{"id":2279,"date":"2010-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/directory\/yabani"},"modified":"2010-06-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T00:00:00","slug":"yabani","status":"publish","type":"directory","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/directory\/yabani\/","title":{"rendered":"Yabani"},"content":{"rendered":"Who could forget the exceptionally modern setting of the original Yabani in Sodeco, architected by none other than Bernard Khoury? You\u2019d enter the lobby, only to descend in an elevator to a swanky spaceship-like dining venue. The only thing that could break your transfixed gaze was the other-worldly Japanese cuisine. <br \/>  <br \/>  In 2014, Yabani relocated to the ground floor of a residential complex just across from l\u2019Avenue du Parc, where the interior details are even more stunning than their predecessor\u2019s (check out the bathrooms!), and the food, equally exquisite. 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