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'''Beirut Health Store'''
'''Beirut Health Store'''
*Sheikh Elias Gaspard Street X Mahatma Gandhi Street, Hamra; 01-743020, 03-713086
*Sheikh Elias Gaspard Street X Mahatma Gandhi Street, Hamra; 01-743020, 03-713086
*opening hours: Monday - Friday 10.30 am - 6pm, Saturday 10.30 - 2pm




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Please note that even though all The Body Shop products are cruelty-free [http://www.thebodyshop.com/values/AgainstAnimalTesting.aspx according] [http://www.peta.org.uk/blog/shop-online-at-the-body-shop-and-10-per-cent-will-go-to-peta/ to BUAV standards], the company is owned by L'Oréal which is ''not'' cruelty free.
Please note that even though all The Body Shop products are cruelty-free [http://www.thebodyshop.com/values/AgainstAnimalTesting.aspx according] [http://www.peta.org.uk/blog/shop-online-at-the-body-shop-and-10-per-cent-will-go-to-peta/ to BUAV standards], the company is owned by L'Oréal which is ''not'' cruelty free.


= Restaurants =
== ''Vegetarian'' ==
== ''Vegan-friendly'' ==
'''King Fries'''
Hamra Street X Nehme Yafet Street, Hamra
opening hours: closes after 1am
This little restaurant offers different kinds of sandwiches common in Lebanese cuisine. According to staff, the French fries with hummus and veg sandwich is vegan by itself, and the falafel sandwich and the sandwich of oven-baked potato cubes with cilantro and veg can be veganized by subsituting the sauce (tarator) with hummus. Ask the staff to do so when you place your order and they will do it as the people working there are very nice. You can also get plates of fries and falafel, but again don't forget about replacing the sauce. They provide vegan and very delicious ketchup and a hot sauce on the table.
'''Snack Bilal Ghalayeeny سناك بلال غالاييني'''
Emile Edde Street X Omar Bin Abd al-Azeez Street, Hamra
open 24/7
This snack bar sells Manqoushe, some kind of pizza eaten mostly for breakfast, but also at any other time of day. According to staff the Manaqeesh (plural of Manqoushe) with veg and the one with Za'atar, a mixture of thyme or origan with sesame seeds and more spices, are vegan and so are the spinach turnovers.
The Manaqeesh are all baked in the same oven and it could happen that yours will get in touch with a meat or a cheese Manqoushe or be handled with the same stick the meat and cheese pizzas are handled with.
This place has no seating.


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Revision as of 21:28, 29 April 2015

Beirut has only one explicitly vegetarian restaurant (as of April 2015), but vegan dishes abound in traditional Beiruti cuisine and fresh fruits and veg and other vegan staples are always available in massive amounts. Said restaurant is at the same time a vegetarian organic shop, the only one there is in Beirut, but there are many health food shops and conventional supermarkets that stock items which are very helpful for a vegan lifestyle (from soy drink and faux cheeses to vegan and cruelty-free toiletries).

{{#if: == Vegetarian and organic ==

The Olive Tree

The Olive Tree is Beirut's first explicitly vegetarian organic shop, which also operates a delivery service and a small restaurant area. They stock packed food, a lot of it imported from Germany, but also some local produce, and some fresh fruit and vegetables. Their assortment includes chickpea flour for vegan omelets, soy, almond and oat drinks, tofu, and they're working on stocking nutritional yeast. Usually, they also have fresh pastries and cookies on offer. The shop owners and staff are very committed and eager to fulfil the wishes of the local vegetarians, vegans and foodies.


Vegetarian, fair trade and mixed organic-conventional

Les Terroirs du Liban

This boutique belongs to Fair Trade Lebanon, a partner of Fairtrade International. Their aim is to promote fairer business relations by selling products made by Lebanese cooperatives for fairer remuneration and to provide further support. The shop mostly sells traditional Lebanese staple food like pulses and grains, jams, pickles, syrups, olive oil and wine (ask if it's vegan), but also beautifully simple vegan (excluding animal testing) soap bars. Visit their website to see all their products. Their olive oil and wine are certified organic and more of their products are in the process of labelling. Some products carry the international Fair Trade label. Sometimes products are out of stock as they are not produced in huge masses, so it's advisable to call ahead.


Organic

Beit As-Soha

  • Jean Dominique Ayoub Street X Afred Naccache Street, Hôtel Dieu; 01-398366

This is Beirut's oldest organic shop and one of its biggest. They mostly have local produce from fruit and vegetables to nuts and conserves, but also stock a wide range of imported products from spices to rice and vegan detergents. One nice feature is that they stock Italian organic rice which is difficult to find as most of organic rice travelled half the planet from Thailand via the US to Lebanon, thus weighing heavily on your ecological footprint. The local produce doesn't carry any organic label, since the shop owner has decided to skip them after carrying different labels for some years. Special treats are their vegan artisanal cookies and muffins.


