Grape molasses
Thick, dark and naturally sweet, with no added sugar. 1 kg jar · $12
Under the vines
The terrace restaurant
Seasonal Lebanese dishes, fresh grape juice and views over the vines.
Lunch and dinner at the press house
Our terrace restaurant serves mezze, charcoal grills and mountain dishes made with produce from our own garden and neighbouring farms.
Cooked with our own molasses
Try lamb glazed with grape molasses, kibbeh with pomegranate and our molasses-and-tahini dessert.
From the press
Take a jar home
Fresh grape juice
Pressed every morning in season, nothing added. 1 litre · $5
Sun-dried raisins
Dried on our rooftop racks in the September sun. 500 g · $6
Life at the press house
Restaurant hours
Lunch and dinner from Tuesday to Sunday.
- Lunch · Tue–Sun
- 12:00 – 16:00
- Dinner · Tue–Thu
- 19:00 – 23:00
- Dinner · Fri–Sun
- 19:00 – 00:00
- Monday
- Closed
Press house tours
Tuesday to Sunday at 11:00 and 16:00: a guided walk through the old press, with a tasting of molasses, juice and raisins. No booking needed for small groups.
Things about grapes you didn't know
Grapes, molasses and the old ways
It takes a lot of grapes
About five kilos of grapes cook down into one kilo of molasses.
Colour comes from the skin
Almost all grape juice is clear; dark molasses gets its colour from the skins and slow cooking.
Molasses keeps for years
Well-cooked molasses needs no fridge and keeps for a year or more in a cool cupboard.
A winter breakfast
Mountain families mix molasses with tahini for a warming breakfast on cold mornings.
White earth clears the juice
A spoon of white clay settles the juice before it is cooked, the way our grandparents did it.
Raisins dry in a week
In the September sun, grapes on our rooftop racks become raisins in about seven days.
Sweet without sugar
Our molasses has no added sugar: all its sweetness comes from the grapes.
Old vines, small harvests
Our oldest vines give fewer grapes, but their fruit is the sweetest.
Book a table
Book a table for lunch, dinner or a family gathering.
Call us: +961 8 812 456