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If someone asked you which traditional Lebanese food is one of the oldest, what would you say? We’ll give you a hint: it’s brown, with herbs that you can smell from a mile away, round and fried to perfection. If you haven’t guessed yet, you can bet we’re talking about the ever-so-mouthwatering Falafel. Even though

Do you smell that? The smell of fresh flowers blooming, fruits ripening, and the sun finally shining. Our favorite season of the year is finally upon us and we can’t wait for our faces to get their daily dose of vitamin D and our stomachs to be filled with the most delicious fruits of the

Do you smell that? The smell of fresh flowers blooming, fruits ripening, and the sun finally shining. Our favorite season of the year is finally upon us and we can’t wait for our faces to get their daily dose of vitamin D and our stomachs to be filled with the most delicious fruits of the […]

It seems that every week in Beirut there’s a new café or restaurant and every other week, we see some of them close down. It’s not easy to keep up in such a small city and even harder when the clientele is as picky as the Lebanese. Some choose a place based on the vibe,

Don’t walk on a crack or you’ll break your mother’s back. If you break a mirror you get 7 years of bad luck. If a black cat crosses your path you are cursed. If you walk under a ladder, you’ll have bad luck for all eternity and let’s not forget Friday the 13th!   Superstitions are

No matter how old you are, you will never outgrow the little voice in your head that sounds exactly like grandma, telling you to eat your Zaatar. Sworn in the book of all things “Teta”, zaatar apparently can make you into the next Albert Einstein. However, lucky for us, it comes in the form of

WE LOVE OUR MOTHERS SO MUCH, WE’RE NOT SURE JUST ONE DAY TO CELEBRATE HER IS ENOUGH! However, we are embracing this lovely holiday with open arms. The tough question is how do you repay someone that has given you so much? Well the answer is easy- you can’t. The sacrifices and love of a

Hidden culinary gems are commonplace in cities like London or New York. In the vast landscape of streets and avenues, it’s easy to stumble on a restaurant you’ve never heard of and be amazed by its unexpected menu. However, in Beirut, being a city that could probably fit into a neighborhood in any of the world’s

Whether it’s coconut flavored ice cream, coconut water, or just the plain fruit, we can’t seem to get enough of it! The delicious smell has us craving summer and with the launch of the new Al Rifai coconut water, it helps quench our thirst for happier times. Aside from the cool packaging we knew there

Whether it’s coconut flavored ice cream, coconut water, or just the plain fruit, we can’t seem to get enough of it! The delicious smell has us craving summer and with the launch of the new Al Rifai coconut water, it helps quench our thirst for happier times. Aside from the cool packaging we knew there […]

If you’ve got a sweet tooth, Lebanon can definitely offer up some delicacies that satisfy it. Baklawa, sfouf, halawet jeben, ashtaliyye…the choices are endless. But when it comes to ice cream, people are more likely to think of the Italians than they are of the Lebanese. That’s probably because people haven’t heard of the late

Inevitably, every Christmas Eve, with the rush of getting gifts, preparing dinner and making your home into a winter wonderland of sorts, there will be one or two things you’ll suddenly remember last minute. Maybe you took your time wrapping so many presents that you unwittingly forgot that one last one at the bottom of