Since 1987, baking bread the way we always have.

Since 1987, Mona's Cafe has been baking fresh pita bread the traditional Mediterranean way in New Orleans. What started as a small family bakery on Banks Street has continued through generations with the same simple approach — quality ingredients, a hot oven, and care put into every batch.

Nearly forty years later, we're grateful to still be serving the community bread made the way we've always known how — pulled hot from the oven each morning and carried out the door in brown paper bags.

The kitchen still runs out of Banks Street, where an attached grocery stocks the imported staples that make Lebanese home cooking possible: tahini in glass jars, dried mint, jars of olives, bags of bulgur, baklava stacked behind glass.

Zagat-rated and locally loved, we still cook from the same recipe book. The hummus, just as Mona always said, is just chickpeas, tahini, garlic, and lemon — done right.