Le Goû of Loyalty

So many restaurants are closing in Beirut, it makes me really sad.. I still have beautiful pictures of Salmontini that I wanted to show you, and I recall so well the quiet and fresh mornings at Goû in Ashrafieh (post here), the busy afternoons at Café La Joie in Saifi (here) or the convivial dinners at Zabad in Zaytounay Bay (here). They are all gone, gone with the wind, and I should probably archive the photos, delete the posts and update my blog, get rid of the history of those fulfilling moments, like they usually do with old houses in Beirut… But I won’t… They are precious antiquities of past instants in this chaotic city, and I won’t give them away. Dear Beirut, life is not always about the here and now, it’s also about what we have experienced so far… It is somehow about loyalty to what we had in the past.