Saba
Restaurant · Arlington ·
Authentic Middle Eastern street food, delicious, fresh, and consistent
Authentic Middle Eastern street food, delicious, fresh, and consistent
"Chef Alon Shaya and his Shaya Barnett Foundation, working with co-chef and business partner Zach Engel and his foundation, are staging a big fundraiser on October 10 at Saba to benefit a new culinary lab at the New Orleans Career Center; the event features an over-the-top four-course menu with grape-leaf-wrapped lemonfish and Shaya’s famed blue crab hummus, and tickets start at $400." - Clair Lorell
"Chef Alon Shaya is serving Middle Eastern family-style menus to-go with curbside pickup; call or order online via Toast." - Clair Lorell
"Saba is listed as one of the food vendors participating in the Backyard BBQ benefitting the Crescent City Farmers Market at Central City BBQ." - Stephanie Carter
"As the partner to Safta, I noted that Saba connects to the same family narrative through portraits of the couple’s grandfathers hanging above the hostess stand, and it shares design and operational similarities with Safta—most notably a long bar and wood-fired pita ovens visible from the dining room." - Stephanie Carter
"Opening his first restaurant since the contentious split with John Besh’s restaurant group, Saba was launched after Alon Shaya settled a legal fight over his surname; he describes the split as one of the most hurtful moments of his life but also “a blessing” that allowed time to reflect. At Saba he has instituted cultural training for everyone in the organization focused on diversity, harassment, and discrimination, and introduced quality-of-life benefits such as discounted health-club memberships, two consecutive days off for workers, and other employee-focused perks." - Stephanie Carter