Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Beirut from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Beirut
Our guide counts two exceptional wine programs in Beirut, citywide. Burgundy in Saifi Village has an exceptional program and an extensive list, Clap in Downtown Beirut / Martyr's Square serves omakase with an extensive list, and Beihouse in Gemmayzeh serves modern Levantine food with an extensive list.
Burgundy in Saifi Village is a Modern French fine dining restaurant with an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list. Bottle walls frame the dining room. The kitchen serves a tasting menu with Burgundy wine pairings and also offers an a la carte menu.
Clap in Downtown Beirut / Martyr's Square serves modern Japanese omakase with Nikkei influences. The restaurant occupies a rooftop terrace on the 8th floor of the Annahar building, with views of the skyline and the Mediterranean Sea. The wine program is sommelier-led, with an extensive wine list, sake and craft cocktails. Meals run as omakase and as a tasting menu.
Beihouse in Gemmayzeh cooks modern Levantine Mediterranean food a la carte. The wine program has an extensive wine list and craft cocktails. The room is a set of restored Lebanese houses around a courtyard with an olive tree. Chef Tarek Alameldine runs the kitchen. World's 50 Best placed it fifth on the MENA list in 2026, and The Best Chef awarded One Knife in 2025.
Achrafieh holds seven venues in our guide, the largest neighborhood cluster. Em Sherif, Liza and Albergo Rooftop all sit in Achrafieh, with set menu meze, modern Lebanese plates and a rooftop wine list.
Em Sherif in Achrafieh serves traditional Lebanese fine dining as a set menu of 30-plus meze plates. Traditional taarab music plays live in the dining room. Chef Mireille Hayek cooks from Lebanese produce. The wine program has an extensive wine list. World's 50 Best ranked it 13th on the MENA list in 2026.
Liza in Achrafieh serves modern Lebanese food a la carte and in small plates. The restaurant occupies a restored 19th-century palace with Levantine tiles, golden lanterns and rooms full of light. The cooking works from mezze and Lebanese ingredients.
Albergo Rooftop in Achrafieh cooks Mediterranean food with Italian accents from an a la carte menu. The wine program has an extensive wine list. A 16-meter pool and gardens sit on the rooftop, with a panoramic view of the city, in Beirut's only Relais & Châteaux hotel. The restaurant holds Relais Chateaux awards for 2026 and 2025. Chef Ygor Lopes leads the kitchen.
Two exceptional wine programs are in our guide, citywide. Burgundy in Saifi Village is one: a Modern French fine dining restaurant with an extensive wine list and Burgundy wine pairings on the tasting menu. Bottle walls frame the room. The second program is not named here.
The number of Michelin-starred restaurants in Beirut in our guide is zero, and the total number of Michelin stars in Beirut in our guide is zero. Both of these figures are citywide. Arthaus Beirut in Gemmayze is a Michelin Selected hotel for 2025.
Tasting menus in our guide are at Burgundy in Saifi Village and at Clap in Downtown Beirut / Martyr's Square. Burgundy pairs its tasting menu with Burgundy wine and also serves a la carte in a Modern French fine dining room. Clap serves its tasting menu as omakase, modern Japanese with Nikkei influences, with a sommelier-led list and sake.
Burgundy in Saifi Village, Clap in Downtown Beirut / Martyr's Square, Beihouse in Gemmayzeh, Em Sherif in Achrafieh, and Albergo Rooftop in Achrafieh hold extensive wine lists in our guide. Burgundy has an exceptional wine program and Burgundy wine pairings on the tasting menu. Clap has a sommelier-led list and sake. Beihouse, Em Sherif and Albergo Rooftop have wine lists.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Selected entries from the current guide for Beirut.
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
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
Beirut, Lebanon
Le Chef occupies a quiet address on Gouraud Street in Gemmayzeh, one of Beirut's most historically layered dining corridors. It operates in the tradition of the Lebanese neighbourhood lunch house, where the meal follows the kitchen's rhythm rather than the customer's clock. For visitors and locals alike, it represents an introduction to how Beirut actually eats when it is not performing for an audience.
Beirut, Lebanon
Liza sits on Rue Trabeau in Beirut as one of the city's most recognised addresses for Lebanese cuisine presented with formal care. The room draws on the country's tradition of abundant, ingredient-led mezze while occupying a tier of the market where sourcing and setting carry equal weight. For visitors orienting themselves in Beirut's dining scene, it represents a clear reference point.
Beirut, Lebanon
Few addresses in Beirut carry the street-level authority of M. Sahyoun Falafel, a name woven into the city's daytime eating culture long before the capital's restaurant scene began chasing international recognition. This is falafel at its most grounded: a neighbourhood institution that locals use as a reference point rather than a destination. For anyone building a serious picture of Beirut's food culture, it belongs on the itinerary alongside formal dining rooms and rooftop tables alike.
Beirut, Lebanon
Malak Al Tawouk is among Beirut's most recognizable names in grilled chicken and fast-casual Lebanese street food, drawing steady queues from locals who treat it as a reference point rather than a destination. Where peers lean into sit-down mezze traditions, Malak Al Tawouk holds its position in the counter-service tier, built on consistent execution of a tight, focused menu in a city that takes its tawouk seriously.
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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.
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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
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.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Beirut.
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.
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.
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