Dine Like a Boss: Without Breaking the Bank

Cebu is known to offer a wide variety of cuisines, from the typical Filipino food, the popular Cebu lechon to the different Mexican, American, Vietnamese, Japanese or Korean dishes. You can see different kinds of restaurants lining up the streets of Cebu everywhere you go. This love month, our iSTORYA team visits different restaurants in Cebu to try out the best places you can go to, to spend time with your love ones.

First on the list is Beqaa, a Lebanese kitchen where contemporary Middle Eastern cooking meets traditional flavors.



2013 was the year when The Abaca Group introduced Lebanese cuisine to the Cebuanos with the opening of Beqaa, located at the 2nd Floor of design center in A.S. Fortuna St. Banilad. Derived from East Lebanon’s fertile valley and most important farming region, Beqaa offers traditional Lebanese cuisine fit for the Filipino palate. Their menu consists of a wide array of vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes ranging from kebabs, mezze and stews of chicken, lamb to beef and seafood cooked to perfection and topped with flavourful herbs and spices. Beqaa is a pork-free restaurant.



The dim-lighted restaurant, with hardwood floors and an open kitchen area, provides a perfect romantic ambience for couples. Aside from tables good for two, they also provide long tables and wooden chairs for a family or "barkada" dinner treat. The crew are very welcoming, with sincere smiles on their faces. The servers introduce each food with precision, giving you an idea on what you are about to put in your mouth. As soon as we were seated comfortably in our table, our server offered us their welcome mocktail of pomegranate juice with soda water, followed by their appetizers of Chicken Liver spread in flat crackers, homemade Saj bread and signature dips of yoghurt, garlic and chili.