In year 2002, in a small basement in Vračar, we created the Byblos, house of Lebanese cuisine – a place where you can hear different languages, where you can smoke ‘Drina’ and nargile, and enjoy delightful food and oriental dancing. By subtle anthropological approach, sisters Jelena and Katarina Kovačević have been bringing Lebanese culture closer to Belgrade, thus creating one of the symbols of the city we have wished for. Being among those thirty people at that time, seemed like you were in London or Paris. The restaurant was named after the oldest permanently inhabited town in the world, situated on the north of Beirut, ‘Paris of Middle East’.
When the old house in Vračar, where the restaurant used to be, was torn down, we moved to 6, Nebojšina street, into a new building in Vračar, hidden between tree tops of ‘Karađorđev park’. The chef of the new Byblos is Deni Chehwan, whose specialties are remembered by Beirut’s guests of chain ‘Al Balad’.
Since 2008, the Byblos is a general representative and distributer of wine for wine house “Kefraya”, one of three best known wine producers in Lebanon. Long tradition of wine production in this part of Middle East, with its roots in Phoenicia, and with domination of French culture in one historical period, makes these wines particularly interesting and of excellent quality.

We have prepared for you some fifty chairs and several tables less, the terrace in the park, the most delightful food, the best Lebanese wines, the most aromatic tobacco, Arabic coffee, oriental dancing and, naturally, Belgrade wide smile and spirit, which we managed to maintain…