Tanoreen, a cozy gem in Bay Ridge, serves generous Mediterranean-Middle Eastern meals with a vibes that invite sharing and community—don’t skip the must-try knafeh!
"A vibrant borough known for its diverse culinary scenes, including Rawia and Jumana Bishara's Tanoreen, a restaurant celebrating Palestinian cuisine and culture." - Rebecca Flint Marx
"Palestinian restaurant Tanoreen features a $45 lunch or a $60 dinner. For lunch, it’s one appetizer and one entrée from the regular or specials menu and for dinner it’s an appetizer, entree, and dessert." - Melissa McCart, Nadia Chaudhury
"Tanoreen, a trailblazing Palestinian restaurant that has been a staple of Bay Ridge for 26 years, is expanding for the first time. Rawia and Jumana Bishara, the mother-daughter owners, will open a fast-casual version of Tanoreen at the Time Out Market food hall in Dumbo on November 21, which first opened on the waterfront in 2019. In 2021, former Eater critic Ryan Sutton reviewed the restaurant calling it “still a hit” and remarked on the way Tanoreen has paved a path for a new wave of Palestinian restaurants that have since opened, including Qanoon in Chelsea, and several locations of Ayat and Al Badawi that have grown around the city." - Emma Orlow
"The Deal: $45 Lunch, $60 Dinner You should be eating more Levantine food in Bay Ridge. If it’s been awhile since you and some friends visited this chandelier-lit, Palestinian American-run restaurant, their lunch or dinner deals are the perfect excuse to go back. The Restaurant Week menu isn't online yet, but everything here—particularly the creamy dips, musakhan loaded with caramelized onions, and of course their unforgettable knafeh—is delicious." - bryan kim, willa moore, sonal shah, neha talreja, will hartman, molly fitzpatrick
"Rawia Bishara’s Palestinian restaurant in Bay Ridge offers a variety of fine Middle Eastern sweets, including piney sahlab custard, dense semolina-coconut harissa cake, and anise-y macaroni cookies. But if you’re here for dessert, chances are, you’re here for the knafeh, a giant slab of baked sweet cheese covered in filo and soaked in aromatic orange blossom syrup. Half the fun is watching a server slice it tableside and stretch out the cheese like a pizzaiolo. A small order feeds two to three people; a large order feeds four to six." - Eater Staff, John Tsung
