Zara Forest Grill

Turkish restaurant · Mariners Harbor

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"A few Saturday mornings ago, I made a grievous logistical error. There was a half-marathon in Brooklyn, where I live, and it was pouring rain. And yet I packed my entire family into our station wagon and set out for Staten Island: I had a reservation at a new Turkish restaurant, Zara Forest Grill, and a little traffic wasn’t going to stand in my way. The G.P.S. estimated forty-five minutes. An hour later, we’d barely gone a mile." - Hannah Goldfield

Zara Forest Grill Is Worth the Trip to Staten Island | The New Yorker
Photographs by Yael Malka for The New Yorker

1745 Forest Ave, Staten Island, NY 10303 Get directions

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