Every Saturday night, the narrow and scenic streets of Gemmayzeh and other parts of Ashrafieh fill with energetic young people, eager to hang out and socialize until light beckons a new day.

For many Lebanese living abroad, it is the distant echoes of their laughs that bring them back every summer.

On Monot Street in Ashrafieh an endless stream of people meander down the road, gradually diverging and dispersing into the various nightclubs that are located on it.

Of course, not everything about Beirut's nightlife is positive. In Gemmayzeh, Beirut's answer to New York's hip Alphabet city, the reveling has infuriated many residents.

Fed up with late-night noise spilling out of bars and clubs and infringing on their sleep, they have started a small uprising, complete with water bombings of bar patrons and even the occasional egging.

When asked which the best bar in Gemmayzeh is, a group of rowdy teenagers conspicuously rattled off the names of three clubs believed to be owned by the same shareholders.

However, they quickly added that no Saturday night in Beirut is complete until you've headed to B0-18.

This remarkable coffin-like structure is submerged into a cement lot in Karantina.

The club stays open until 7:00 am and is therefore highly descriptive of the capital's nightlife: never-ending.