Country dossier
Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries across Lebanon in the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Lebanon
Beirut has the widest restaurant concentration in our guide, and its strongest rooms pair formal cooking with wine programs.
Burgundy in Saifi Village is a modern French fine dining restaurant with an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list. The kitchen serves tasting menus with Burgundy wine pairings and also offers an a la carte menu. Bottle walls frame the dining room, and the cooking is built around precise knife work in that cellar setting.
Em Sherif in Achrafieh serves traditional Lebanese fine dining as a set menu of 30-plus meze plates. Mireille Hayek's succession of plates is served in an opulent dining room with live traditional taarab music. The wine program has an extensive wine list. World's 50 Best ranked it 13th on MENA's Best Restaurants in 2026.
Beihouse in Gemmayzeh cooks modern Levantine Mediterranean food a la carte, with Lebanese staples handled in a modern way by Chef Tarek Alameldine. The wine program has an extensive wine list and craft cocktails. Restored 19th-century Lebanese houses surround a courtyard with a century-old olive tree. World's 50 Best ranked it fifth on MENA's Best Restaurants in 2026.
Liza in Achrafieh is a modern Lebanese restaurant with a wine list. Service runs a la carte and as small plates, and the cooking stays with ingredient-led mezze. The restaurant occupies a restored 19th-century palace on Rue Trabeau, with Levantine tiles, golden lanterns and light-flooded rooms.
Three Beirut bars occupy Mar Mikhael, Minet Al Hoson and Hamra, one neighbourhood each. Albergo Rooftop is a restaurant in Achrafieh.
Central Station in Mar Mikhael is a boutique bar on Armenia Street, with creative craft cocktails and a wine list. The format is a la carte. World's 50 Best Bars ranked the bar 26th in 2016 and included it again in 2018.
MusicHall Starco in Minet Al Hoson is a cabaret-style bar with classic cocktails and multilingual live performances that blend Eastern and Western traditions. The room runs up to 12 acts a night. It is a large-format nightlife venue where live performance and drinking share the same room.
Albergo Rooftop in Achrafieh is rooftop dining at Beirut's only Relais & Châteaux hotel. The menu is Mediterranean with Italian accents, served a la carte, with an extensive wine list. Chef Ygor Lopes leads the kitchen. It holds a Relais Chateaux Award for 2025 and a Relais Chateaux Award for 2026.
Abou Elie Pub in Hamra is a communist-themed pub established in 1975, with walls lined with revolutionary imagery. It pours craft cocktails. The room has drawn intellectuals, activists and locals into political discussion, and the crowd is local, with a format built on repeat custom.
Several Beirut neighbourhoods carry their own dining identity, from Mar Mikhael's busy restaurant corridor to Achrafieh's formal rooms and Gemmayzeh's restored houses.
Tawlet in Mar Mikhael is a buffet of traditional Lebanese home cooking, with the open buffet changing daily. Village cooks from across the country run the kitchen, and each day brings a different regional cook and a different set of preparations. The restaurant sits on Armenia Street.
Mayrig in Gemmayzeh serves authentic Armenian cooking in a la carte, small plates and family-style formats. Family-style sharing plates include crispy manti dumplings and flame-grilled meats. The restaurant was rebuilt after the 2020 Beirut port explosion. It sits on Pasteur Street.
Al Falamanki Sodeco in Sodeco is a traditional Lebanese restaurant with a la carte and small plates service. It is a garden restaurant with a village-like setting in urban Beirut. Casual service accompanies seating in the garden and on the terrace.
M. Sahyoun Falafel in Ras El-Nabeh is a one-item falafel shop established in 1935. The shop serves light, airy deep-fried falafel balls in a pita wrap with fresh tomatoes, radishes, parsley, mint and a tartar sauce. Service is a la carte.
Bekaa Valley has three wineries in our guide, all awarded, and further wineries sit in other towns. The four estates in this section are in West Bekaa Valley, Kab-Elias and Bekaa Valley.
