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After Luxury Boutiques, Luxury Restaurant Brands Come To Beirut
April 1, 2011 · Mustapha Hamoui
The Wall Street Journal reports on the “carefully planned operation” by Solidere to bring in luxury brand restaurants to Beirut’s Central District:
The next phase is the launching of three connected restaurants opposite the Momo site by Yannick Alléno, the three-star Michelin chef from Le Meurice in Paris. At the end of this year, Joël Robuchon will open one of his L’Atelier de Robuchon. Davide Bisetto, the two-star Michelin chef from Corsica, will also be launching a new restaurant. And Gordon Campbell Gray, the British hotelier who opened designer hotel Le Gray in the Lebanese capital in late 2009, is said to have signed a deal this week with Zuma, the major Japanese-inspired restaurant group which has already opened branches in the Middle East.
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