Lebanese restaurants in Beirut
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Abdel Wahab el-Inglizi
Set in a nice old Ottoman house, this place is a favourite with locals for its table-bending buffets. It is a great choice if you're hungry for high quality mezze and are a particular fan of hummus, of which there's numerous varieties - it won't leave you much room for dessert.
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Al-Balad
This place offers the tastiest, best-value Lebanese mezze in Downtown, and is especially popular with lunching business people. The spicy red hummus, in particular, is well worth a dip.
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Diwan Sultan Brahim
If you're looking for fine fish, it's hard to beat the freshest catch in tow. Select your own; the red mullet and deep-friend sardines (known as bizri) are house specialities. The excellent mezze are well known in Beirut, and it's a busy place particularly during the weekends, so be sure to book.
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La Tabkha
Trendy Beirut chain serving contemporary versions of traditional French and Lebanese dishes in minimalist surroundings. The daily specials, chalked up on the board, are a great lunchtime option, as is the Lebanese mezze buffet. There's a second, equally yummy, branch on Rue Mahatma Gandhi in Hamra.
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Zaatar w Zeit
This branch is busiest late at night when patrons from the nearby clubs flock here to re-energise over cheap and delicious manaeesh with a multitude of toppings. There is another branch on Rue Bliss that is equally popular, with AUB students there at all hours of the day and night.
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Barbar
The granddaddy of them all, this phenomenally popular chain sells manaeesh, shwarma, pastries, mezze, kebabs, ice cream and fresh juice. Join the hordes of people gobbling their snacks on the street in front, or organise to have food delivered to your hotel or apartment.
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Walimat Wardeh
This simple, stylish place hidden away in Hamra is well worth seeking out. Reasonably priced, with good brunches, Lebanese specialities on a changing chalked-up menu and tango music on Thursday nights, you'll be mingling with an unpretentious, laid-back local crowd.
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Bliss House
This is one of the most popular takeaways in Beirut and is always packed with AUB students grabbing a quick snack. Its three shop fronts offer cheap and filling shwarma, kebabs, fresh juice, and fruit cocktails topped with honey and nuts.
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Mino
This tiny shwarma stand really sells only four things - meat and chicken shwarma in two sizes. But what it does, it does well, and it beats waiting at Bliss House when it's packed with students.
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Kabab-ji
A long-standing branch of the Lebanon-wide chain. It's a little more stylish than most kebab shops and an extremely popular place to sit and sample fresh and delicious kebabs and grills.
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La Plage
A small, cool beach bar with great seafood and typically bronzed and beautiful bodies arranged around the pool, hidden at the eastern end of the Cornice.
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Marrouche
Specialises in very tasty shish tawouq (marinated grilled chicken on skewers) and chicken shwarma.
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Le Chef
A Beirut institution that's a must for its low prices, charismatic head waiter, and great old-world atmosphere. As the Rue Gouraud eating scene develops around it, this daytime 'workers' café' keeps faithfully dishing out huge platefuls of cheap and cheerful Arabic food, with a menu that changes daily and has unusual regional specials thrown in.
If they have it, don't miss the allegedly aphrodisiac moolookhiye (fragrant rice with chicken, lamb and mallow). Vegetarians will also find themselves well catered for, with tasty spinach pâté, soups and melt-in-the-mouth aubergine stew, served with rice.
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