Château Kefraya in West Bekaa Valley is a historic winery built on Roman ruins. The estate blends French and indigenous grapes and ages wine in amphora. It holds a Falstaff winery listing for 2026 and World's 50 Best Vineyards recognition.
Château Héritage in Kab-Elias is a family-owned Lebanese winery that blends nine local grape varieties. The estate has a place on the World's 50 Best Vineyards list for 2024 and 2025.
Château Ksara in Bekaa Valley is Lebanon's oldest and largest winery, founded by Jesuit priests in 1857. Roman-era cave cellars form an underground network used for aging wines and for tours. The estate produces around 3 million bottles a year. It holds a Falstaff winery listing for 2026.
Domaine de Baal in Bekaa Valley is a high-altitude organic winery with a Falstaff winery listing for 2026. It works organically at 1,200 meters, producing precise natural wines from estate-grown fruit, wild yeast fermentation and limestone-clay soils. The cellar is low-intervention, and a half-underground barrel cellar is designed for stable natural cooling.
Beirut has the strongest concentration in our guide, with 37 EPC venues and the broadest spread of restaurants, bars and hotels. For winery travel, the Bekaa Valley and nearby mountain areas carry the most focused wine estate cluster, including Château Ksara, Château Kefraya, Château Héritage and Domaine de Baal.
Our Lebanon guide has no Michelin-starred restaurants. Burgundy in Saifi Village serves modern French tasting menus with Burgundy wine pairings and an exceptional wine program. Em Sherif in Achrafieh serves traditional Lebanese fine dining with an extensive wine list.
Achrafieh holds Em Sherif, Liza and Albergo Rooftop, each with a wine list. Saifi Village holds Burgundy, with an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list. Gemmayzeh holds Beihouse, with an extensive wine list. Mar Mikhael holds Central Station, a bar with craft cocktails and a wine list.
Burgundy in Saifi Village has an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list. Em Sherif in Achrafieh and Beihouse in Gemmayzeh have wine lists and extensive wine lists. Château Kefraya in West Bekaa Valley holds a Falstaff winery listing for 2026. Château Héritage in Kab-Elias holds World's 50 Best Vineyards recognition for 2025.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Lebanon
Selected entries from the current guide for Lebanon.
Beirut, Lebanon
Ranked ninth in the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 list, Em Sherif translates the logic of Lebanese home cooking into a formal dining setting without flattening what makes it compelling. The room layers chandeliers, deep pink and blue textiles, and live Arabic music against a menu built from endemic Lebanese produce. It occupies the upper tier of Beirut's restaurant scene and prices accordingly.
Beirut, Lebanon
Central Station occupies a corner of Beirut's Armenia Street, pulling regulars from across the city's fragmented dining scene. The address sits within a neighbourhood where industrial-era architecture and contemporary hospitality have found an uneasy coexistence. For a city that drinks seriously and eats with conviction, Central Station is worth understanding on its own terms.
Beirut, Lebanon
Beihouse occupies a palatial space on Pasteur Street in Beirut, rebuilt after sustaining damage in the 2020 port explosion. Under Chef Tarek Alameldine, the kitchen works through Lebanese staples with a considered, modern approach. The setting carries the weight of that history visibly, making it one of the more charged dining rooms in a city that has learned to cook through difficulty.
Beirut, Lebanon
Chef Ygor Lopes leads a kitchen recognised under the Cooking Classics designation, placing this rooftop address within Beirut's broader conversation about how traditional cuisine translates to contemporary settings.
Beirut, Lebanon
Opened in December 2023 on Gouraud Street, Buco is a modern gastro bar that treats the burger as a serious culinary subject. Launched by Noma alumnus Tarek Alameddine alongside his sisters, it operates at the intersection of premium casual and craft cocktail culture, a format that has found a clear lane in Beirut's post-recovery dining scene.
