Showing posts with label #Beirut. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #Beirut. Show all posts

Monday, 24 July 2017

BUSINESS AND PLEASURE, AT LE GRAY HOTEL BEIRUT





Few days ago, the renowned Le Gray Hotel in Beirut, unveiled its distinguished and glamorous events and conferences spaces, complementing it with their lobby lounge, an exhibition venue and 16 new guestrooms.



For impressive significant meetings, launches, VIP events, weddings or any of your prevalent celebrations, you have none other than the stylish, Le Gray Hotel, in a central location at downtown Beirut, offering style with pioneering facilities and a professional and experienced team, taking care of every detail to create events that are pure perfection.

The fresh additions include The Boardroom, fitting up to 20 persons, The Muse Room, perfect for both business and social meetings, The Screening Room, a mini cinema accommodating 53 viewers with advanced high-tech cutting edge equipment, The Atrium, furnishing an artistic backdrop for arty exhibitions and Le Grand Salon, a 400sqm ballroom with a fascinating led light color changing ceiling.

The Screening Room
The Boardroom
The Muse Room

Host your next big thing in elegance at Le Gray, at their fabulous spaces, embracing yourself and your guests with beautifully designed venues…You will definitely impress!

I will leave you to enjoy several pictures captured at the event, as well as the official press release by Le Gray.

















LE GRAY, BEIRUT UNVEILS

ITS EVENTS AND CONFERENCES SPACES

Press Release – 13 July 2017 – During an event held in its new lobby, Le Gray, Beirut unveiled its
Events and Conferences Spaces which is part of an extension project including additionally a lobby
lounge, an exhibition venue and 16 new guestrooms.
With this addition and a prime central location on the very entrance of Beirut Downtown, the flagship
of Campbell Gray Hotels enlarges the scope of its business to attract the MICE market in addition to
the leisure and business markets. The project was overseen by Interior Designer Galal Mahmoud in
close collaboration with Gordon Campbell Gray.
The new guestrooms complement existing accommodation in the same contemporary-classic style,
incorporating light-filled interiors overlooking the bustling city.
The extended lobby area underneath the atrium and its new Lobby Lounge provide a welcoming
space where guests can unwind with family and friends or catch up on work. A new pedestrian
entrance will welcome guests into the new space directly on Weygand Street.
The new facilities are sure to impress Le Gray’s loyal clientele and attract new guests with additional
spaces. The Boardroom, a dramatic 20-people meeting business venue; The Muse Room, a multi-
function venue equally great for business meetings and social gatherings; The Screening Room, a
brand new 53-seat mini cinema fitted out with state-of- the-art audio-visual equipment and
comfortable seating -4k projection and Dolby Atmos sound system; The Atrium, an exhibition and art
venue at the heart of the central atrium and Le Grand Salon, a 400sqm banquet facility with a unique,
dazzling led light ceiling.
Le Gray, Beirut burst onto the hotel scene in 2009 and has become one of the city’s hottest hubs at
which to stay and be seen. Located in the heart of Beirut on Martyrs’ Square, close to the business
district and near to the city’s prime attractions, the hotel will now feature 103 spacious rooms and
suites, with two Presidential Suites sharing the fifth floor encompassing generous private terraces.
The hotel current facilities include the glamorous rooftop restaurant, Indigo on the Roof, the tranquil
PureGray Spa, as well as a state-of- the-art gym.
With the current additions, Le Gray, Beirut will have completed the canvas, becoming thus Downtown
first and only hotel with such facilities.


For further information:
Rita C. Saad, Director of Marketing and Public Relations
Tel: 01962895 | Mob : 03851595 | e-mail : ritasaad@legray.com





Monday, 29 May 2017

MED Restaurant



Duo has a new addition to its family, and they named it MED!

Located in City Center, in Hazmieh, you can either enjoy your time there in its trendy interior, or at its spacious, but light lacking dim terrace, and get pampered by their friendly and professional staff.

Even though, MED, is the abbreviation of Mediterranean, still this new restaurant has much more to offer than just oriental Lebanese food, alongside a salad bar, for those who desire!

We tried quite a few items and were quite satisfied of how they performed with our taste buds!


A beautiful aromatic start with the MED CAKE GARLIC BREAD, a large freshly baked loaf, stuffed with creamy garlic, emmental cheese and herbs. This insanely delicious appetizer will forever change your perception of the traditional garlic bread! A must have over and over again, and over again!

MED CAKE GARLIC BREAD


Mixed with sweet chilli sauce, the SHRIMP TAPAS, are soft and flavorful, served with bread slices, and so were the CREAMY SPINACH TAPAS, with chunks of mushrooms and parmesan cheese. Just spread a spoonful of that luscious dip onto a a piece of bread and you cannot be any happier!

The QUINOA TABBOULEH SALAD had a distinguished amazing secret ingredient, or maybe not! Fresh, light, perfectly seasoned and simply wonderful!

