Seven Global Palestinian Cafés Carrying Home in Every Bite
From Melbourne to Tokyo, Palestinian cafés preserve recipes that speak of memory, migration, and identity through food.
Palestinian cuisine is inseparable from the land it comes from. Olives pressed into oil, bread baked with zaatar, onions steeped in sumac. In exile, these flavours have travelled differently. They appear in crowded city cafés, in corners of Melbourne, London, or Manila, where Palestinians rebuild fragments of home through kitchens and coffee counters.
Each café carries its own expression of the original Palestinian memory, and some double as cultural centers, bookshops or workshops. Some others are small family businesses serving recipes preserved from Gaza or the Galilee. Together, they form a scattered map of Palestinian presence across the globe.
Here are seven from around the world to try the next time you travel...
Jerusalem Book Cafe
Sawa Sawa
Café Palestina
Kufiya Café
Beit Siti
Mishkah
The Palestinian Bakery
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