Belated V-day + Anniversary Celebration

Well, calling it a celebration is a wee-bit exaggerating. More like a dinner date I would say.

14th Feb was a public holiday in Beirut…well, kinda. 14th Feb this year marks Lebanon’s ex-Prime Minister, Hariri’s 3yrs death anniversary. Thus most of the offices particularly those situated at downtown area were closed.

SOMETHING & I wanted to make use of the day off to celebrate V-day by strolling along the corniche and perhaps find a nice seafood restaurant facing the Pigeon Rock for a cozy, romantic dinner.

But sadly, we woke up only to find that it was pouring outside. Thinking the sky might clear up later in the day, we merely hang around in the hotel room, snuggled under the covers and watched Entourage Season 3 on our lappies for the whole afternoon.

Well, the sky didn’t clear up that day. It continued to rain well into the night. There goes our plan to stroll along the corniche, and there goes our plan to find a nice restaurant facing Pigeon Rock. All we did was get hooked on Entourage & grabbed quick dinner at Nando’s along Hamra.

To make up for the lost opportunity to celebrate V-day in a more romantic fashion, we decided to head out for a nice dinner date yesterday which happens to coincide with our 4yr 7mths anniversary.

It wasn’t all that smooth actually.

We had planned to head down to Chili’s near Ashrafieh, but once again, it started pouring the moment it was time to knock off.

Pictures below shows SOMETHING busy mending my broken umbrella with a needle and thread so I won't get wet in the rain. *sweet*

And so we decided to walk over to Gemmayze Street (one of the hot spots for nightlife in the center of Beirut filled with restaurants, cafes, & pubs) for some Japanese, only to find the restaurant closed.

Along Gemmayze Street

The Japanese Restaurant-Soto, that was not opened

And finally, after walking up and down along Gemmayze a couple of times, we finally decided on the restaurant with the corniest name – LOTW. *hahahaha* uber corny right!

Nice decor + ambience

SOMETHING loves the map portraits hung on the wall (apparently similar to LOTR Middle Earth map or something like that *shrugz*)

The Menu (a wide selection of wings marinated in different styles) P.S. They even have SzeChuan Pepper flavour. Wonder how that's gonna taste like! ;p

We ordered ourselves 8 BBQ hot & spicy wings + a BBQ classic pork ribs to share (yes, I know, all very sinful food...it's also our day of indulgence) *bleh*


Corny signboard aside, the wings & ribs were really juicy and mouth-watering! *drool* I can't wait till the next day of indulgence to stuff myself with those yummy ribs again!