Masira مسيرةBeity بيتي
Every journey deserves a home.
In Arabic, masira is a journey and beity is my home. Here the two words meet, and the journey is finally given a door to walk through.
Where we come from, hospitality is not a service but a covenant. Coffee is poured before a guest is asked why they came, and no one is ever hurried from the table. That is the standard this café keeps.
By night, Beity is Chef Ryan Fakih’s MICHELIN-recommended Lebanese dining room. By day, the same room belongs to Masira: coffee, matcha, and tea, served with pastries from that same kitchen, Thursday to Sunday.
Beity means my home.
Recommended in the MICHELIN Guide, and honoured with its 2024 Exceptional Cocktails Award. Chef Ryan Fakih trained at Le Cordon Bleu and cooked at Alinea before opening Chicago’s first and only Lebanese tasting menu.
By evening, the room is his. By day, his kitchen sends out the pastries served alongside Masira’s coffee.
“My plan isn’t to cook traditional Lebanese food. It’s to reinvent the wheel and provide a fresh view on Lebanese cuisine.”
It began in an apartment,
with the door left open.
Two friends, a pot of coffee, a door left open. Masira began in Abu and Ramzy’s apartment and travelled through Chicago’s galleries and museums, raising over $30,000 for Palestine, Sudan, and Gaza along the way.
Ramzy, Palestinian and a medical student, composes every drink with a clinician’s precision. Abu, a travel photographer, returned from 27 countries with one conviction: the finest luxury is being made to feel expected.
Pull up a chair. You were expected.
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