بيت زيتون

Lebanese home cooking, the way it is done at home.

Thirty mezze, a charcoal grill and our grandmothers' recipes, in a 1920s stone house in Mar Mikhael.

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Open now, until 4 pmMar Mikhael, Beirut

Sunday lunch is back: the family table, mezze and grills, from 12:00.

Made this morning

Bread from our oven, hummus by hand, nothing from a jar.

Charcoal, not gas

Every skewer and chop goes over oak charcoal, the way it should.

The vine terrace

Forty seats under the vines, lanterns at night, booked fast in summer.

From the kitchen

What people come back for

Full menu

Hummus

Chickpeas, tahini, lemon and our olive oil

Tabbouleh

Parsley, tomato, mint, fine bulgur, lemon

Kebbeh

Four fried kebbeh, beef and pine nuts

Shish taouk

Chicken marinated in garlic, lemon and yoghurt

$14

Lamb chops

Four chops, rosemary, lemon

$24

Mixed grill

Taouk, kafta and lahm meshwe, for one hungry person or two light ones

$22

Our story

A house before it was a restaurant

Beit Zeitoun was the Haddad family house for three generations. We kept the arches, the tiles and the olive tree in the garden, and opened the doors in 2019.

Everything is made here every morning: the bread from our oven, the hummus by hand, the kebbeh pounded the old way. The meat comes from a butcher in Zahle we have known for twenty years.