Tanoreen, an Essential Palestinian Restaurant, Is Expanding for the First Time

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.

A week that nods to local spirits — all over town

Suppose you were looking for another reason to celebrate the week before the holidays. In that case, it’s the first annual New York Bartender Week throughout New York State from November 18 to 24, with more than 140 local bars participating. Bartenders at restaurants and bars as diverse as Jazba and Eleven Madison’s Clemente Bar, Ma-De, Ilis, and Amor y Amargo are a part of it, creating drinks in honor of the week that showcase local spirits.

A walk-in-only Honduran spot for your radar

The Paulus Hook neighborhood in Jersey City has a new Latin American restaurant and bar with Honduran roots. Perquin (85 Morris Street, at Washington Street) opened last week from Bryan Girón (who cooked at Barbuto, Shukette) and Christopher Jones (Eataly, Barbuto, Carbone, Shukette). The walk-in-only restaurant serves dishes like potage de chicharron (split pea soup) with pork ragu and baleadas (a variation on pupusas)—what they’re calling their “Honduran street food.”

A Nashville chef team-up at an underground pizzeria

An underground Midtown pizzeria, See No Evil Pizza (210 W. 50th Street, at Broadway) — one of the food spots reanimating a once-barren 1 train station — is teaming up with Nashville chefs Erik Anderson (formerly Catbird Seat) and Josh Habiger (Bastion). Seatings are at 6 and 8 p.m. Thursday, November 21, and cost $80 for antipasti, pizzas, and wine.