Food & Drink in Anaheim

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Cuisine tagged shawarma/Mediterranean; OpenStreetMap's diet:halal=yes tag is a community-reported signal, not a formal certification, so this is recorded as self-described rather than authority-certified.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Cuisine tagged Arab/Lebanese/Mediterranean in OpenStreetMap. Part of the South Brookhurst Street plaza (512/518) within the Little Arabia corridor.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Cuisine tagged Arab in OpenStreetMap (mandi is a rice-and-meat dish associated with the Arabian Peninsula and Yemen). Part of the South Brookhurst Street plaza within the Little Arabia corridor.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Part of the South Brookhurst Street plaza within the Little Arabia corridor.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Name spelling taken as-tagged in OpenStreetMap ("Qahwah" is Arabic for coffee); the linked website spells it "Chapati" — worth confirming the exact name before this listing is claimed. Part of the South Brookhurst Street plaza within the Little Arabia corridor.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Named for Jenin, a city in the West Bank. Part of the South Brookhurst Street plaza within the Little Arabia corridor.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Palestinian-founded falafel and Mediterranean restaurant on Brookhurst St in the Little Arabia district, open since 1996. Zabihah lists it as staff-verified halal. Hours vary across compliant sources (roughly 8am–9pm); phone numbers also differ slightly between two compliant sources — worth confirming directly.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Egyptian restaurant and hookah lounge on Brookhurst St; the business's own site states it is '100% Halal.' A stale-looking third-party directory entry shows this address as closed, but the official site, delivery platforms, and the Little Arabia District directory all show it currently active — treated here as open, worth a confirmation call before relying on hours.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Middle Eastern bakery on Brookhurst St, opened 2002. Business's own site states all food is made from certified halal ingredients including in-house halal meat trimming. Founder is Lebanese per independent food journalism (Food GPS); the business's own site tells his emigration story but doesn't state his country of origin verbatim.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Syrian restaurant on Katella Ave in Anaheim's Little Arabia. Business's own TikTok account used the hashtag #halal on a promotional video — an indirect but first-party halal signal. No explicit ownership/heritage statement was found beyond the Syrian-cuisine self-description.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Iraqi restaurant on Ball Rd, known for masgouf-style grilled fish and traditional clay-oven (tannour) bread per LAist's Little Arabia food-tour coverage; the business's own delivery-platform branding self-describes more broadly as 'Mediterranean Cuisine.' No first-party halal or ownership claim was found; a halal tag on one third-party directory was not counted.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Lebanese restaurant and bakery on Brookhurst St, self-described on its own site as a 'Lebanese Restaurant & Bakery.' Phone and hours were not found on a compliant source this pass. A halal tag appears only on a third-party directory, not stated by the business itself.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Egyptian restaurant and cafe on Katella Ave, self-described on its own site as serving 'authentic Egyptian cuisine.' Currently operates as 'Cairo Restaurant & Cafe' (same address as an earlier-referenced 'Cairo Cafe'). No halal or ownership claim found on the official site.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Palestinian restaurant on Brookhurst St serving dishes including maqlouba, bamya, sheikh el mahshi, and mansaf, per Eat the World LA's interview-based coverage. No halal claim found on a compliant source. An owner name is reported by that same journalism but spelled inconsistently across secondary summaries, so it isn't included here pending direct confirmation.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Middle Eastern cafe and hookah lounge on Ball Rd. No first-party halal or ownership claim was found on a compliant source this pass; the business's own official site could not be reached to check further.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Included at the owner's request despite being Armenian-founded, not Arab-owned — same editorial approach as Kabul Kebab House (Afghan) and Bisbas Restaurant (Somali) elsewhere on this site. Founded in 1962 in Beirut, Lebanon by Vartkes Iskenderian, an Armenian family, per the business's own About page; relocated to Los Angeles in 1983–84 after the Lebanese Civil War. The business's own site describes its cuisine as 'fast-casual Armenian and Lebanese' — it makes no Arab-ownership claim of its own. No halal claim found.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Syrian family-owned restaurant with a dedicated halal page on its own site self-describing as 'Halal Mediterranean Food.' A second, Costa Mesa location referenced elsewhere appears closed per third-party listings; this Anaheim location is the one listed here.