Beirut, Lebanon
Lobby Café & Courtyard brings an Italian sourcing lens to Achrafieh, pairing imported pasta, cheeses, hams and porcini with produce from Lebanese mountain growers. The draw is not novelty but continuity: a grand Beirut room where classic risotto and speciality pasta have anchored the cooking since 1992.
Beirut, Lebanon
Al Falamanki Sodeco serves Traditional Lebanese in Beirut with garden and terrace seating, casual service, and a conversational room that suits brunch through late night.
Matn, Lebanon
Al Halabi Restaurant in Antelias sits within the Matn District's established tradition of Lebanese dining, where the table is organised around the logic of shared mezze and ingredient-forward cooking. The address places it in one of Greater Beirut's most active suburban dining corridors, where local reputation carries more weight than formal accolades. Seek it out for the kind of meal that prioritises produce over presentation.
Beirut, Lebanon
Al Rawda sits on Chouran Street in the Manara area, facing the Nejmeh Club, placing it firmly within a neighbourhood where traditional Lebanese hospitality has always operated at street level. The restaurant draws on the deep-rooted meze culture that defines Beirut's informal dining tradition, where shared plates and long tables set the rhythm of a meal rather than any single dish or chef persona.
Beirut, Lebanon
Albergo Terrace belongs to Achrafieh’s rooftop dining culture, where Beirut’s appetite for long, social meals meets a high-rise view over one of the city’s older quarters. The draw is less about a documented chef-led tasting format and more about setting: an open-air terrace context suited to mezze-led ordering, Lebanese produce, and unhurried evening meals.
Beirut, Lebanon
Babel Bay sits within Beirut's dining scene as a venue that draws on the city's instinct for convivial, layered hospitality. With a name that gestures toward the Mediterranean port culture threading through Lebanon's culinary history, it occupies a tier of Beirut restaurants where the room, the table, and the kitchen are expected to work as a single coordinated argument. Practical details including booking logistics are best confirmed directly before visiting.
Beirut, Lebanon
On Pharaon Street in Beirut, BARON occupies a position that regulars treat as a fixed point in the city's dining week. The address has built its following through consistency and a sense of place rather than seasonal reinvention, drawing the kind of clientele that books a table not to mark an occasion but because returning is simply part of how they eat in this city.
Beirut, Lebanon
Basterma Mano is a Beirut institution built around the cured-meat tradition that gives it its name. Regulars return not for novelty but for consistency: the kind of Lebanese mezze and charcuterie-forward table that feels earned rather than designed. In a city where dining rooms open and close at speed, this one holds its ground through repetition and loyalty.
Beirut, Lebanon
Boubouffe is a Beirut restaurant that fits into the city's tradition of convivial, food-forward dining where the menu does the talking. Operating in a city where Lebanese cuisine ranges from street-level falafel counters to elaborate mezze institutions, Boubouffe occupies the middle register where informal warmth and serious cooking coexist. It draws a local crowd that reads as a reliable signal in a restaurant culture as self-aware as Beirut's.
Keserwan District, Lebanon
In the mountain village of Hrajel above the Keserwan District, BRUT by Youssef Akiki operates at the intersection of Lebanese terroir and contemporary technique. The kitchen draws directly from the agricultural landscape surrounding it, positioning itself within a small but growing cohort of Lebanese restaurants treating provenance as the starting point for every dish. It is one of the more compelling arguments for leaving Beirut's dining corridor entirely.
Beirut, Lebanon
Burgundy occupies a specific position in Beirut's mid-to-upper dining tier, where the name signals a French-inflected sensibility in a city that has long maintained an unusually close relationship with the wines and food culture of eastern France. Against peers like Em Sherif and Al Falamanki Sodeco, it reads as a quieter, more intimate proposition in a scene that rarely rewards restraint.