A New Earth Organic & Eco-Living Store

  • Zahret El-Ihsan Street X As-Salam School Street, Mar Mitr / Achrafieh


Healthy Basket

  • Yacoubian building, Block A, Kuwait Street X Venus Street, Caracas / Hamra


Beirut Health Store

  • Sheikh Elias Gaspard Street X Mahatma Gandhi Street, Hamra; 01-743020, 03-713086
  • opening hours: Monday - Friday 10.30 am - 6pm, Saturday 10.30 - 2pm


Beit Al Afia

  • Cairo Street X Souraty Street, Hamra; 01-755447


Macrodette Organic

  • 75 Jean Dominique Ayoub Street (in the bend), Hôtel Dieu; 01-613015, 03-636259


Al-Marej Organic Food Store

  • Abd al-Wahab al-Inglizi Street, Achrafieh


Bioland

  • Athens Street X Zohrani Street, Sioufi


La Boulangère Bio

  • Selim Bustros Street X Choukri Assali, St Nicolas / Achrafieh


Mixed organic-conventional

Spinney's / سبيبيس

  • Achrafieh Mar Mitr branch, Alfred Naccache Street X Mar Mitr Street
  • Achrafieh Tital Beirut Building branch, Achrafieh Street X Furn El Hayek Street
  • Achrafieh Alexandre branch, Adib Eshaq Street X Kaairallah Khairallah Street
  • Jnah branch, Khalil Moutrane Street X Venezuela Street
  • Hazmieh branch (greater Beirut), Hamieh Road X Elias El Hrawi Road

Spinney's operates conventional supermarkets, or rather French-style hypermarchés considering their size, selling a wide range of products. They stock organic local fresh fruit and veg from BioMass and Le Potager Bio and have an organic section of packed imported goods. They also sell vegan margarine (Pure Dairy Free and/or Earth Balance) and soap (Suma) in the respective sections. In some branches (at least in Hazmieh) they stock pasta made by the great Italian cooperative IRIS. Especially the Hazmieh branch has a wide variety of organic products in an extensive organic section (which unfortunately gets cleared for during the Christmas season to make room for such products). As for fair trade products they have at least coffee and vegan chocolate. Most noticeable are their faux meats, sausages, and cheeses (slices and Tofutti cream cheese), which unfortunately are hidden in the dairy and meat sections which makes them difficult to find. Staff tries to help, but usually they don't know those products.


Carrefour / كارفور

  • Beirut City Centre Mall, Hamieh Road X Elias El Hrawi Road, Hazmieh (greater Beirut)


Marqet [1]

This supermarket has two little organic sections, one offering imported goods like soy, grain and nut milk, rice and soy cuisine (Bjorg), tofu, vegan stock, agave syrup, vegan chocolate (VIANA), and the other consists of local BioMass products such as spices and oil and they also have BioMass fresh fruits and veg. Outside those sections they sell fair trade brown sugar (not sure if bones were used in its production) and vegan French-style bread from Beirut's La Boulangère Bio and vegan toast from the Chouf's Organic Bakery.


COOP

  • Makdessi branch: Makdessi Street X Nehme Yafet Street, Hamra


Farmers' markets (mixed organic-conventional)

Souk El Tayeb

  • Beirut Souks, Tripoli Street, Downtown


Toiletries

Please see the shop descriptions above for places that also stock toiletries in their wider assortment.


Lush


The Body Shop

  • Al Hamra branch: Al Hamra Mall, Hamra Street
  • Verdun branch: Verdun 730 Mall, Verdun Street X Ain El-Tineh
  • Jnah branch: Spinney's Jnah, Khalil Moutrane Street X Venezuela Street

Please note that even though all The Body Shop products are cruelty-free according to BUAV standards, the company is owned by L'Oréal which is not cruelty free. |

Vegan-friendly shops

Vegetarian and organic

The Olive Tree

The Olive Tree is Beirut's first explicitly vegetarian organic shop, which also operates a delivery service and a small restaurant area. They stock packed food, a lot of it imported from Germany, but also some local produce, and some fresh fruit and vegetables. Their assortment includes chickpea flour for vegan omelets, soy, almond and oat drinks, tofu, and they're working on stocking nutritional yeast. Usually, they also have fresh pastries and cookies on offer. The shop owners and staff are very committed and eager to fulfil the wishes of the local vegetarians, vegans and foodies.