Anaheim Hills, CA · Orange County

Mediterranean restaurant in the Anaheim Hills area. No halal or ownership claim was found on a compliant source; cuisine tag only, per mediikitchen.com.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Middle Eastern/French fusion pastry shop on Brookhurst St. Founder Maher Nakhal is described on the business's own site as a Syrian-born pastry chef from Damascus. No halal claim found.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Palestinian dessert cafe specializing in Nablus-style knafeh. Zabihah lists it as staff-verified halal. Hours vary slightly by source (roughly noon–9pm); phone number is sourced from a directory rather than the business's own site.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Iraqi cafe on N Brookhurst St, known for Iraqi tea and dried-black-lime iced tea per Eat the World LA's coverage; also referred to as 'Mar7aba Iraqi Cafe' in the Little Arabia District's own directory. No first-party ownership or halal claim was found.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Modern Middle Eastern dessert cafe on Brookhurst St, per its own site's self-description. Zabihah lists it as staff-verified halal. A third-party directory tags it 'Egyptian desserts' but this wasn't corroborated elsewhere, so cuisine is listed generally as Middle Eastern rather than a specific country.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Included at the owner's request despite being Armenian-owned, not Arab — same approach as Kabul Kebab House and Bisbas Restaurant elsewhere on this site. The business's own About page self-describes as 'the first Middle Eastern/Armenian bakery' in the region, opened in Glendale in 1983 with over 40 years of Armenian family baking tradition. Independently corroborated as Armenian by The Big Fat Armenian List and The California Courier. No halal or Arab-ownership claim is made or implied by this listing.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Egyptian hookah lounge and restaurant on Lincoln Ave, self-described on its own site as a 'hookah lounge and halal Mediterranean restaurant' serving Egyptian and Mediterranean cuisine. No explicit ownership/heritage statement beyond the cuisine description.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Mediterranean restaurant and hookah lounge on Brookhurst St, self-branded around 'Mediterranean Cuisine & Hookah' with live Middle Eastern music and entertainment. No halal or ownership claim found.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Hookah lounge on Brookhurst St, open since 2018 per its Better Business Bureau profile. Its address (830 S Brookhurst St) was independently re-confirmed this pass across four compliant sources after an earlier data-entry error listed 874 S Brookhurst St. No official website, halal claim, or ownership statement was found on a compliant source; its social media pages could not be accessed this session.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Hookah lounge on Brookhurst St. A public CA business filing lists officer names, which per this site's policy isn't treated as a confirmed Arab-ownership claim on its own. Phone number differs slightly between two compliant directories. No halal claim found.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Alcohol-free hookah lounge on Brookhurst St serving a fusion menu described by a neutral directory as combining Turkish coffee, Arabic teas, and Hispanic/Arabic/Mediterranean/American dishes. A third-party directory reports it was founded by named individuals, but per this site's policy that isn't treated as a confirmed first-party Arab-ownership claim. No halal claim found.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Hookah lounge and cafe on Brookhurst St offering Middle Eastern dishes (appetizers, baklava, knafeh) alongside Mexican menu items, per a neutral directory's description. Note: a separate, unrelated 'Hidden Café' also exists on E La Palma Ave elsewhere in Anaheim — this listing is for the Brookhurst location only. A third-party source names an owner, but per this site's policy that isn't treated as a confirmed first-party Arab-heritage claim without a statement from the business itself. No halal claim found.

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Included at the owner's request despite being Turkish, not Arab — same approach as Kabul Kebab House and Bisbas Restaurant elsewhere on this site. The business's own site describes 'a full Turkish family staffed kitchen led by Chef Abu Ali,' and independent food journalism (Eat the World LA) identifies the cuisine as from Hatay Province in southern Türkiye, a border region near Aleppo, Syria — which likely explains why it's sometimes mislabeled Palestinian on review-aggregator sites. A separate website and one directory tag it 'Palestinian,' but that claim is unattributed and couldn't be confirmed as referring to this same physical location; it previously occupied the space of Al Wadee, a Lebanese restaurant/bakery that closed. No qualifying first-party halal claim was found (only appears in page metadata/keywords).

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

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Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

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Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

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Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

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Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Anaheim, CA · Orange County

Anaheim, CA · Orange County