Zaher El Laymoun Café
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The Zaher El Laymoun shopfront at dusk: the green sign with the café name in Arabic above lit windows and wooden shutters

زهر الليمون

Zahr el Laymoun

A café in the heart of Haret Hreik — coffee, saj and shisha under warm light, on ground that was once all lemon groves.

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Since the groves

حكاية البساتين

Before the streets, this whole stretch of the southern suburb was lemon groves. The name keeps them: زهر الليمون — lemon blossom.

What that means at the table is unhurried. Turkish coffee comes on an oak tray turned in the house colours, its wells cut for the cup and the water glass, the wordmark burned in between them. Tea is Ajami, poured by the pot for two, four or eight — because nobody here comes alone.

Coffee, saj off the dome, a nargileh, and someone singing by the glass wall until late.

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The house three

A nargileh with a brass stem and a deep green glass base on a walnut table, hose coiled beside it

أراكيل

Shisha

M3assal or Ajami, carried to your chair and kept lit. A fresh head whenever the table wants one.

450,000 – 800,000 L.L.
Turkish coffee poured from a brass rakwe into a white finjan on the engraved oak tray

قهوة تركية

Turkish Coffee Raqwa

Brass rakwe, white finjan, water on the side. Small, medium or large.

150,000 – 250,000 L.L.
A glass pot of amber Ajami tea with two glasses in silvered holders

شاي عجمي

Shay Ajami

By the pot, in silvered holders — for two, four, or a table of eight.

200,000 – 600,000 L.L.

Two rooms and a terrace

المكان

The place

Five steps from the counter to the terrace. Scroll and walk it.

The coffee counter, with shelves of bottles and jars behind it
The lounge: round wooden tables and rattan armchairs
Rows of ornate nargileh pipes lined up on shelves
The terrace at night, warm gold light behind the glass wall
A singer with a microphone facing the room

الكاونتر

  1. 01

    The counter

    Espresso, the rakwe on the flame, and the day's juice all come off this one counter at the front.

  2. 02

    The lounge

    Round wooden tables and rattan armchairs deep enough to sit in for two hours. Nobody rushes you out.

  3. 03

    The shisha wall

    The nargileh line up on the shelf in rows, waiting. M3assal or Ajami, brought to your chair.

  4. 04

    The terrace

    Through the glass wall at the back, where the gold light and most of the noise come from.

  5. 05

    The evening

    Most nights someone is singing out there, and the room ends up clapping along.

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زورونا

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Where حارة حريك — الشارع العريض Haret Hreik, Beirut's southern suburb
Phone 71 479 961WhatsApp on the same number
Instagram @zaher.ellaymounMusic nights and new drinks are posted here first
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