July 27, 2012 Food & Drink » Features

From Beirut with love 

Beirut Café’s story is one of food, war and love against all odds.

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The love between Hana Lakkis and Fisal Houssein, owners of Beirut Café in St. Petersburg, is something out of a novel. Fisal is Syrian, Hana Lebanese. Fisal was in the Syrian army, though his family is Kurdish, from Turkey originally. In Syria,…

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