Restaurants & Cafés

Chocolates, candies and marzipan. Sounds like your typical chocolatier, but this one has been around long enough to know how to please its customers. With tasty chocolates and treats and beautiful arrangements, Alpina will wrap up the perfect gift or display trays for you and will have everybody asking.

‘All we do is good food’, claims Pierre Skandar, co-owner of this Lebanese cuisine sensation. With a setting perfect for fine dining, Amareddine offers some of the best meat skewers in town at LL27,500. For a more chilled out ambiance, spend a night on the terrace with your favourite Narguileh tang.

Ammares is a French bistro, café and restaurant. The venue offers top notch, mouthwatering dishes, with a French and Swiss chef. The setting offers a cosy indoor space and terrace close to the sea.

Exquisite Lebanese restaurant also serving plat du jour.

A splendiferous Armenian joint down an unpromising backstreet, that surprises with sunny street-side tables. Try a speciality ‘Stambouli’ with herby kefta, lashings of hummus and a fragrant vegetable sauce heavy with green peppers, or a straight lamb kebab, to be happily picked over in the sunshine.

International chain restaurant offering a wide range of burgers, platters, chicken and steak dishes. The desserts always win people over – and if you stop by Tuesdays after 8pm it’s open nachos, beer and chicken wings.

This restaurant offers a fine Lebanese cuisine seating up to 120 people. Choose between the cosy indoor space in winter, or sit outdoors and enjoy the stunning view on the terrace in the summer.

Cooking with a cause; all the chefs here are widows, who are trained by Ashghalouna in skills such as cooking and embroidery. On Friday lunchtimes they produce a huge spread of amazing food (proceeds go to charity). It’s popular with charitable ladies who lunch, so book, and try to eat in the shady courtyard garden. The shop sells pricey but high-quality embroidered gifts.

Enjoy the open central courtyard hosts this Lebanese adventure. Experience traditional delights of home cooked cuisine with top-class mezze, salads and grills. Sit out in the sunshine and enjoy a hand carved wooden narguileh.

One of the charming restaurants at the Riviera Hotel, Au Gros Sel, serves a delicious menu of Mediterranean Seafood and is located in the Beach Lounge, providing a stunning panoramic view of the Mediterranean.

Swanky French gastronomy restaurant located on the first floor of Le Vendome divided into various dining area concepts to suit your mood.

Aunty Salwa rewards those who find her with a huge smile and plates piled with food. This cubbyhole canteen has just a few tables and a range of salads and healthy veggie dishes, as well as cooked dishes of the day (which may or may not contain meat).

Lebanese restaurant and café offering mezze, daily specials and a soup bar, and an open buffet is set up every Sunday for lunch. Internet and narguileh available. Live entertainment every Friday and Saturday nights.

Massive Arabic-style restaurant with both an à la carte menu and a set formula. Try the maajouaa, the hummus Istambouli and their succulent mixed grills.

A great getaway tucked in on the marina, offering first-rate Lebanese dishes. Have a feel of Lebanese tradition and culture in the fine ambience as you relish on superb meals. A marvelous view of the sea is available to all.