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 ...

Zooba, a fast-casual chain with six locations in Cairo, made a splashy debut in New York City over the weekend with the opening of a spacious restaurant on a busy Nolita corner. The emphasis here is ...

New York City would be a fine place to host a pot luck of the world’s great meat pies. One could gather, from local purveyors, Colombian corn empanadas, Jamaican patties, fat Uzbek samsas, ...

“Do you fancy taamiyah?” Dalia asked. “Always do,” I said with a smile as we both looked at the pleasant terrace of Zooba overlooking Road 9 in Maadi that is increasingly looking like an open food ...

In addition to a mural proudly displayed on the restaurant's exterior, Zooba has playful graphic design by Jessica Walsh, featuring pop art plays on Egyptian Arabic typefaces, hoping to capture the ...

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, which launched ...

At Nolita’s new Zooba, the first American outpost of the Cairo-based chain, koshari is a featured attraction. It combines chickpeas, lentils, rice, and three kinds of pasta with cumin-spiced tomato ...

Since it was founded in 2012, the Cairo-based chainlet Zooba has expanded to six locations (and counting) in the city. It was made in the fast-casual mode, clearly built for scale, but when co-founder ...

Pop philosophy is filled with proclamations that nothing, especially people, ever really changes. Five years ago I thought I had proven this quackery wrong, and had made a significant change. I moved ...