Beirut, Lebanon
St. Nicolas Street and the Weight of the Lebanese Table Restos St. Nicolas in Beirut is one of those streets where the evening air carries competing kitchens, charcoal, citrus, dried herbs, and where the decision of where to sit is made as...
Beirut, Lebanon
Positioned on the second floor of the Qaddoura Building along Rue Dar el Mreisseh in Ain el Mreisseh, Casablanca occupies one of Beirut's most historically layered waterfront corridors. The address alone places it in conversation with the city's long tradition of sea-facing dining rooms where Lebanese coastal cooking and cosmopolitan influences have coexisted for decades. For visitors tracing Beirut's dining geography, this is a reference point on the corniche-adjacent circuit.
Beirut, Lebanon
Clap sits on Martyr’s Square in Beirut’s Annahar Bldg, 8th Floor, serving modern Japanese omakase with Nikkei influences, skyline views, and a sommelier-led drinks program.
Beirut, Lebanon
El Soussi serves traditional Lebanese breakfast in a family-owned historic building, with fatteh, ful and hummus suited to breakfast or lunch.
Byblos, Lebanon
In Byblos, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, Feniqia occupies a position in Lebanon's broader conversation about what coastal Levantine cooking can look like when its ingredients are treated as the argument. The city's Phoenician past hangs over every plate of mezze and every fire-grilled catch in ways that few dining rooms in the region can match. Feniqia puts that context to work.
Beirut, Lebanon
Frank Würst Fine Hotdog applies craft-level seriousness to the hotdog format in Beirut, a city with a long tradition of single-item specialists done well. The Germanic-inflected name signals deliberate product focus in a casual, walk-in format. It sits within a current generation of Lebanese operators elevating street-food categories without overcomplicating them.
Beirut, Lebanon
Hanna Mitri is one of Beirut's most enduring addresses for traditional Lebanese sweets and pastries, drawing generations of locals who treat a visit as ritual rather than occasion. The shop occupies a particular place in the city's collective memory, where the act of selecting, wrapping, and sharing sweets carries as much weight as the sweets themselves. For anyone tracing the spine of Lebanese confectionery tradition, it belongs on the itinerary alongside the city's broader dining canon.
Batroun, Lebanon
On Batroun's Old Sea Side Road, Jammal occupies a stretch of Lebanese coast where the proximity to the Mediterranean shapes what lands on the table. The address places it inside a district increasingly recognised for produce-led cooking that draws on local fishermen, mountain farms, and centuries-old mezze tradition. For visitors working through the north Lebanese dining circuit, it earns a place on the itinerary.
Lebanon
Selected entries from the current guide for Lebanon.
Beirut, Lebanon
A 1930s mansion in Achrafieh that holds the 2025 World Travel Awards title for Lebanon's Leading Boutique Hotel, Hotel Albergo operates within the Relais & Châteaux network and rates from US$306 per night. The rooftop pool with panoramic mountain views and the preserved pre-war architecture place it in a distinct category among Beirut's accommodation options, small in scale, deliberate in character.
Beirut, Lebanon
Le Gray occupies a commanding position in Beirut's Central District, carrying Leading Hotels of the World membership into 2025, a credential that places it firmly within the city's small tier of internationally referenced luxury addresses. For travellers who want proximity to the historic downtown core without sacrificing the kind of physical and service infrastructure that global hotel programmes recognise, it makes a coherent case.
Beirut, Lebanon
A 41-room independent boutique property in Saifi, Downtown Beirut, O Monot occupies one of the city's more considered residential neighbourhoods and pairs a thoroughly renovated room stock with an in-house gourmet restaurant. For travellers seeking a smaller, design-attentive alternative to Beirut's larger hotel addresses, it represents a coherent choice in a competitive urban tier.
Beirut, Lebanon
A Michelin Selected property on Gouraud Street in Gemmayze, Arthaus Beirut occupies one of the neighbourhood's most architecturally considered addresses. The hotel sits within a district where adaptive reuse of historic Beiruti townhouses has become the dominant design language, and its selection by the 2025 Michelin Hotels guide places it among the city's more stays.
