Assaha Restaurant

Specialties

Straight from the Lebanese alleys, Assaha Village is a unique and rustic restaurant that could also be doubled as a cultural centre or a small museum. Its arched passages, coarse stone walls hung with artwork and traditional weaponry, sunken lights and bucolic woodwork together make it a thoroughly out of the ordinary place to dine at.

Freshly prepared food is the rule in the kitchen and they serve a fine variety of hot and cold appetizers, or ‘mezze,’ as the Levantines call them, including the likes of fattoush, a salad made from toasted or fried pieces of pita bread combined with mixed greens and other vegetables, and of course hummus. Amongst hot mezzes meat pies and spiced chicken wings are extremely popular. Follow that with lamb cutlets or with a perfectly grilled fillet steak.

If you are in the mood for a smoke, then a hubble-​bubble experience with some traditional tobacco could make your day.

History

Established in 2000.

The Assaha International Group (AIG), which, starting from the situation of the Lebanese tourism nowadays, especially the sector of services of culture, education, tourism and tourist sites in general, and in order to revive the nostalgia found in the mind of each human being, whatever his allegiance, desires and aspirations are, we thought of establishing a tourist company dealing with tourist projects in their various aspects, from idea and design, then execution and then project management. Then the idea was materialized and developed, and resulted in the first tourist project of the company, Lebanon’s traditional Village «Assaha», in Beirut, airport Avenue, area space: 10 878 m2.

The project in Lebanon comprises a tourist and cultural center with local feature. The designer and creator, manager of «Group», architect Jamal MAKKE was inspired by the book of the Lebanese writer Anis Freiha «Lebanese Village — A Civilization Menaced of Extinction’ in which he warned against the extin

Meet the Business Owner

Jamal M.

Business Owner

General Manager Jamal Makki

Born in Kuwait in 1962

— Holder of a diploma in architecture awarded to him in 1987 by the Lebanese University’s Faculty of fine Arts, Branch I

— After his graduation, he founded along with a group of architects, a private office under the name of «Kibaa for Urban Studies and Architectural Design»

— Participated to the foundation of «Sanabel for Urban Studies and Architectural Design» and is currently its general manager.

— General manager of «Sanabel for Urban Studies and Architectural Design», the «Lebanese Arab Corporation for Tading and Contracting», joint stock company, and the «Lebanese Arab Corporation for Touristic Services», joint stock company all subsidiaries of Jam’yyat Al Mabarrat Al Khairiah’s association presided by the prominent religious authority Ayatollah Seyyed Mohamed Hussein Fadlullah.

— Secretary of the productive institutions’ committee of Jam’yyat Al Mabarrat Al Khairiah’s association.

— Counselor of real estate and legal affairs.

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