BHive Café — Restaurant in Ras Beirut

This place is truly a blessing to life in Hamra. It's massive, with three spacious floors and tons of work space. Always swarming with students. Truly more student-oriented, but young professionals can fit in easily too. And the garden space is a nice seating area for anybody. The coffee is a little generic in taste, which is kind of a bummer, but it's really fine. Maybe that's a personal taste thing. Sandwich and snack options are fantastic. They do fun events here all the time as well; it's exciting to have an experimental space that's trying new ways to bring people together.

Some miscellaneous things: there are outlets everywhere, which is an incredibly smart way to make working here actually plausible. There's a soundproof video call room downstairs, which is so unique and useful!

People tend to not respect the quiet policy in the downstairs workspace — which is obviously not the cafe's fault, but something to maybe expect ahead of time. The interior of the main space (ground floor, where the bar is) is a little drab and underserved compared to the garden. Way too much gray, and dim-ish lighting — an interior designer's touch could really help out.

One last thing I'd maybe recommend to the staff is mopping the restrooms a little more often. They're definitely not dirty; they just tend to be wet for some reason (this review is in April 2019, for reference, by the time you read this it's likely they'll have gotten into a good rhythm with keeping the place neat).

Thanks for...

Let me first describe it as a Starbucks ish cafe, we all know the type. Budget wise very good and understandable, guaranteed quality ofcourse, and coming from a coffee lover, the coffee is adorably good. Now about the area, it's a real quiet none busy street regarding it being in hamra which is a very busy and crowded town during the day mostly. But let's stick to the street where the B.hive is (I really like the name). About The cafe itself, well let's start with the underground floor where they have multiple conference rooms and a great work area, if you're job can be done from a laptop or phone, cause it's a good place to do a phonecall as well. Going to the main floor which is the ground and last floor first it has two outdoor terraces one on the entrance European way, and the other you can access when you get in the cafe it's really like a small private outdoor terrace if you can know what that means, but I like it, it's nice to sit there, oh ye and smokers beware not all the chairs outside are comfy so good luck, inside don't expect much from the space but it's really nice and comfortable, cozy I can say. People who go there are friendly and neat, so don't worry about it. More than that you should know about the wifi vouchers you get with your orders so don't be shy to ask for it. Support with a like if you can, and have...

Simply awesome. I tried a few places including antwork during my stay in Beirut, but this cafe is by far the best place to enjoy coffee and get some work done. Flat white at 44.000 and 2-hour super fast wifi access at 2.000 that you can extend as you wish. Power points are strategically located and plenty. Very clean and cozy. On a Sunday morning there were around 5-10 people, literally everyone on their laptop, one of them taking a business call outside in the terrace area. Super chill with lo-fi hip hop kinda music. There’s a separate workspace and a meeting room downstairs too. Open from early morning until past midnight.

If you’re looking for a place to focus like I was, don’t waste your money on antwork as it’s only open between 9am to 8pm, gets super noisy with people constantly chatting away (even in the quiet area and the staff don’t act on it) and it’s just way too expensive for...