AN ICONIC RESTAURANT OUTSIDE BEIRUT GETS NEW LIFE

[Sally]

I have to say many of the hotels and restaurants in the Middle East are very beautiful and classy looking.


AN ICONIC RESTAURANT OUTSIDE BEIRUT GETS NEW LIFE
Text by Alex Schechter lPhotography by Marco Pinarelli
July 30, 2015

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The recently refurbished La Crêperie, a historic restaurant outside Beirut.

In 1968 a Beirut family converted their late-18th-century coastal villa ten miles outside the city into La Crêperie, a polished French-inspired eatery serving seafood platters, hearty Provençal spreads, and classic crêpes. It was unlike any restaurant Lebanon had seen, praised as much for its menu as for the dramatic Mediterranean views.


Fast-forward to 2012, when current owner Chafic El Khazen, one of the original founder’s nephews, realized that the once-iconic restaurant was in need of renovation. He enlisted his brother Sari, a well-known architect, and together the pair embarked on an intense three-year restoration.

An Iconic Restaurant Outside Beirut Gets New Life Architectural Digest?

 

[westwall]

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[Sally]

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I'm sure they will do well. Perhaps in time they will expand and Fong can make chow mein and Aranda can make limpia. It seems nowadays that people from all different groups are game to experience something new when it comes to eating.

 

[IsaacNewton]

I have to say many of the hotels and restaurants in the Middle East are very beautiful and classy looking.


AN ICONIC RESTAURANT OUTSIDE BEIRUT GETS NEW LIFE
Text by Alex Schechter lPhotography by Marco Pinarelli
July 30, 2015

The recently refurbished La Crêperie, a historic restaurant outside Beirut.

In 1968 a Beirut family converted their late-18th-century coastal villa ten miles outside the city into La Crêperie, a polished French-inspired eatery serving seafood platters, hearty Provençal spreads, and classic crêpes. It was unlike any restaurant Lebanon had seen, praised as much for its menu as for the dramatic Mediterranean views.


Fast-forward to 2012, when current owner Chafic El Khazen, one of the original founder’s nephews, realized that the once-iconic restaurant was in need of renovation. He enlisted his brother Sari, a well-known architect, and together the pair embarked on an intense three-year restoration.

An Iconic Restaurant Outside Beirut Gets New Life Architectural Digest?

Wow, hard to find ANY restaurant in the U.S. that looks like that. Very nice.

 

[aris2chat]

I have to say many of the hotels and restaurants in the Middle East are very beautiful and classy looking.


AN ICONIC RESTAURANT OUTSIDE BEIRUT GETS NEW LIFE
Text by Alex Schechter lPhotography by Marco Pinarelli
July 30, 2015

The recently refurbished La Crêperie, a historic restaurant outside Beirut.

In 1968 a Beirut family converted their late-18th-century coastal villa ten miles outside the city into La Crêperie, a polished French-inspired eatery serving seafood platters, hearty Provençal spreads, and classic crêpes. It was unlike any restaurant Lebanon had seen, praised as much for its menu as for the dramatic Mediterranean views.


Fast-forward to 2012, when current owner Chafic El Khazen, one of the original founder’s nephews, realized that the once-iconic restaurant was in need of renovation. He enlisted his brother Sari, a well-known architect, and together the pair embarked on an intense three-year restoration.

An Iconic Restaurant Outside Beirut Gets New Life Architectural Digest?

Any food that could be wrapped.............. the cliff top location is beautiful