Hg2: A Hedonist"s Guide to... A Hedonist"s guide to Beirut tackles one of the Middle East"s most vibrant and exciting cities.The continued reconstruction of the city after one of the most publicicsed and bloody conflicts of the 1980s has seen a surge in designer restaurants, clubs and bars with an appetite for nightlife unparralled elsewhere in the region. Ski in the morning, dive in the afternoon in the crystal clear waters of the Mediterranean before a little evening shopping in one of the many world class shops in the newly constructed downtown.