Matn, Lebanon
Le Royal Hotel Beirut occupies a commanding position along the Dbayeh coastal corridor north of central Beirut, where the Matn district meets the Mediterranean. The property sits within the upper tier of Lebanese full-service hotels, drawing guests who prioritise scale and amenity depth over the boutique formats now prevalent in Achrafieh and Gemmayzeh.
Lebanon
Selected entries from the current guide for Lebanon.
Beirut, Lebanon
Central Station occupies a corner of Beirut's Armenia Street, pulling regulars from across the city's fragmented dining scene. The address sits within a neighbourhood where industrial-era architecture and contemporary hospitality have found an uneasy coexistence. For a city that drinks seriously and eats with conviction, Central Station is worth understanding on its own terms.
Beirut, Lebanon
Electric Bing Sutt is a Beirut cocktail bar on the World's 50 Best Bars list. It is a dedicated drinks destination in the city's nightlife.
Beirut, Lebanon
A fixture on Beirut's pub circuit, Abou Elie occupies the kind of position that neighbourhood bars in the city's busier quarters earn through longevity rather than concept launches. The crowd is local, the format unpretentious, and the atmosphere built on repeat custom rather than occasion dining. For visitors reading the city through its drinking culture, it offers a grounded counterpoint to Beirut's more programmatic bar scene.
Beirut, Lebanon
MusicHall Starco occupies a particular tier in Beirut's entertainment and bar scene, where live performance and serious drinking coexist under one roof. Located in the Starco district, the venue draws a crowd that expects both production value and well-constructed drinks. For visitors working through Beirut's bar circuit, it represents one of the city's larger-format nightlife addresses.
Lebanon
Selected entries from the current guide for Lebanon.
Bekaa Valley, Lebanon
Set against a backdrop where Roman temples dedicated to Bacchus once stood, the winery positions itself within Lebanon's small tier of prestige producers. Visitors approaching the region encounter a winemaking tradition that predates most European appellations by several millennia.
Kafraya, Lebanon
Château Kefraya sits in the Bekaa Valley's western reaches, where altitude and continental exposure shape wines that carry the imprint of Lebanon's most demanding growing terrain. For those exploring the country's serious wine tradition, Kefraya is a logical reference point.
بحمدون, Lebanon
Château Cana sits in Bhamdoun, high in Lebanon's Lamartine Valley, where the terrain that once captured a nineteenth-century French poet's attention now shapes a wine estate. The elevation and pine-forested hillsides define both the character of the site and the register of the wines produced here, placing Château Cana within the smaller tier of Lebanese estates defined by altitude and terroir rather than volume.
Bekaa Valley, Lebanon
Château Oumsiyat is a family-run winery in the mountain village of Mtein, Mount Lebanon. It produces Lebanon's only Assyrtiko, the 'Cuvée Membliarus', named after a Phoenician governor, making it a reference point for anyone tracing the limits of what Lebanese viticulture can absorb from the wider Mediterranean.
Chnaneir, Lebanon
Adyar Wine frames Lebanese wine through monastic landholding, organic farming, and a multi-terroir reading of the country rather than a single estate narrative. In Chnaneir, the experience is less about cellar-door spectacle than about how the Lebanese Maronite Order unified monastery vineyards into a contemporary wine identity with deep religious and agricultural roots.
Rachkiddeh, Lebanon
Aurora Winery is a small mountain producer in Rachkiddeh, shaped by high-altitude terraces, sustainable farming and a quiet garden setting. The draw is not scale or ceremony, but the Batroun hills themselves: still reds, whites and rosé framed by vineyard tours, food-paired tastings and a slow-lunch rhythm.
