Since Taboule Café closed its doors on Turkey Lake Road back in 2012, there really hasn’t been a restaurant dedicated to the cuisine of Syria. The café’s tisiyeh, a Syrian breakfast staple of pita ...

When Mohamad Orfali, the head chef and co-owner of Orfali Bros. Bistro in Dubai, received an email in January 2022 from the World’s 50 Best Restaurants group, he thought it was junk mail. He had to ...

TORONTO — The interior of Soufi’s, a fast-casual restaurant in downtown Toronto, is tailor-made for Instagram. There are white subway tiles, vintage photographs, a chalkboard menu and a selection of ...

The popularity of the humble street food is a testament to cultural survival for the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who ...

Nesrin had been pounding garlic all morning, but the pestle’s blunt thwack grew louder when she started talking about Syria. From 2010 to 2014, she marched in the revolution there. “Everyone conspired ...

Berlin’s businesses can’t get enough of Salma Al Armarchi’s home-cooked Syrian food. Food was always a hobby for Salma, 53. Now a refugee in Berlin, the Syrian cook found her culinary skills in such ...

Aziz Habesh knows his way around kibbeh. Sitting in Vezir Han, in the shadow of Istanbul’s Fatih Mosque, the maitre d’ begins to list the types on offer at the Syrian restaurant. He starts counting on ...

A new Syrian restaurant has opened for business in Bluemont, serving traditional cuisine straight from the kitchen of a Damascus native. Alshami Restaurant offers a wide array of appetizers, salads, ...

We explore the flavors of Syrian-style shawarma in Los Angeles, discovering the spices, techniques, and delicious twists that ...

A quick Yelp search yields a plethora of Mediterranean restaurants around Dallas. Narrowing that long list down to Middle Eastern cuisine and then finally focusing on just Syrian fare still yields a ...

When war broke out in Syria in 2011, Abdulkareem Mahmoud had to leave his life and his family restaurant behind. He'd grown up in the industry, starting at age 8 when he began helping his father in ...