Meat the Fish, Saifi Village, Beirut. (Credit: Cordon Courtine/L'Orient Today)
By no means can anyone deny that Meat the Fish is a Lebanese success story. That is, in the financial sense of the word, at least, but also in the marketing sense, given they were able to attract millennial and Generation Z social media A-listers. The restaurant now operates three different branches: the original one in Saifi Village, a beach venue in Batroun and a seasonal spot that opens sporadically in Faqra Club — with a fourth one in London, smack in the middle of Chelsea, on Cadogan Gardens. Plans have materialized for a Dubai launch as well, in the Jumeirah Marsa al-Arab hotel this September, and later on in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, too.The owner, Karim Arakji, had originally planned to open Meat the Fish with British chef Mitch Tonks onboard, but after the country’s precarious political situation took a turn for the worse, Tonks...
By no means can anyone deny that Meat the Fish is a Lebanese success story. That is, in the financial sense of the word, at least, but also in the marketing sense, given they were able to attract millennial and Generation Z social media A-listers. The restaurant now operates three different branches: the original one in Saifi Village, a beach venue in Batroun and a seasonal spot that opens...
