Tanoreen

Tanoreen is Chef Rawia Bishara’s love letter to the traditional family-style Palestinian and Middle Eastern dishes she grew up eating. After years of throwing dinner parties and teaching friends how to cook, she opened Tanoreen in 1998 as a small ten-table Mediterranean restaurant in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, specializing in Palestinian food. It’s since expanded to a larger location, Bishara has published two cookbooks and been nominated for a James Beard Award, and her daughter, Jumana, has come on board as a partner.

Bishara’s cooking celebrates tradition while also embracing change. It’s a blend of classical Middle Eastern cooking with delicious multicultural aromas stirred through, inspired by Bishara’s mother as well as her time traveling abroad and living in New York. Tanoreen has been consistently hailed as one of the very best restaurants in all of NYC, and for the first time, it’s greatest hits are being delivered nationwide, from mezze platters to lamb baked eggplant to their iconic cheese knafeh for dessert!