fooq's
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Fooq’s makes its patchwork menu seem effortless, seamlessly combining French, Italian, and Middle Eastern elements in a spectacular culinary experiment. The Persian salad of fennel, hard-boiled eggs, marbled potatoes, celery, olives, turmeric pickles, and Dijon lemon is the lightest entrance into the menu, which takes you to a bucatini amatriciana whose smoked pancetta permeates the dish and tints the sweet onions, San Marzano tomatoes, garlic chips, and chili flakes with a familiar taste that offsets the spice. The traditional Persian stew changes daily but always comes highly recommended, and with throw pillows and cookbook-covered coffee tables, the atmosphere at Fooq’s is just homey enough to push you to try something new.