It's as if the sailboat of Barbar's dreams suddenly materialised in front of us.
This small innovation was the launch pad for the small bakery of Mohammad Ghaziri also known as Barbar.
Finally, a restaurant with seating space, a submarine sandwich joint and a butcher's shop completed the Barbar food armada.
Even certain names, like the French 'croisson' in the Barbar's breakfast menu, have been adapted to suit the Lebanese.
The fact that it stayed open through the most dramatic days of the war also contributed greatly to Barbar's popularity.
You can find anything and everything at Barbar's: take-away pizza, hamburgers, subs, chicken fried 'Kentucky style', fajita sandwich, Chinese chicken, donuts even.
The owner of a two-meter wide clock shop, for example, only surrendered half of his small space to Barbar, keeping the other half for himself.
'Mr Ghaziri travels a lot and brings us all kinds of new food ideas from abroad, ' says a Barbar manager when asked about their innovation policy.
Galvanized by these early successes, Barbar started a wild, ill-defined door to door expansion, moving in and occupying every little neighbouring shop whose owner was prepared to surrender.
Soon the little passageway in Hamra became known as Barbar Street and, between the cocktail shop and the sub sandwich restaurant, the street is now blocked by the sign: 'Road Open to Barbar Clients Only'.
Used in a room with elephant gray and even a bit of acid yellow, you get a palette that is sophisticated, a little Barbar, bonnie and bright without any superheroes, princesses or Disney characters (those will be brought in by the tenants themselves, no doubt).
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But this is also part of Barbar's charm with its strange, original architecture and its waiters running around the street from one restaurant to the other, shopping for the cocktail, the falafel plate and the baked entrees you've ordered while comfortably seated in the restaurant.
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