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Al Beiruti Elevates Lebanese Dining with the Launch of Its Most Refined Menu

Al Beiruti, the acclaimed Restau-Café that has reimagined Lebanese dining across the region, has officially launched its all-new menu. This latest culinary chapter honors the rich roots of Lebanese cuisine while embracing evolving tastes and diverse lifestyles with an expanded offering of vegetarian dishes, premium seafood selections, bold basterma creations, and fresh takes on classic favorites.

The new menu introduces the Al Beiruti Breakfast – a true celebration of Lebanon’s breakfast table culture. Designed for sharing and centered around variety, it includes eggs prepared to your liking, walnut labneh, an array of traditional favorites such as hummus, foul, falafel, hummus fatteh, balila, and shakshouka, along with a generous mixed cheese platter and a curated dessert platter. Guests also enjoy their choice of two freshly baked oven, accompanied by a colorful vegetable and assorted pickles platters. The breakfast is completed with four servings of Lebanese coffee or tea.

In addition to the breakfast experience, the menu now features an expanded oven section with its own lineup of savory specialties. These include cheese-stuffed zaatar, wild zaatar, kafta cheese, and egg, meat & cheese, each baked to order and crafted with premium ingredients that reflect the richness of Lebanese bakery traditions.

In its commitment to variety and inclusivity, Al Beiruti has introduced an impressive range of vegetarian dishes. These include comforting and hearty options like lentil kebbe, vegetarian kebbe, potato kebbe, as well as the home-style bemye bel zeit and foul akhdar. Seafood enthusiasts are equally catered to with dishes such as marinated grilled shrimp, marinated grilled calamari, and a signature grilled seafood platter featuring jumbo shrimps, grilled fish skewers, and calamari, served with thick-cut fries and house-made sauces.

For those who crave the rich, smoky flavor of basterma, the new menu includes cheese and basterma manakish, basterma cheese rolls, basterma labneh, and a refined basterma carpaccio. The menu also sees the arrival of warm additions like creamy tomato soup, chicken kale salad, artichoke provençal, chicken tenders provençal, and honey garlic chicken. Hearty mains include a reimagined chicken cordon bleu and the Al Beiruti Steak—premium sliced tenderloin served over a signature creamy mustard sauce.

Younger guests can now enjoy a chicken burger specially crafted for the kids’ menu, while dessert lovers will find indulgence in every bite with new sweet endings including baklava pistachio, tiramisu, chocolate and caramel pain perdu, classic French toast, and creamy rice pudding.

“This new menu is a love letter to Beirut,” said the Al Beiruti team. “It brings our guests closer to the flavors, stories, and soul of Lebanese cuisine, while adding new layers of creativity and inclusivity. From a morning manakish to a full seafood platter at dinner, there’s something for every mood and moment.”

The full menu is now available at all Al Beiruti locations in Dubai, Cairo, and Beirut.

About Al Beiruti:

Welcome to Al Beiruti, a new chapter redefining the world of Lebanese Restau-Cafés, bringing bits of Beirut everywhere it goes. Beyond its thrilling energy and its urban flair that is unmistakably Lebanese, Beirut will forever be known for its scenes of endless tablescapes of mezzes and cafés fragrant with that alluring mist from an afternoon well-spent with friends over a perfectly-crafted shisha.

Honoring its namesake, Al Beiruti embodies all things Beirut and brings the city’s undeniable soulfulness everywhere it goes, serving memories and aspirations while mixing the old with the new. Setting its own culture by combining those elements one looks for in both a perfect restaurant and a homey café, the Al Beiruti Restau-Café experience sets the tone once you take your first steps through the door: the chatter of a crowd while they indulge in impeccably-executed Lebanese dishes and international favorites, a Show Kitchen buzzing with spirit where the chefs blend into the dining experience, and, last but certainly not least, that world-famous Lebanese hospitality with an unparalleled attention to detail making you feel right at home.

Al Beiruti is an all-day dining destination with something for every part of every day — bright mornings over freshly made mankoushé and the perfect cup of coffee, long lunches with the family, afternoons with friends animated by the sounds of tawlé games, and loungy evenings spent over a shisha crafted to perfection by Al Beiruti’s very own Shisha Master.

Welcome to Al Beiruti, a new chapter redefining the world of Lebanese Restau-Cafés, bringing bits of Beirut everywhere it goes.

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