Tarek Orfali
The Loud Brother, hot kitchen
The brothers
Three brothers, one stubborn family recipe.
We cook the way we grew up, with too many opinions and not enough quiet. Every plate is somebody's favourite childhood snack wearing a costume. We take it seriously and we refuse to act serious about it. If a dish makes you laugh before you taste it, we are doing the job right.
It started with three brothers who could never agree on lunch. One wanted his grandmother's stew, one wanted a giant dessert, one wanted to set something on fire for fun. So they built a bistro big enough for all three arguments at once. Tarek runs the hot side and yells the most. Sami bakes like the world is ending tomorrow. Nadim freezes everything and stays suspiciously calm. The food is Syrian at heart, ridiculous on the plate, and served like a family dinner that got out of hand.
Meet the management
Sami Orfali
The Sweet Brother, bakery and pastry
Nadim Orfali
The Calm Brother, cold counter and gelato
Tarek is the oldest, which he mentions roughly every nine minutes.
He runs the hot kitchen the way a conductor runs an orchestra that is mostly on fire. He learned to cook standing on a stool next to his mother, stealing tastes and getting his hand slapped, and he has been chasing that exact flavour ever since. He believes a bistro should feel like a kitchen at a family wedding, packed, noisy, a little chaotic, and impossible to leave. He is right about this and wrong about most other things.
Tarek Orfali
The Loud BrotherHow we got loud
2016
Three brothers open a tiny counter and immediately run out of bread.
2019
Sami builds a proper bakery so the bread stops being an emergency.
2022
Nadim adds a gelato counter and refuses to let the others name the flavours.
Now
One loud bistro, one very long queue, and zero quiet evenings.