Beirut, Lebanon
Château Barka brings Beirut-based wine travellers into Lebanon’s high-altitude Bekaa tradition, with organic vineyards, still red, white and rosé wines, and a quiet countryside setting shaped by mountain and vineyard views. The draw is terroir rather than spectacle: estate tastings, vineyard visits, food pairing options and a family-run production model that keeps the experience intimate.
Ksara, Lebanon
Château Ksara gives Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley wine culture a clear physical form: high-elevation vineyards, Roman-era cave cellars, and a polished visitor operation built around tastings, tours, and lunch. Founded in 1857, the estate operates at a scale few Lebanese wineries match, producing around 3 million bottles annually and exporting to more than 40 countries.
Ghazir, Lebanon
Château Musar is a historic Lebanese winery in Ghazir, founded in 1930 and shaped by mountain cellars, Bekaa Valley fruit, and long cellar aging. The draw is not polished spectacle but a serious encounter with Lebanon’s wine tradition: organic vineyards, native grapes, natural fermentation, and a cellar culture built around patience.
Bekaa Valley, Lebanon
Château St. Thomas is a Bekaa Valley winery shaped by altitude, limestone-pebbly clay soils and a rock-cut cellar that suits a serious look at modern Lebanese wine. The estate works across international grapes and Lebanese varieties, with guided tastings, vineyard context and chapel visits giving the experience a stronger sense of place than a simple cellar stop.
Zahle, Lebanon
Domaine de Baal frames Bekaa Valley wine through altitude, limestone-clay soils, and low-intervention cellar work rather than cellar-door spectacle. The Zahle estate works organically at 1,200 meters, with wild yeast fermentation, estate-grown fruit, and a half-underground barrel cellar designed for stable natural cooling.
Beirut, Lebanon
A serious Middle Eastern wine reference with Beirut management and production rooted in Syria’s Coastal Mountain Range. Domaine de Bargylus Grand Vin De Syrie - Famille Saadé is strongest when read through terroir: clay-limestone soils, Mediterranean influence, estate-grown fruit, and a small still-red and still-white portfolio shaped by unusual political and logistical pressure.
Jdita, Lebanon
Its appeal is not polish but continuity, with Decanter, The Daily Telegraph, and the Financial Times recognition reinforcing its place in Lebanese wine culture.
Batroun, Lebanon
IXSIR frames Lebanese wine through altitude: vineyards run from Batroun–Basbina up to Ainata at 1,800 meters, with Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Viognier, Muscat and other varieties spread across distinct mountain sites. The Batroun estate adds a design-led winery building, restaurant pairing format and international recognition for both wine and architecture.
Jezzine, Lebanon
Karam Wines operates out of Qattine, near Jezzine in Southern Lebanon, shifting the country's wine conversation away from its Bekaa Valley anchor. For those prepared to travel south, the reward is a perspective on Lebanese wine that the Bekaa cannot offer.
Baabda, Lebanon
Massaya’s Baabda address is the administrative face of a Lebanese wine-and-arak house whose real story stretches across Tanaïl in the Beqaa Valley and Faqra in Mount Lebanon. Founded in 1992 by the Ghosn brothers with French wine-family partnerships, the operation reads less like a single cellar door and more like a multi-site Lebanese wine platform built around place, hospitality, and arak heritage.
Batroun, Lebanon
Batroun Mountains Winery belongs to the newer, craft-led side of Lebanese wine, rooted in Batroun and shaped by a first-generation producer established in 2003. Its strongest signal is technical: winemaker Assaad and assistant winemaker Hala both trained at UC Davis, with Hala noted as the first Lebanese female graduate of its Viticulture and Enology Program.
Khirbet Qanafar, Lebanon
Château Qanafar brings a small-production, family-run reading of Lebanese wine to Khirbet Qanafar, with vineyards close enough to move hand-harvested fruit into fermentation quickly. The draw is the direct link between farming, cellar work, and tasting: Eddy, trained at UC Davis, handles the process from berry to bottle, while visits are appointment-led and proprietor-conducted.
