This fried, yet fluffy snack is an all-time favorite Egyptian street food. Made with dried fava beans, some say it's the precursor to falafel. Its name: ta'ameya. We're here at Zooba, an Egyptian ...

Twinkling brightly on the bustling 26th of July thoroughfare in Zamalek is a new restaurant called Zooba. Zooba is a traditional Egyptian female name and though the restaurant sign is bright neon ...

Nolita will soon be home to a popular Egyptian fast-casual restaurant serving street food — making it one of the few Manhattan restaurants dedicated to staples from the country. Zooba ...

I first noticed Zooba, an Egyptian fast-casual joint that opened its first New York City outpost last September, because of the design. The graphic to-go bags that line the entrance. The fun food ...

It’s such a cornerstone of the Egyptian culture. It’s the most affordable food in the country. As a result, it’s every person’s food,” Khalifa says. At Zooba, they offer ta’ameya six ways.

One could gather, from local purveyors, Colombian corn empanadas, Jamaican patties, fat Uzbek samsas, sugar-flecked Moroccan bastillas, and now, the Egyptian snack known as hawawshi. Zooba ...

Zooba opened in Nolita back in 2019 — the first U.S. location of the Cairo-based fast-casual restaurant with spins on Egyptian street food. This month, the Kenmare Street business has flipped to ...

Last September, the Egyptian fast-casual chain Zooba opened a branch in Lower Manhattan. Among Egyptian classics like taameya and hawawshi, one of the most popular dishes on the menu from the star ...

which is "every Egyptian's everyday breakfast ever," so that was too bad. But the "not hummus" Zooba Bessara, made from fava beans with tomatoes and olives for a little acid kick, was terrific.

Chris Khalifa, co-founder of Zooba, a popular local restaurant chain credited for making Cairo street food cool, claims the biggest trend of all is the resurgence of Egyptian food – with a ...