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The 12 Best Middle Eastern Restaurants In NYC By Khelil Bouarrouj Sept. 9, 2025 7:40 am EST

New York City is America's most cosmopolitan metropolis, with over 8 million people from around the world who speak some 800 languages between them. Naturally, a city this diverse produces a restaurant scene that offers everything from New York's best pizza places to innovative dishes rooted in Middle Eastern heritage. When it comes to the latter, recent years have seen an explosion in this particular gastronomy, with Middle Eastern flavors increasingly becoming central to the city's culinary identity.

In Manhattan and its neighboring boroughs, you're spoiled for choices whether it's Levantine, Egyptian, Palestinian, Yemeni, or Persian food you're looking fo

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