Vegetarian, fair trade and mixed organic-conventional

Les Terroirs du Liban

This boutique belongs to Fair Trade Lebanon, a partner of Fairtrade International. Their aim is to promote fairer business relations by selling products made by Lebanese cooperatives for fairer remuneration and to provide further support. The shop mostly sells traditional Lebanese staple food like pulses and grains, jams, pickles, syrups, olive oil and wine (ask if it's vegan), but also beautifully simple vegan (excluding animal testing) soap bars. Visit their website to see all their products. Their olive oil and wine are certified organic and more of their products are in the process of labelling. Some products carry the international Fair Trade label. Sometimes products are out of stock as they are not produced in huge masses, so it's advisable to call ahead.


Organic

Beit As-Soha

  • Jean Dominique Ayoub Street X Afred Naccache Street, Hôtel Dieu; 01-398366

This is Beirut's oldest organic shop and one of its biggest. They mostly have local produce from fruit and vegetables to nuts and conserves, but also stock a wide range of imported products from spices to rice and vegan detergents. One nice feature is that they stock Italian organic rice which is difficult to find as most of organic rice travelled half the planet from Thailand via the US to Lebanon, thus weighing heavily on your ecological footprint. The local produce doesn't carry any organic label, since the shop owner has decided to skip them after carrying different labels for some years. Special treats are their vegan artisanal cookies and muffins.


A New Earth Organic & Eco-Living Store

  • Zahret El-Ihsan Street X As-Salam School Street, Mar Mitr / Achrafieh


Healthy Basket

  • Yacoubian building, Block A, Kuwait Street X Venus Street, Caracas / Hamra


Beirut Health Store

  • Sheikh Elias Gaspard Street X Mahatma Gandhi Street, Hamra; 01-743020, 03-713086
  • opening hours: Monday - Friday 10.30 am - 6pm, Saturday 10.30 - 2pm


Beit Al Afia

  • Cairo Street X Souraty Street, Hamra; 01-755447


Macrodette Organic

  • 75 Jean Dominique Ayoub Street (in the bend), Hôtel Dieu; 01-613015, 03-636259


Al-Marej Organic Food Store

  • Abd al-Wahab al-Inglizi Street, Achrafieh


Bioland

  • Athens Street X Zohrani Street, Sioufi


La Boulangère Bio

  • Selim Bustros Street X Choukri Assali, St Nicolas / Achrafieh


Mixed organic-conventional

Spinney's / سبيبيس

  • Achrafieh Mar Mitr branch, Alfred Naccache Street X Mar Mitr Street
  • Achrafieh Tital Beirut Building branch, Achrafieh Street X Furn El Hayek Street
  • Achrafieh Alexandre branch, Adib Eshaq Street X Kaairallah Khairallah Street
  • Jnah branch, Khalil Moutrane Street X Venezuela Street
  • Hazmieh branch (greater Beirut), Hamieh Road X Elias El Hrawi Road

Spinney's operates conventional supermarkets, or rather French-style hypermarchés considering their size, selling a wide range of products. They stock organic local fresh fruit and veg from BioMass and Le Potager Bio and have an organic section of packed imported goods. They also sell vegan margarine (Pure Dairy Free and/or Earth Balance) and soap (Suma) in the respective sections. In some branches (at least in Hazmieh) they stock pasta made by the great Italian cooperative IRIS. Especially the Hazmieh branch has a wide variety of organic products in an extensive organic section (which unfortunately gets cleared for during the Christmas season to make room for such products). As for fair trade products they have at least coffee and vegan chocolate. Most noticeable are their faux meats, sausages, and cheeses (slices and Tofutti cream cheese), which unfortunately are hidden in the dairy and meat sections which makes them difficult to find. Staff tries to help, but usually they don't know those products.


Carrefour / كارفور

  • Beirut City Centre Mall, Hamieh Road X Elias El Hrawi Road, Hazmieh (greater Beirut)


Marqet [2]

This supermarket has two little organic sections, one offering imported goods like soy, grain and nut milk, rice and soy cuisine (Bjorg), tofu, vegan stock, agave syrup, vegan chocolate (VIANA), and the other consists of local BioMass products such as spices and oil and they also have BioMass fresh fruits and veg. Outside those sections they sell fair trade brown sugar (not sure if bones were used in its production) and vegan French-style bread from Beirut's La Boulangère Bio and vegan toast from the Chouf's Organic Bakery.


COOP

  • Makdessi branch: Makdessi Street X Nehme Yafet Street, Hamra


Farmers' markets (mixed organic-conventional)

Souk El Tayeb

  • Beirut Souks, Tripoli Street, Downtown


Toiletries

Please see the shop descriptions above for places that also stock toiletries in their wider assortment.


Lush


The Body Shop

  • Al Hamra branch: Al Hamra Mall, Hamra Street
  • Verdun branch: Verdun 730 Mall, Verdun Street X Ain El-Tineh
  • Jnah branch: Spinney's Jnah, Khalil Moutrane Street X Venezuela Street

Please note that even though all The Body Shop products are cruelty-free according to BUAV standards, the company is owned by L'Oréal which is not cruelty free. }}

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