Pita Gourmet

Pita Gourmet is a Mediterranean restaurant in Cortland built around the cuisine of Lebanon. Lebanese cooking is often held up as a model of the Mediterranean diet, with an abundance of vegetables, fruits, starches and fresh fish and seafood on the table, and a lot of the cooking is simple and lets the ingredients do the talking.

Traditional Lebanese meals lean on poultry more than red meat, and when red meat is on the table it is usually lamb. Garlic and olive oil show up in nearly every dish. The restaurant is featured by Experience Cortland and is a member of the Cortland Area Chamber of Commerce.

What to Know

• Lebanese cooking relies on garlic and olive oil in nearly every meal.
• Poultry is eaten more often than red meat, and lamb is the usual red meat.
• Fruits, vegetables and fresh seafood are the backbone of the cuisine.
• Crown City Rising, the downtown Cortland group, also features the restaurant.