Every day this week, our foreign correspondents will accept the challenge of finding the best meal possible in their city for the equivalent of €120. You would struggle to spend €120 on a meal in Damascus. Its total was just 525,000 Syrian pounds (about €39.18). We went to Beit Jabri, a restaurant in the courtyard of an old Damascene house. Of course the bill would have been more expensive if alcohol had been included: while it is possible to get alcohol in some restaurants, Beit Jabri, like many others in Syria, does not serve it.

Source: The Irish Times December 29, 2025 19:32 UTC