Appricio · Lebanon

What to do in Beirut, right now.

Beirut is battered and glorious and eats like nowhere else. Appricio skips the guidebook clichés and points you to the one meze table, the one rooftop, the neighbourhood worth your evening.

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Beirut, Lebanon
The short list

What Appricio would tell you to do in Beirut

Neighborhood

Beirut

The city itself — scarred, rebuilt, and still arguing about what it wants to be.

Park · Bayrut

Corniche El Manara

The Corniche is Beirut's exhale — the long seafront promenade where fishermen cast lines at dawn, old men play backgammon on benches, and the whole city seems to decompress in the evening light.

Restaurant · Gemmayzeh

Le Chef

A family-run lunch counter open since 1967 on Rue Gouraud — Charbel bellows a welcome and recites the day's specials (moujadara, kebbe, stuffed mutton) off the top of his head; no printed menu, no…

Restaurant · Saifi

Beihouse

Landed the Highest New Entry Award at MENA's 50 Best 2026 and ranked #5 overall — a sprawling, avant-garde Lebanese cultural dining space that critics call 'a microcosm of Beirut'.

Shop · Gemmayze

Aaliya's Books

A literary bar-café and independent bookshop named after a character in a Rabih Alameddine novel, known for Lebanese and Arabic literature in translation, weekly events, and Friday-night jazz — a…

Shop · Hamra

Halabi Bookshop

A family-run trilingual bookshop launched in a grocery store in 1958, stocking rare, out-of-print and second-hand books in Arabic, French and English alongside vintage posters and typewriters — one…

Beirut, decided in 30 seconds.

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