Mar Mikhael

Whether it’s a plowing truck re-used as a makeshift bar stool, or a door frame re-used as a table, most of the furniture and objects used in Junkyard, Mario Haddad …

“We gradually noticed a few abandoned commercial venues being renovated and then new tenants moving in. They were mainly little boutiques owned by young adults and at first we felt …

Picture this: You walk into a restaurant, serve yourself a generous helping of each of the items on the buffet, have a waiter pour you unlimited cups of water and …

Strolling through the rather quiet streets of Badaro on any given afternoon, it is hard to imagine that the area was once a buzzing Beirut neighborhood with more than 12 …

Mario e Mario, the latest Italian restaurant to hit Beirut, opened during the first week of February 2014. Yet it is not what most Lebanese are used to, as it …

The Mar Mikhael district of Beirut is undoubtedly the city’s most fashionable right now. Its rise has been so rapid that it can be a challenge just keeping on top …

Toward the end of the year 2010, something strange began happening in the Mar Mikhael neighbourhood. Usually visited when a car was in need of repairs or as an escape from …

For hundreds of years, land has been a refuge investment and much-preferred option to cash. The same is true today, as investors have had enough scares with financial market investments …

What do you do with your plot of land waiting for a delayed permit from the Ministry of Tourism to build a new restaurant on it? Options vary from converting …