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Super Food Ideas
Italian-style

Braised beef ragù with penne pasta. 30.

Fun, fresh and full of ideas, the lighter and brighter Super Food Index still has everything you love with plenty of great new stuff.

Dips ideas · 9
  • Warm Mexican cheese dip
  • Blue cheese and onion dip
  • Warm cheese dip
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Aura Index · recalculated every 60s

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Two hundred cafés, bars and eating rooms — ranked live by a community index, not by stale five-star reviews. Open what the room is actually doing.

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The faces behind the food.

Short interviews from the pass, plus playlists curated by Lebanese foodies and socialites. Watch the kitchen breathe before you book a seat at it.

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Chef Tarek Alameddine
▶ Chef’s Table
6 min · behind the oven
Chef Tarek Alameddine
Sesame Kitchen
Chef Léa Boutros
▶ Chef’s Table
8 min · the bar pass
Chef Léa Boutros
Goldfinch Room
Chef Rami Najjar
▶ Chef’s Table
11 min · kitchen line
Chef Rami Najjar
Cèdre & Sel
Curation by local tastemakers

Playlists from people whose tables you’ve been trying to get into.

Nayla Khoury
Nayla Khoury
@nayla.dines
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Karim Saade
Karim Saade
@beirut.bites
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Zeina Maalouf
Zeina Maalouf
@diaspora.diaries
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Pick a room.

Ten sections of the city, one index. From an 18th-floor rooftop to a 3am manouche window — every room, ranked live, filed in its own dispatch.

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The house pick.

Every Monday the editors file one lead pick and two companions — the rooms we tell our friends to book before the week is out.

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Goldfinch Room
Pick of the week
Gemmayzeh · 6PM — 3AM

Goldfinch Room

Speakeasy energy, absolutely chaotic Thursdays.

On the editors’ file.

A standing shortlist — rooms the house keeps sending friends to, across every section of the index.

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Three signals,
one living index.

The Aura Index recalculates every sixty seconds from three independent community signals. A packed room with stale buzz loses to the quiet corner that is, right now, going off.

The formula

Aura = (Votes × Recency) ÷ Capacity

01

Energy Match

Live capacity, dwell-time and social check-ins. Answers a single question: is the room dead, warm, or absolute fire?

02

Aesthetic Audit

Community-voted clips of interior, lighting and the main-character seat. Judged by the room, not the decorator.

03

Social Sentiment

Meme-based reviews in lieu of star ratings. A well-chosen GIF, in our experience, says more than eight hundred words.

Going off, presently.

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