ABOUT US

We are a team of refugees & immigrants with an unparalleled passion for the craft of cooking. We bring the best global home cooking from around the world to you.

Our Chefs

Meet the heroes behing it all

Chef Nasrin
Iran
Chef Diaa
Syria
Chef Lebjulet
Venezuela
Chef Dhua
Iraq
Chef Mariama
Senegal
Chef Shanthi
Sri Lanka

how we

started

The hummus mission

When Manal arrived to New York in 2013, she was impressed with the quality and diversity of peanut butter, but disappointed with the Hummus…
She started making her own based on a family recipe, which her friends started raving about. Her brother, Wissam, saw the opportunity there and said: “we should sell it!”. And so they went on a mission to find a hummus as good as their grandmother’s – that’s how they came to think of refugees being resettled in NY as an excellent community to find someone just like her.

united by flavor

The idea evolved since: although Manal and Wissam both love hummus and could eat it all day everyday, they knew there were endless other recipes around the world they’d like to discover and share. That’s where Chef Juan jumped on board, changing from his usual Michelin-star level kitchens to a more modest but much more exciting one, and helped them bring the idea to a boil

our founders

Manal Kahi
Co-founder & CEO
Wissam Kahi
Co-founder
Juan Suarez de Lezo
Culinary Advisor

OUR TEAM

Tahir Jahangir
Job title
Scarlet
Customer Experience Manager
Sarujen Sivakumar
Operations Manager
Assy Barry
550 Madison Store Manager
Armita
Staff
Arta Kasra
Staff