Tanoreen

"This Mediterranean-style Middle Eastern restaurant run by Rawia Bishara serves home-style dishes based on her mother’s old-world recipes like ground lamb meatballs." Full review

"It's "worth the trip" to this "out-of-the-way" Bay Ridge "find" for "artfully prepared", "beautifully seasoned" Med–Middle Eastern home cooking." Full review

"Ms. Bishara’s translation of Middle Eastern cooking has Mediterranean accents, and occasional North American ones from her decades in the United States." Full review

"Tanoreen’s menu lists more than 50 items and you can’t go wrong with the selection." Full review

"Since 1998, Tanoreen—a cult destination in Bay Ridge—has been alone at the top above other Middle Eastern establishments, a standard bearer in a category that has few." Full review

"The Middle Eastern menu offers traditional Levantine breakfasts like vegetable fritters, hummus with meat, and fool madamas-tender fava beans dressed with olive oil, lemon, and garlic." Full review

"Certain dishes--like the house special fetti--aren't much to look at, but you'd be shortsighted to let aesthetics drive you away." Full review

"Is this place so much better than others like it that it’s worth the long trip? We say yes, with a caveat. Yes, if you appreciate Middle Eastern or Mediterranean food." Full review

"Bishara’s cooking combines Middle Eastern techniques with Mediterranean flavors. But she takes cues from other cuisines, too." Full review

"Small Middle Eastern with big flavors."