Third-culture
Levantine cuisine.

A small, elegant appetizer topped with microgreens and pomegranate seeds, served on a white plate, with various other dishes and a glass of red wine in the background.

963 is Syria’s country code. For our family it was the number we dialled to reach home. Today it’s a home of its own, in the heart of Berlin.

963

A culinary home for the in-between, where flavors, memories, and migrations are celebrated on the plate.

A wooden table set with a glass of red wine, a small plate with a piece of toasted bread topped with onions and herbs, assorted dishes including a salad with cherry tomatoes, small tacos, a glass of purple beverage, and a glass of red cocktail with lemon slice, all arranged with a black vase containing pink and white flowers.

FAMILY

Our story started with a family moving between countries, and a kitchen that came along every time. Today it’s rooted in Berlin. Our cooking is anchored in the Levant but not bound by its borders. We honour the recipes we grew up with and give ourselves the freedom to reinterpret them, so familiar flavours turn up where you don’t expect them.

The room follows the same idea: Levantine heritage and modern design side by side, with old and new sounds playing through it.

Ahlan wa sahlan!

It means welcome in Arabic, and it’s the spirit of 963.

A smiling, bald man with a beard wearing a black t-shirt standing against a black background.

Our food is made for sharing, because in the Levant that’s how a table says welcome.

Ribal Sibaee
Founder & Managing Partner, 963

  • Ribal Sibaee is the visionary behind 963, Berlin’s pioneering third-culture restaurant redefining Levantine cuisine through bold creativity, borderless dining, and emotional storytelling. With over two decades of experience as a global marketing executive—shaped at leading agencies like BBDO—Ribal’s instinct for brand-building and cultural resonance has always been driven by narrative integrity.

    Born to Syrian parents, raised in Saudi Arabia, and holding American nationality, Ribal’s identity is layered and cross-cultural. It’s this deeply personal lens that informs the soul of 963: a culinary home for the in-between, where flavors, memories, and migrations are celebrated on the plate.

    963 is more than a restaurant—it’s a statement. It breaks the mold with inventive dishes that honor heritage without being confined by it. Ribal’s approach to hospitality is deeply intentional: high-touch yet warm, poetic yet precise. Every element of 963—from its name (the Syrian country code) to its evolving, globally-influenced menu—tells a story of movement, belonging, and reinvention.

    After successfully turning around multiple F&B concepts across markets, Ribal founded Fortis Food & Beverage to house his creative ventures. But 963 remains his flagship, his heart project—a modern table where the diaspora is not only remembered, but reimagined.

A man with a beard smiling, wearing a gray chef's jacket with his arms crossed, standing against a black background.

Mohammad Karim
Executive Chef, 963

  • Mohammad Karim brings a rare and powerful duality to the kitchen: the soul of a chef and the spirit of a performer. As Executive Chef of 963, his cuisine draws not only from a deep-rooted Levantine heritage, but from a lifelong passion for the stage—resulting in dishes that are both technically masterful and emotionally resonant.

    Raised in a family where food was a sacred act of connection, Mohammad inherited a profound respect for Arabic culinary tradition. But it’s his background in theatre that gives his cooking its unmistakable signature: dramatic, layered, and expressive. At 963, each dish is composed like a scene—carefully staged, sensorially rich, and always anchored in narrative.

    For Mohammad, cooking is not just craft—it’s performance. Whether reimagining a street snack into fine dining form or infusing a forgotten childhood flavor into a contemporary plate, his creations invite guests into an experience that’s equal parts memory and spectacle.

    In a dining room where borders dissolve and identities converge, Mohammad’s food doesn’t just feed—it speaks. And at 963, it speaks in a voice that is proudly third-culture, boldly modern, and unmistakably his.