This Award-Winning Detroit Chef Is Embracing His Palestinian Identity | Eater Detroit

"A Moroccan-influenced neighborhood restaurant founded by Omar Anani that earned Eater Detroit’s 2019 Restaurant of the Year recognition. The spot became a platform for its chef-owner—an acclaimed, prolific food-truck operator, two-time James Beard Award finalist, and recent Chopped contestant—and after a temporary hiatus is preparing to reopen while its founder continues using the restaurant and related events to lift up his Palestinian heritage. Early in its planning the menu leaned Moroccan partly at his family’s urging, but the operation has long intersected with community work and activism, and the reopening will be accompanied by continued pop-ups and programming that spotlight Palestinian recipes and causes." - Serena Maria Daniels