00pm and Sunday is 7:00am to 10:30pm, with breakfast running 6:30am to 10:30am on weekdays and 7:00am to 11:00am at weekends. The lunch Crispy Brussels Afelia is $15, hummus is $14 and a kebab platter is $60. Choose it when breakfast or a broad all-day schedule matters more than Ilili's specifically Lebanese focus, or when you want to compare two Brussels sprouts dishes within a short walk around Fifth Avenue and Broadway.
Pera Mediterranean Brasserie, Midtown East — a practical business lunch
Pera Mediterranean Brasserie, at 303 Madison Ave in Midtown East, moves the search north and towards a more business-lunch-friendly Eastern Mediterranean format. It is a full-service brasserie centred on meze, lavash and meats cooked over a long open-flame grill, with a room of warm earth tones, walnut walls, zebrawood at the bar, onyx and alabaster panels, ceramic tile and cranberry, forest-green and eggplant accents. A long communal table gives the dining room a more structured office-district feel than Shukette, while the menu still supports sharing. Its published schedule is worth noting: Sunday is listed as private events only, not regular restaurant service.
Pera serves Monday to Friday from 11:45am to 9:30pm and Saturday from 11:45am to 10:00pm. The lunch hummus is $11, the dinner Pera Dip Trio is $19 and signature lamb Adana is $32. That makes it a sensible choice for a weekday meal north of NoMad, especially if you want grilled meat and lavash rather than a vegetable-led order. Parties of six or more receive a 20% suggested gratuity added to the check, another detail to settle before booking. Pick Pera when Madison Avenue is already on your route; it is farther north than Ilili and Zaytinya.
Shukette, Chelsea/Meatpacking District — bread, dips and natural charcoal
Shukette at 230 9th Ave is the livelier and more casual contrast in this group. In Chelsea/Meatpacking District, the Levantine restaurant turns dinner into a rip-and-dip meal built around house-baked breads, seasonal market plates, vegetable-forward small dishes, natural-charcoal grilling and a tahini soft-serve dessert. Its open kitchen is organised around hardwood charcoal grills, with a visible interactive concrete counter and a heated outdoor patio. The room is intentionally loud, communal and market-like, so it suits a group that wants food to move across the table rather than a quiet sequence of composed courses.
Shukette is dinner-only, opening Monday to Saturday from 5:00pm to 11:00pm and Sunday from 4:00pm to 10:00pm. Not Your Average Hummus is $12, Frena bread is $13 and Joojeh Chicken is $28. Reservations are prioritised, but the restaurant holds part of its 23-seat interactive concrete counter for first-come, first-served walk-ins. That makes the counter the sensible fallback if you are nearby after the lunch rush, though the evening schedule means it cannot replace Ilili or Zaytinya for breakfast or lunch. Choose Shukette for fire, bread and a more informal Chelsea setting.
How to choose
If the phrase Mediterranean food near me means you are already in NoMad and have one dish in mind, go to Ilili first: its Lebanese crispy Brussels sprouts are the most direct match, and the $18 hot mezza can lead into hummus, grilled meats or the Lebanese Journey tasting menu. Zaytinya is the better comparison if you want a second Brussels sprouts preparation, a hotel setting or breakfast hours. Pera is the practical northbound option for a weekday lunch, especially when lamb Adana, lavash and open-flame cooking sound more useful than another small-plate dinner. Shukette belongs on the shortlist when you are heading west to Chelsea and want charcoal, bread and counter seating.
Ilili and Zaytinya are roughly a short walk apart around Fifth Avenue and Broadway in NoMad. Pera is farther north at Madison Avenue and 41st Street, while Shukette is west in Chelsea at 9th Avenue and 24th Street. Public transport is the practical choice for all four: street parking is limited, and garages near NoMad, Midtown East and Chelsea can be expensive. Shukette's dinner-only schedule makes it easiest to visit after the lunch rush. Before setting off, check the service window for your chosen restaurant in the Karpo APP, then decide whether to book first or try Shukette's walk-in counter.
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Ask Karpo first
Before leaving, ask Karpo in the app to check which restaurant suits your intended arrival time, whether you need a booking, and how to order around the signature dishes. For a compact NoMad plan, start with Ilili or Zaytinya; choose Pera for a northbound business lunch and Shukette for an evening in Chelsea, then confirm the relevant service window before setting out.
