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Authentic Lebanese Food - HUGE MEZZE + MEAT PLATTER in Beirut, Lebanon!
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Authentic Lebanese Food – HUGE MEZZE + MEAT PLATTER in Beirut, Lebanon!



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Thank you to USAID – My visit to Lebanon was supported by the USAID Lebanon Enterprise Development Project. #LebaneseFood #Beirut #Lebanon

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Thanks to Ibrahim Osta (Director Middle East & North Africa, Chemonics International): https://www.instagram.com/ibrahim_osta/ https://www.facebook.com/ibrahim.osta.35
Fadi Abu Jaber: https://www.instagram.com/jordanality/
Kamel: https://www.instagram.com/feryal.boutique/

CELEBRATION OF FOOD – On my first day, actually first evening in Beirut, Lebanon, we tried over 25 different dishes – it was indeed a celebration of Lebanese food! For a long long time now, I’ve been a huge fan of Lebanese food. Even as a kid, I would go out to eat Lebanese food with my parents, and we’d some of the most common dishes like hummus, tabbouleh, baba ghanoush and shish taouk. So already with a love for Lebanese cuisine, I was thrilled to be in Beirut, Lebanon, for the first time, to try the real food!

What is Mezze? – Mezze is an entire culture of eating small dishes served as appetizers and salads. Along with a full mezze spread, it’s common to drink arak, a traditional Levantine spirit made from grapes and aniseed.

Abou Hassan Restaurant (https://goo.gl/maps/X9PMsa54MHgekLrg9) – Maya brought us to Abou Hassan, a well known mezze and Lebanese food restaurant in Beirut. I loved it from the moment I walked in and saw all the different mezze appetizers and salads lined up and waiting to be ordered. It was without a doubt a festival of foods, flavors, colors, a true taste of Lebanese eating culture.
Here are a few of the dishes we ordered:
Tabbouleh – Salad of parsley, bulgar, tomatoes, onions, lemon
Warak Enab – Stuffed grape leaves
Lebanese Toum – King of dips, pure garlic blended with vegetable oil
Shanklish – Aged Levantine cheese
Lamb Brains – Sautéed with garlic sauce
Tagine – Tahini (sesame paste), roasted nuts
Chicken Hearts – Caramelised in pomegranate molasses

Al Halabi Restaurant (https://goo.gl/maps/rkYpWgqZSsJFqPWr7) – Next, my friend Kamel () brought us to Al Halabi Restaurant, an iconic restaurant in Beirut, known for mezze and especially for the Lebanese raw meat platter. Raw meat is commonly eaten in Lebanon, and it’s a delicacy and it’s incredibly delicious. We had raw lamb fat, meat of various textures, kibbeh nayyeh, and raw liver. Additionally, after another spectacular Lebanese meal, we were ushered to another table that was filled with dessert – a bounty of never ending fruit and sweet desserts.

Thank you again to USAID Lebanon Enterprise Development Project for supporting my trip to Lebanon.

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41 Comments

  3. BelDagz

    WoW! SUper friendly people, brotherhood at its best…Very good looking food too! – greetings from southeast Asia

  10. nasma nasma

    I hate how the bold guy is just jumping along what seems to a free trip, he eats most and never honors the guest for whom the trip was organized in the first place😡😡. He seems so selfish which does not represent the arab culture at all. He takes the first and best bites every time the food comes in, and he never offers the foreign guest first . If he is there eating for free, the least he can do is show some hospitality!!!!!

  17. puros papas

    Really really really love mark's videos i think he is amazing and just remarkable on how you explains different cultures and food except for i feel like he stuffed his mouth very much and semi disrespectful at times..🤷‍♂️🤣..lol

  18. puros papas

    Keep up the great work…. Keep them videos coming .. It's almost like we get to travel with you

  20. Michelle Maistry

    WoW!
    I've only ever seen videos of Lebanese weddings but DAMN the culture and traditional foods are incredible. Would love to visit Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, France, China and ….. oh what the heck while I'm dreaming i'd like to visit ALL of the places you've been to Mark, before my life is over
    😍👌

  21. jazmineak

    Can't believe they are smoking in the restaurant the people on the table behind in AL Halaby

  22. Eamon Castlebara

    My friends and I used to drive up to the mountainous Maronite areas above Beirut to buy strings of little birds from young boys who would sell them along the sides of the road. We would broil them and eat them on pita bread.

  23. Sam Roma

    Lebanon was beautiful when it was mainly Christian.
    Muslims have slowly turned Lebanon into another Islamic sh💩thole.

  29. Pål Kristiansen

    I love all the videos from Lebanon!!! its fantastic and so incredible nice to just see people just enjoying themselves …

  30. Mücahit Çelik

    13.5 yemeğimiz var arabbian mutfağından fakat bunlar Doğu Roma Bizans mutfağı Türk mutfağında Bizans’ın yeri ve önemi aynısı demek ki Araplar gelen değil.hattuşa atti samöerian egyyeaptkhnyn biziz.

  35. Hannah Kayee

    I wish I would've paid attention in geography… gotta google where all these places are. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Lebanon is on my top 3!

  40. Alessia Ardizzi

    I'm Italian, when you said your wife was from Tailand the guy understood" Italian" 😂 I think so because he started to speak Italian :" ah! Italiani! Precisi!" LOL

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