Spring is in the air and you can feel it everywhere. The last month has been buzzing with the café refresh! It has been a flurry of emails and early morning installations, but we are almost ready to debut our new café. Steel frames are up and gorgeous oriental glass lanterns softly light the space. The eating area is surrounded by a fun, short wall of wood cubes that hold a gorgeous array of wines from Domaine des Tourelles, Ksara, Masaya, Domaine Wardy, a bunch of amazing Moroccan wines by Ouled Thaleb, as well as a myriad of Sahadi’s curated foodstuffs in a jewel of colors, patterns and containers. The ceiling is alive with grapevines and soft...

People always ask me how I came to love cooking and food in general.  Since I grew up in a food family and always had different, delicious, unique things to taste it comes naturally to me.  Being part of a Lebanese and Syrian family meant food was always the center of our household and continues to be.  Food is our love language. We entertain frequently and the meal is always central — whether it’s an Easter brunch, a Memorial Day BBQ, Birthday meze, or a Graduation blowout.  The first question we get is always, “What are you serving?”  For Women’s History Month, I thought I’d share a little more about the women who are often preparing the...

If there was one thing that 2020 taught us in business is that to be successful you have to constantly grow and change. When we opened our store and café in late 2019 we were looking to serve our customers in the store, café and bar. Just as we were approaching that, all of our worlds turned upside down. And because this is NYC, the rules constantly changed. You can open the café, then you cannot. You can have people indoors, then you cannot. That was the running theme of 2020. We went from a café to fulfillment center and slowly, slowly back to café.  We decided it wasn’t going to be about what we couldn’t do, but what we can...