Bread & Bakeries
Saj Em Georges: The Lady with Magical Hands Creates Delicious Saj Manakish
If they say "A picture is worth a thousand words", a video is worth more than a million. Watch it for yourself and feel what Em Georges is all about, a lady baking love in Dbayeh for the last…
Bread & Bakeries
Saj el Asmar: Mansourieh. It Has A Special Taste, A Special Texture
The Saj Manakish have a special taste, a special texture, a different feel. Using small amounts of yeast, you can eat up to three different wraps and still feel good, not blowted and not heavy. My…
March 27, 2020
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Metn
Breakfast & Coffee
Lebanese Unconventional Saj Sandwiches: Nafass El Khal. "3al Barakeh" Mazraat Yachouh
I've been here endless times, enjoying it more and more every single visit; yummy! Tasty, passionate, creative and filled with love.
There's a big center in Mazraat Yachouh, called Au…
Breakfast & Coffee
Saj Abou Anthony: Baking Love Since 1994 in Metn
Jean has been preparing amazing manakish for the last 25 years, and I didn’t know about his bakery. Saj Abou Anthony, open from the early hours of the morning until 1 pm prepares freshly baked…
Breakfast & Coffee
Sarrouf Zalka: Saj and Poems for Breakfast
I’ve been here in 2015 and now back to this amazing hole in the wall hidden bakery. I forgot about the bizarre decor making you feel in a gallery and the happy man baking Saj manakish begins…
Lebanese/Middle Eastern
The Original Em Ali: From Souk el Tayeb to Gemmayze
“Oum Ali”, the one and only Saj Queen famous from (Souk el Tayeb) and (Souk el Akel) has opened a breakfast Parlour on Gemmayze street. A traditional eatery serving the same yellow dough…
September 25, 2018
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Gemmayze & Mar Mikhael
Breakfast & Coffee
Oasis Mar Charbel Annaya: Superb Saj Wraps!
On a windy and cold Saturday morning, when the temperature was down to -1 degree in St. Charbel... The place was all covered in white... calm and serene we walked into Oasis for breakfast.…
Lebanese/Middle Eastern
Kahwet el Mandaloun: A New Favorite Place
Close your eyes and travel back in time to when old Mercedes taxis used to glide round Beirut, to when Martyr's Square was the heart of the Middle East and to when Abou Salim used to entertain our…
January 12, 2017
| Recommended
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Dbayeh
Manakish
Chez Le Libanais: Proudly Lebanese and Tasty, in the Heart of Paris!
Nine years, nine long years here in Paris, Chez Le Libanais, is a small shop that serves the best wraps. I came across it by accident on Foursquare while looking for the best wraps in Paris. Walk in…
Lebanese/Middle Eastern
Al Chalouf: My Favorite Restaurant in Jezzine
My wife being from Jezzine, we regularly visit this beautiful village up south which the locals call a city. Surrounded by mountains of green trees, the lady of the south is indeed a gem nestled over…
May 04, 2015
| Restaurants
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South Lebanon
News
You're Not You When You're Hungry
Adweek: For a campaign that's five years old, Snickers' "You're Not You When You're Hungry" is having quite the creative renaissance this year.
April 24, 2015
Manakish
Oum Ali: Perfect Saj Manakish...
You meet people sometimes who strongly affect you one-way or another… Oum Ali is one such person. Rare… and I was lucky enough to have come across a simple and unpretentious lady…
April 08, 2015
| Tasty Discoveries
News
You're Not You When You're Hungry
On a lovely sunny day, somewhere in Lebanon, accompanied by the team, we wanted to have a hefty breakfast... Things turned out differently...
April 07, 2015
Breakfast & Coffee
Sarrouf Zalka: A Unique Discovery One Must Try
At Sarrouf, you’ll read on the walls that the food there is better than your mum's… It’s a small place, dimmed, dull and old but who cares... Food is exceptionally awesome. Come…
April 07, 2015
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Metn
Breakfast & Coffee
Special Potato and Olive Oil Saj Wraps from Hasbaya
Down south, two hours from Beirut is a bakery, a special shop producing unique markouk saj bread as well as a selection of innovative manakish. To start with, look at the dough which sticks on the…
March 09, 2015
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South Lebanon
Mechwar Videos
Baskinta: The Natural Fortress of Metn at the Foot of Mount Sannine
Baskinta is a Lebanese village situated at an altitude ranging from 1250 meters above sea level at its lowest point, to 1800 metres at Qanat Bakish. Baskinta is renowned for its natural beauty and…
March 02, 2015
| Travel & Tourism
Appliances
Innovative: An Electrical Saj Markook Maker
Until today, enjoying a Saj bite wasn’t the easiest of things. We had to wait until invited to a party up the mountain or maybe find one at an event, simply because the Saj grill itself is…
January 05, 2015
| Manakish
Breakfast & Coffee
Abou Artine: Faraya’s Renowned Saj Soujok
I think it's a ritual, stopping at the Faraya roundabout whenever you're going up to Mzaar. If you're in for a ski trip or simply visiting for some of the summer activities, the Faraya roundabout is…
News
Christmas Village Opens at Arnaoon Village, Batroun
Arnaoon Village launched its “Arnaoon Christmas Village” on Saturday 7 December. The Main objective of the “Arnaoon Christmas Village” was to take part of a Humanitarian and Social Act by offering…
December 11, 2013
Lebanese/Middle Eastern
Set Zmorrod: Nothing Could Have Been Worse than this so called Restaurant
One place I would call a ‘less than below average restaurant’ is Set Zmerrod. A place they call "a Lebanese restaurant" is located in the heart of Kaslik, facing
March 21, 2013
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Jounieh
Spotted Stories
The Daily Star Reports: Al Halabi Antelias Unique Hummus
Much has already been written about Al Halabi restaurant in Antelias, and much more could be written.
March 15, 2013
Lebanese/Middle Eastern
Tawaheen El Hawa Restaurant, Amman
Tawaheen El Hawa is your typical Lebanese-Jordanian restaurant in Amman serving a large variety of mezze and *Mansaf.
You enter through a castle like door where two big posters stuck on the door…
November 12, 2012
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Amman