The collaborators behind restaurants in Vancouver and Toronto have Palestinian, Jewish and Israeli roots, and acknowledge they don’t always agree.
“Imagine 38 tastings for a falafel, and they would end up with like, blowups,” co-owner Fadi Hakim says.
The team behind Toronto’s Haifa Room now have a new venue, Bar Haifa, in downtown Vancouver.
It opened on Nov. 24, just a few weeks after attacks in Israel by Hamas and the start of the Israel-Hamas war.
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