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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a suburb on the outskirts of Lisbon, Portugal Fatima and her two daughters Rana and Reem are preparing for a dinner party. Tonight, they will invite Portuguese friends into their home to taste home ...

Ask Jasmine Syrian Food owner Mohamad Alnouri what life was like in Syria before his family fled, and he practically shuts down. He still has family in Syria, and he’s still very much horror-struck ...

The word “fusion” gets tossed around a lot these days. Whether it’s Japanese food with a French twist or a melding of Latin cuisines, it’s not a new concept to mix and match ingredients and techniques ...

Beyond sausages, schnitzel and sauerkraut, German food doesn’t come with much name recognition. But since 2015, the face of German food has evolved in step with its newest citizens. Ten years ago, ...

One of the most civil places that people can meet is at the table. When people meet at the table for a meal they can — and should — put their everyday troubles and arguments aside for the moment. In ...

Dubai, Jan. 27 (SANA) Thirty-nine Syrian food companies are participating in Gulfood 2026, one of the world’s largest and most influential food and beverage exhibitions, held in Dubai, United Arab ...