Both the GREEK PIZZA and THE PIZZA BEEF PEPPERONI had a thin dough with a moderate flavor.

GREEK PIZZA

BEEF PEPPERONI

An assortment of grilled veal, makanek and tawouk skewers, served with French fries,  is what they call their MIXED GRILLED PLATTER.  Completely fresh, using the highest quality ingredients.


In cute small pots, hot and straight from the kitchen, they served us BEEF STROGANOFF, which I think that the chef should revisit the recipe, but the CHICKEN CREAMY MUSHROOM SERVED WITH RICE, and in pots, as well, was delicious.

BEEF STROGANOFF

Desserts, desserts, desserts and more desserts! We felt like little children in a candy store!

A splendid crispy APPLE PIE, an explosion of chocolate cake with chocolate ice cream and caramel sauce create an intensely rich and mouthwatering DARK CHOCOLAT VOLCANO. Filled with melted chocolate and topped with vanilla ice cream, and then crushed to share OUR SPECIAL MUFFIN, with smiles on our faces! The MED ORIENTAL TWIST, with sahlab ice cream, a renovated recipe of our traditional maamoul, a warm soothing taste of the orient!




MED has so much more delightful items to savour, from starters, salads, pizzas, pastas, burgers, sandwiches, a kids menu and a variety of original main courses, which is worth a second and a third visit, if not more, to dig into those pleasures.

Sunday, 22 January 2017

Sunday Brunch at Le Gray's Indigo on the Roof





Indigo on the Roof at Le Gray Hotel is anything but gray! It's vivid, colorful, bright and glamorous!

On Sundays, when you're bored with typical ordinary restaurants or if you feel like trying something new, then Indigo on the Roof is a definite must try experience!


Restaurant Entrance
The venue is so bright

Overlooking beloved Beirut

Kick off with a good breakfast and pamper yourself all the way up to an exquisite lunch!

Bread, cheeses, pastries, cold cuts and all the necessities of a fulfilling breakfast are displayed with menu items of different selections of eggs platters from Benedict, Florentine, Royale, omelet to free range eggs.


Cheese Station  
Cold Cuts


Choose your donut
Crunchy & Flaky

I surely had great eggs benedicts but never did love one as much as the ones served here!

The fresh tasteful eggs, the buttery aromatic sauce holondais on a perfectly crunchy muffin.


Just beautiful
You'll fall in love with that buttery aroma


Now let's talk about lunch!


Nothing could be better than a warm soup on a cold and windy day. 

The roasted pumpkin and cinnamon soup was flavorful yet light so as not to kill your appetite, that you would be most in need of at this generous restaurant!



Roasted Pumpkin and Cinnamon Soup

A beautiful spread of fresh tasteful sushi and sashimi, smoked salmon and a variety of delightful salads from seared tuna, chicken and spinach quinoa, turkey ham and grilled pineapple, beetroot and goat cheese to grilled vegetables. And for those who always like to be faithful to our Lebanese delicacies, tabouleh, fattouch, raheb, hummus, moutsbbal...will be there for you too!

Masterpeice

Seared for your taste buds
DIY

Simply Beautiful
We're addicted to sushi


The fajitas station offers both chicken and meat wraps filled with the genuine taste of Mexico and Spain...now that I have mentioned it, I should have had more of those fabulous fajitas!


Oh my fajitas


At that point, we required the menu again to choose our main dish of Char grilled pork sausages, Garlic and rosemary lamb cutlets, Pan seared seabass, 5 spices duck breast, Bacon and brie Burger and for the faithful, the Lebanese specialty of the day.

Hesitant, doubtful, confused and lost is how we felt. We wanted to have them all, but logic prevailed and funny how we both ended up selecting the same candidate!

It came in a pan, sitting there like a king, accompanied by a huge side of fries, The Bacon and brie Burger!

Bacon & Brie Burger

This burger is very photogenic


The crispy bacon and the almost melted brie complimented the exquisite meat to procreate the divine burger.

I'm not letting go


The glorious dessert buffet offers you a great number of items to speed up your sugar rush!



Cakes, puddings, profiteroles, mousses, macarons, a chocolate fountain, a waffle station...you name it and it's there!


So many options
Galette des rois


I can never say no to red velvet



Even more options

Macarons

Waiting in line to be dipped



Oh, by the way, if you are thinking what to do with your kids so you are able to totally enjoy this feast, then worry no more, as it's also been taken care of and a special kids recreational area is devoted especially for your little ones; just make sure to ask for it upon making your reservation!

We always wrap-up great meals with Coffee


In one of the corners of my mind, there's a constant reminder telling  me to visit Indigo on the Roof again.

The great service where everyone is treated like VIPs, the perfect food that you not only enjoy but appreciate as well. 

Simply irresistible!