This is Highly Recommend, a column dedicated to our very opinionated editors’ favorite things to eat, drink, and buy. I first noticed Zooba, an Egyptian fast-casual joint that opened its first New ...

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 ...

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 ...

The street food of Egypt arrives in fast-casual form in New York City today, courtesy a popular Cairo-based chain. Zooba was founded in Egypt in 2012 by Egyptian-American Chris Khalifa and chef ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...